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Residential Windstorm Insurance Plan Act of 1996

Introduced: September 19, 1996 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 3, 1996
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Sep 19, 1996
Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
Sep 19, 1996
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 19, 1996
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Residential Windstorm Insurance Plan Act of 1996 - Instructs the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to study the advisability and feasibility of establishing a Residential Windstorm Insurance Program designed to provide windstorm insurance to residential property owners unable to obtain coverage in the private market. Delineates Program contents and considerations.

Requires the Director to: (1) submit to specified congressional committees study conclusions and estimated Program costs; and (2) enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a feasibility study regarding the establishment of a Federal earthquake insurance program modeled after the "Write Your Own" Program under the National Flood Insurance Program.

Directs the Comptroller General, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Commerce to report to the Congress the results of a joint study evaluating the public policy issues associated with conferring favorable Federal tax treatment to multiyear insurance reserves set aside by private insurers for future catastrophic natural disasters.

What's happening now October 3, 1996

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3