Wildfire Insurance Coverage Study Act of 2024
Latest action · Jul 18, 2024 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 489.
Progress
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- IntroducedFeb 26, 2024
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Wildfire Insurance Coverage Study Act of 2023
This bill requires reports regarding wildfire risk and damage. Specifically, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) must report on trends in wildfire declarations, mitigation practices, state and federal programs regarding wildfire risk, and the need for a national map of wildfire risks.
The GAO must also report on (1) the availability and cost of wildfire insurance coverage for homes and commercial property, (2) state regulatory responses to increasing costs of coverage, and (3) impediments to private wildfire insurance coverage.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 18, 2024Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 489.
- Jul 18, 2024Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 118-589.
- Feb 29, 2024Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Feb 29, 2024Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 47 - 2.
- Feb 26, 2024Introduced in House
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector.
- Congressional oversight
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fires
- Geography and mapping
- Government Accountability Office (GAO)
- Government studies and investigations
- Insurance industry and regulation
- State and local finance
- Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 18, 2024Reported in House
- Feb 26, 2024Introduced in House
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