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H.R. 5846: Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act

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H.R. 5846: Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act

115th Congress · introduced 2018-05-16 · Emergency Management · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2018-05-16 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act

Plain summary

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.

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Official text

Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] · 3 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 5846, Promoting Flood Risk Mitigation Act (2018-07-12)

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Record fed-us-cong115-hr5846 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115