Flood History Information Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-5256
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Luria, Elaine G. [D-VA-2]
Introduced: 2021-09-14
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Latest action: action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-09-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Flood History Information Act of 2021 </strong></p> <p>This bill provides for the sharing of National Flood Insurance Program policy and claim information. Specifically, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) may share this data through an agreement with certain private insurance providers for the purposes of policy underwriting, establishing premium rates, and adjusting claims. Additionally, FEMA must provide specified flood insurance information to a purchaser, lessee, or current owner of a property upon request. </p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5256 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 14, 2021 Mrs. Luria (for herself, Mr. Garbarino , and Ms. Dean ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To provide for the disclosure and sharing of certain policy and claims information under the National Flood Insurance Program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Flood History Information Act of 2021 . 2. Data exchange program Section 1313 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 ( 42 U.S.C. 4020 ) is amended— (1) by inserting after the section enumerator the following: (a) Availability of flood insurance information .— ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsections: (b) Data exchange program (1) In general The Administrator shall disclose policy and claims information described in paragraph (2) to an insurance company, as such term is defined in subsection (f), if such insurance company has entered into a data sharing agreement with the Administrator pursuant to paragraph (3). (2) Data eligible for sharing The Administrator shall disclose the following claims and policy information, obtained in connection with a flood insurance policy made available under this title or through a data sharing agreement executed pursuant to paragraph (3), pursuant to paragraph (1): (A) The location of the insured property, by address and latitude and longitude). (B) Amount of coverage in force. (C) Dates of loss. (D) The amount paid on claims. (E) Any other claims and policy information the Administrator determines necessary and appropriate. (3) Data sharing agreement A data sharing agreement entered into pursuant to paragraph (1) shall include— (A) the terms and conditions under which insurance companies may use, share, store, and account for the data, which shall at minimum include provisions ensuring that— (i) the insurance company may only use information provided under the agreement for the purposes of underwriting, establishing premium rates, and adjusting claims; and (ii) the insurance company may not use the information provided as part of the agreement for marketing purposes; (B) an agreement by the insurance company to provide to the Administrator the insurance company’s policy and claims data in a form prescribed by the Administrator; and (C) any other terms and conditions the Administrator determines are necessary and appropriate. (c) Access to flood insurance information Upon the request of a purchaser, lessee, or current owner of a property, the Administrator shall provide to the purchaser, lessee, or current owner of the property information pertaining to the property the purchaser or lessee is under contract to buy or lease, respectively, or the current owner’s property, as follows: (1) The number and dollar value of claims filed for the property, and factors related to the cause of loss, over the life of the property, as known to the Administrator, including claims made under— (A) a flood insurance policy made available under this Act; and (B) a private flood insurance policy. (2) Information on whether the property owner may be required to purchase flood insurance coverage due to previous receipt of Federal disaster assistance subject to the mandatory purchase requirement under section 102 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. (3) Such other available information about the property as determined by the Administrator to accurately and adequately characterize the true flood risk to the property. (d) Privacy protection Disclosure of information contained within a system of records (as such term is defined in section 552a(a)(5) of title 5, United States Code) as authorized in subsections (b) and (c) of this section shall be considered a routine use for the purposes of section 552a(3) of title 5, United States Code. (e) Fee (1) In general To carry out subsection (b), the Administrator may charge a fee to participating insurance companies under subsection (b). The Administrator shall not charge a fee to the current owner requesting flood insurance information under subsection (c). (2) Deposit The Administrator shall deposit the fee collected under this subsection into the National Flood Insurance Fund established under section 1310. (f) Definition For the purposes of this section the following definitions shall apply: (1) Insurance company The term insurance company means an insurance company that meets the requirements of subparagraph (A) of section 102(b)(7) of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 ( 42 U.S.C. 4012a(b)(7)(A) . (2) Lessee The term lessee means a person who enters into an agreement to lease, rent, or sublease a property. (3) Purchaser The term purchaser means a person or entity that enters into an agreement to purchase an interest in a property. .