US Congress House Bill 5846 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on July 17 2018 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-07-17 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Pending: Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

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.

Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act

Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]

Rep. Mark Sanford [R-SC]

Rep. Sean Duffy [R-WI]

Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-07-17	Senate	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
2018-07-16	House	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2018-07-16	House	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6224-6225)
2018-07-16	House	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5846.
2018-07-16	House	Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6224-6226)
2018-07-16	House	Mr. Barletta moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2018-07-16	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 634.
2018-07-16	House	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 115-820.
2018-06-27	House	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
2018-06-27	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2018-06-27	House	Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Discharged.
2018-05-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
2018-05-16	House	Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
2018-05-16	House	Introduced in House

SB2862 (Related) 2018-05-16 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
HB6402 (Related) 2018-07-17 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5846/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr5846/BILLS-115hr5846ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr5846/BILLS-115hr5846rh.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr5846/BILLS-115hr5846eh.pdf