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H.R.5846 - Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act115th Congress (2017-2018) |

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Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] (Introduced 05/16/2018)
Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure | Senate - Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Committee Reports: H. Rept. 115-820
Latest Action: Senate - 07/17/2018 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.  (All Actions)

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Introduced in House (05/16/2018)

Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act

This bill directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study to assess: (1) the efficacy of practices or programs under which the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides assistance to state and local governments to acquire flood-damaged properties (buyout practices), and (2) ways to streamline the buyout practices. The study must consider and analyze certain factors, such as current and future trends regarding repetitive loss structures that are insured under the National Flood Insurance Program and constraints on buyout practices.

The GAO shall submit to specified congressional committees and FEMA a report on the buyout practices study and the feasibility of FEMA establishing an alternative buyout program.