Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act
Latest action · Jul 17, 2018 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 16, 2018
- Passed HouseJul 16, 2018
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act
(Sec. 2) 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 committed to open space use in perpetuity (buyout practices), and (2) ways to streamline the buyout practices to provide more timely assistance.
The study must consider and analyze:
- current and future trends with respect to repetitive loss structures and severe repetitive loss structures that are insured under the National Flood Insurance Program;
- buyout practices, including the socioeconomic status of recipients of buyouts under buyout programs and examples of successful buyout programs, including best practices employed;
- administrative, financial, or temporal constraints that may impede the timely acquisition of properties under a buyout program;
- potential options, methods, and strategies to address such constraints;
- the ecological, financial, and flood risk reduction benefits that buyout practices provide;
- an assessment of how FEMA may use buyout programs to reduce future flood disaster recovery costs; and
- a cost-benefit analysis of mitigation and buy-out projects and programs.
The GAO shall submit to Congress and FEMA a report on the buyout practices study and the feasibility of FEMA establishing an alternative buyout program.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on May 16, 2018.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-SC | Mark Sanford | Original | May 16, 2018 |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Original | May 16, 2018 |
| R-WI | Sean P. Duffy | Original | May 16, 2018 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred May 16, 2018Markup Jun 27, 2018Reported Jul 16, 2018 |
| Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee | Referred May 17, 2018Discharged Jun 27, 2018 | |
| Senate | Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee | Referred Jul 17, 2018 |
Actions 14
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 17, 2018Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
- Jul 16, 2018Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 115-820.
- Jul 16, 2018Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 634.
- Jul 16, 2018Mr. Barletta moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Jul 16, 2018Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6224-6226)
- Jul 16, 2018DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5846.
- Jul 16, 2018Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6224-6225)
- Jul 16, 2018Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jun 27, 2018Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Discharged.
- Jun 27, 2018Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jun 27, 2018Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- May 17, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
- May 16, 2018Introduced in House
- May 16, 2018Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E1021 | Earl Blumenauer D-OR | Jul 17, 2018 |
| House | Debate and remarks H6224–H6226Text printed H6224 | Dina Titus D-NV, Lou Barletta R-PA, Mark Sanford R-SC, Peter A. DeFazio D-OR | Jul 16, 2018 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Jul 12, 2018H.R. 5846, Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on June 27, 2018
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 164, no. 80, May 16, 2018, page H4139.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2862 | Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act | Identical bill | May 16, 2018 |
| HR 6402 | National Flood Insurance Program Extension and Enhanced Consumer and Community Protections Act of 2018 | Related bill | Jul 17, 2018 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study regarding the buyout practices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act
- Short Titles as Passed House
- Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Emergency Management.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 17, 2018Referred in Senate
- Jul 16, 2018Engrossed in House
- Jul 16, 2018Reported in House
- May 16, 2018Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
