To establish a grant program for preparing and responding to New World screwworm outbreaks, and for other purposes.
Summary
HR9377 is a bill to establish a grant program for New World screwworm outbreak preparedness and response. It was referred to the House Agriculture Committee on June 18, 2026, an early procedural step. The bill does not specify an authorized funding amount, and actual appropriations would require separate legislation. The market impact on agriculture companies is negligible at this stage.
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Key Takeaways
- 1.HR9377 is in earliest legislative stage — referred to committee, no hearing or markup scheduled.
- 2.No authorized funding amount specified; actual spending requires a separate appropriations process.
- 3.No direct revenue impact on any publicly traded agriculture company identified in the current data.
Market Implications
No market implications from HR9377 at this stage. The agriculture sector tickers listed in the financial data are not affected. The bill is a procedural step with no funding mechanism, no contract awards, and no regulatory mandate targeting any public company. Investors should monitor for committee action or a companion bill in the Senate before reassessing, but the current impact is zero.
Full Analysis
On June 18, 2026, Rep. Vasquez (D-NM) introduced HR9377, a bill to create a grant program for preparing and responding to New World screwworm outbreaks. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Agriculture, its only committee assignment. With 13 cosponsors and a single referral, this is an early-stage, limited-scope authorization bill. No specific funding amount is stated in the bill text provided, meaning any eventual program would require a subsequent appropriations bill to allocate actual dollars. As an authorization bill that has not yet been marked up, voted on, or funded, it poses no near-term revenue impact on publicly traded agriculture companies. The agriculture sector tickers listed in the financial data — $DE, $CF, $CTVA, $BG, $ADM, $FMC, $MOS — are large-cap companies with annual revenues ranging from $4.5B to $61.3B. Even if a screwworm grant program were eventually funded, the amounts would be a tiny fraction of these companies' revenues, and no specific contractual mechanism ties this bill to any of them. No historical precedent data is available for similar biosecurity bills affecting these specific companies.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CALIFORNIA: $1.7B Department of Agriculture Grant
ADMINISTRACION DE DESARROLLO SOCIOECONOMICO DE LA FAMILIA: $2.5B Department of Agriculture Federal Award
NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: $1.5B Department of Agriculture Grant
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES CALIFORNIA: $1.2B Department of Agriculture Grant
HEALTH & HUMAN SVC COMMN TX: $532M Department of Agriculture Grant
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & CONSUMER SERVICES FLORIDA: $677M Department of Agriculture Grant
NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION: $625M Department of Agriculture Grant
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & CONSUMER SERVICES FLORIDA: $986M Department of Agriculture Grant
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