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.

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.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4699 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4699

  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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2021

Ms. Castor of Florida (for herself and Mr. Luetkemeyer) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial 
                                Services

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                                 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.

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

SECTION 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.''.
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