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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1144 

To amend the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 to improve mapping under the National Flood Insurance Program, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 11, 2019 

Mr. RUBIO introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 

A BILL 

To amend the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act 

of 2012 to improve mapping under the National Flood 

Insurance Program, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Flood Insurance Rate 

5 Map Interagency Technology Act of 2019’’ or the ‘‘FIRM 

6 IT Act of 2019’’. 

7 SEC. 2. NATIONAL FLOOD MAPPING PROGRAM. 

8 (a) SHARING AND USE OF MAPS AND DATA; INCLU9 SION OF CADASTRAL FEATURES IN RATE MAPS.—Section 


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1 100216(b) of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform 

2 Act of 2012 (42 U.S.C. 4101b(b)) is amended— 

3 (1) in paragraph (1)— 

4 (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

5 ‘‘and’’ at the end; 

6 (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the 

7 period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

8 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

9 ‘‘(D) consult and coordinate with the Sec10 retary of Defense, the Director of the United 

11 States Geological Survey, and the Adminis12 trator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

13 Administration to obtain the most up-to-date 

14 maps and other information of those agencies, 

15 including information relating to topography, 

16 water flow, watershed characteristics, and any 

17 other issues that are relevant to identifying, re18 viewing, updating, maintaining, and publishing 

19 National Flood Insurance Program rate 

20 maps.’’; and 

21 (2) in paragraph (3)— 

22 (A) in subparagraph (A), by redesignating 

23 clauses (i) and (ii) as subclauses (I) and (II), 

24 respectively, and adjusting the margins accord25 ingly; 


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1 (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) 

2 through (E) as clauses (i) through (v), respec3 tively, and adjusting the margins accordingly; 

4 (C) in the matter preceding clause (i), as 

5 so redesignated, by striking ‘‘Administrator 

6 shall include—’’ and inserting the following: 

7 ‘‘Administrator— 

8 ‘‘(A) shall include—’’; 

9 (D) in subparagraph (A)(v), as so redesig10 nated, by striking the period at the end and in11 serting ‘‘; and’’; and 

12 (E) by adding at the end the following: 

13 ‘‘(B) may include— 

14 ‘‘(i) any relevant information that is 

15 obtained under paragraph (1)(D); and 

16 ‘‘(ii) cadastral features, including, for 

17 each cadastral feature— 

18 ‘‘(I) the associated parcel identi19 fication data for that feature; and 

20 ‘‘(II) to the maximum extent 

21 practicable, using public and private 

22 sector address data, the address of 

23 that feature.’’. 


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1 (b) FORMAT OF RATE MAPS.—Section 100216(c)(2) 

2 of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 

3 2012 (42 U.S.C. 4101b(c)(2)) is amended— 

4 (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 

5 the end; 

6 (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period 

7 at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

8 (3) by adding at the end the following: 

9 ‘‘(D) not later than 5 years after the date 

10 on which the National Geodetic Survey com11 pletes the modernization of the National Spatial 

12 Reference System in 2022, updated to conform 

13 with the geospatial data provided by that sys14 tem; and 

15 ‘‘(E) spatially accurate in accordance with 

16 the common protocols for geographic informa17 tion systems under section 216 of the E-Gov18 ernment Act of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501 note).’’. 

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