March 12, 2013
A group of U.S. representatives from New York is proposing a bill that would stretch out the National Flood Insurance Program’s premium increase timeline. On Monday, U.S. Reps. Michael G. Grimm (R-N.Y.), Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), Eliot …
July 9, 2012
President Barack Obama has signed the “Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2012” into law. The law extends the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for five years and makes reforms to the program. The Senate and House passed …
February 14, 2012
Forty-one U.S. senators from both parties have signed a letter urging the Senate to schedule a vote on legislation to reform and extend the federal flood insurance program “as expeditiously as possible in February or very soon thereafter.” U.S. Sen. …
May 13, 2011
As flood waters continued rising along the Mississippi River, a House committee yesterday unanimously approved bipartisan legislation to extend the federal flood insurance program for five years and introduce financial reforms of the debt-ridden program. The legislation (HR 1309) approved …
April 7, 2011
A House subcommittee yesterday approved a bipartisan bill to reauthorize and reform the nation’s flood insurance program. The 10 Republicans and eight Democrats on the Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee approved the bill on a voice vote. The legislation …
March 30, 2011
The House subcommittee preparing a flood insurance reform measure will have its second hearing on April 1 to hear testimony from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate. Fugate was unable to be at the first hearing on March …