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HR 2728 106th Congress House Emergency Management Authorization Cost effectiveness Dikes (Engineering) Disaster relief Economics and Public Finance Federal-local relations Federal-state relations Finance and Financial Sector Flood control Flood damage prevention Flood insurance Floods Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government trust funds Grants-in-aid Housing and Community Development Insurance premiums Insurance rates

Two Floods and You Are Out of the Taxpayers' Pocket Act of 1999

Introduced: August 5, 1999 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 10, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
Aug 5, 1999
Referred to the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services.
Aug 5, 1999
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Two Floods and You Are Out of the Taxpayers' Pocket Act of 1999 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in awarding grants for mitigation activities, to give priority to properties for which repetitive flood insurance claim payments have been made (repetitive claim properties). Authorizes the Director to waive mitigation assistance limits when the State or community has repetitive claim properties and such waiver is cost-effective and in the best interests of the National Flood Insurance Fund.

Increases amounts credited to the National Flood Mitigation Fund from the National Flood Insurance Fund, such amounts to be used only for repetitive claim properties.

Extends through FY 2004 the authority to enter into flood insurance contracts and the authorization of appropriations for the national flood insurance program.

Provides chargeable national flood insurance premium rates for: (1) repetitive claim properties; and (2) certain coastal and river properties leased from the Government. Authorizes annual premium increases with respect to such properties.

Amends the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 to prohibit Federal disaster relief assistance from being used for repair, replacement, or restoration of any property in the area for which: (1) repetitive claim payments have been made; and (2) Federal mitigation assistance has been offered to, but refused by, the property owner.

Authorizes the Director to provide for funding for mitigation actions that reduce flood damages to repetitive claim properties, under certain conditions. Provides funding for such assistance from the National Flood Insurance Fund.

What's happening now September 10, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.

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