To amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to allow for the consideration of private flood insurance for the purposes of applying continuous coverage requirements, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-1666
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-14]
Introduced: 2019-03-11
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance

Floods and storm protection
Latest action: action_date: 2019-03-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-03-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p> <p>This bill directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to consider any period during which a property was continuously covered by either private flood insurance or flood insurance offered through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to be a period of continuous insurance coverage, including for the purposes of NFIP subsidies.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1666 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 11, 2019 Ms. Castor of Florida (for herself and Mr. Luetkemeyer ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to allow for the consideration of private flood insurance for the purposes of applying continuous coverage requirements, and for other purposes.

1. Effect of Private Flood Insurance Coverage on Continuous Coverage Requirements Section 1308 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 ( 42 U.S.C. 4015 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (n) Effect of Private Flood Insurance Coverage on Continuous Coverage Requirements For purposes of applying any statutory, regulatory, or administrative continuous coverage requirement, including under section 1307(g)(1), the Administrator shall consider any period during which a property was continuously covered by a flood insurance policy, either offered through the national flood insurance program or private market, that was used to satisfy the requirements under section 102(a) of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 ( 42 U.S.C. 4012a(a) ) to be a period of continuous coverage. .