H.R. 6186To require a study of voluntary community-based flood insurance options and how such options could be incorporated into the national flood insurance program, and for other purposes.

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Sponsor: Gwen Moore [D-WI-04]
Cosponsors: 3 · 2 Republicans · 1 Democrat
Policy area: Emergency Management
Committees: Financial Services Committee, Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
Latest action: Sep 11, 2012 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

IntroducedJul 25, 2012
Passed the HouseSep 10, 2012
Passed the SenateNot yet reached
Sent to the PresidentNot yet reached
Became lawNot yet reached

What the measure doesCRS summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Directs the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to assess options, methods, and strategies for making voluntary community-based flood insurance policies available through the National Flood Insurance Program.

Requires the report on the study to specified congressional committees to make recommendations for a strategy to implement voluntary community-based flood insurance policies that would encourage communities to undertake flood mitigation activities, including construction, reconstruction, or improvement of levees, dams, or other flood control structures.

Directs the Comptroller General to review the Administrator's report and make comments or recommendations to such congressional committees.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 6186 as passed House without amendment on Sep 10, 2012. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.

How every member votedHouse roll call 559

House Sep 10, 2012

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

To require a study of voluntary community-based flood insurance options and how such options could be incorporated into the national flood insurance program

Passed · Two-thirds required

364 Yea 11 Nay 54 not voting

Crossed both parties 11 of 375 voting members broke with their own party: 11 Republicans.

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All members429 members

Democratic190 members

Republican239 members

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Cosponsors3 · 2 Republicans · 1 Democrat

Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 6186 and vote against it. 3 signed when it was filed.

RSPENCER BACHUS [R-AL-06]Original

DMaxine Waters [D-CA-35]Original2026 profile

RJUDY BIGGERT [R-IL-13]Original

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H.R. 6186To require a study of voluntary community-based flood insurance options and how such options could be incorporated into the national flood insurance program, and for other purposes.

What the measure doesCRS summary

How every member votedHouse roll call 559

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

How the chamber split

Cosponsors3 · 2 Republicans · 1 Democrat

H.R. 6186To require a study of voluntary community-based flood insurance options and how such options could be incorporated into the national flood insurance program, and for other purposes.

What the measure doesCRS summary

How every member votedHouse roll call 559

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

How the chamber split

Cosponsors3 · 2 Republicans · 1 Democrat

Who lobbied on H.R. 61864 organizations

Who lobbied on H.R. 61864 organizations