GROW SMART Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 3737 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3737 To amend the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 to provide financial and technical assistance to eligible entities for the conduct of innovative approaches to voluntary water partnership agreements among multiple water users and projects conducted by individual agricultural entities, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 29, 2026 Mr. Padilla introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 to provide financial and technical assistance to eligible entities for the conduct of innovative approaches to voluntary water partnership agreements among multiple water users and projects conducted by individual agricultural entities, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Growing Resilient Operations from Water Saving and Municipal-Agricultural Reciprocally-beneficial Transactions Act'' or the ``GROW SMART Act''. SEC. 2. PROJECT PLANNING IN SUPPORT OF INNOVATIVE VOLUNTARY WATER SHARING AGREEMENTS AND VOLUNTARY USE OF WATER-THRIFTY CROPS. Title II of the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 (43 U.S.C. 2221 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 201 the following: ``SEC. 201A. PROJECT PLANNING IN SUPPORT OF INNOVATIVE VOLUNTARY WATER SHARING AGREEMENTS AND VOLUNTARY USE OF WATER-THRIFTY CROPS TO PREPARE FOR AND RESPOND TO DROUGHT. ``(a) In General.--The Secretary, in order to prepare for and respond to drought conditions