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HR 6614 112th Congress House Finance and Financial Sector Administrative remedies Disaster relief and insurance Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Floods and storm protection Land use and conservation Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Fire-Damaged Home Rebuilding Act of 2012

Introduced: November 29, 2012 Introduced by: Matsui, Doris O. Democratic · California See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 20, 2012
Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
Nov 29, 2012
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Nov 29, 2012
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Fire-Damaged Home Rebuilding Act of 2012 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to prohibit certain mandatory land use and control measures in an area from being considered to be in compliance with land management criteria for participation in the flood insurance program unless those measures authorize the granting of a variance from compliance for a residential structure located in an area having special flood hazards but which is substantially damaged, instead, by non-flood related causes.

Requires such a variance to allow for the repair and restoration of the structure to its predamaged condition on its original location without any higher elevation, but only if its owner at the time of the damage repairs and restores the structure for continued occupancy.

Allows a variance to be granted only by the appropriate regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), subject to specified considerations.

Requires chargeable flood insurance premium rates for a residential structure granted such a variance to equal, after repair and restoration, the rates which would have been applicable if the structure had not been substantially damaged, repaired, and restored under the variance.

What's happening now December 20, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.

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