To make administrative reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program to increase fairness and accuracy and protect the taxpayer from program fraud and abuse, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
The National Flood Insurance Program Administrative Reform Act of 2025 overhauls how FEMA administers flood insurance claims and policies. It creates a pilot program to investigate preexisting property conditions that could affect claims, establishes strict fraud penalties, strengthens policyholder appeal rights, and requires claims decisions within 120 days. The bill also mandates disclosure of technical assistance reports to policyholders and improves policy transparency through standardized disclosure sheets.
Who Benefits and How
Flood insurance policyholders gain stronger appeal rights with 120-day decision deadlines, access to technical reports used in claims decisions, and clearer policy disclosures explaining coverage limits. The Office of Flood Insurance Advocate receives staffing requirements to better serve consumers. Write Your Own insurance companies can enter joint defense agreements with FEMA and voluntarily participate in preexisting conditions investigations.
Who Bears the Burden and How
FEMA faces new administrative requirements including appeals process management, fraud referrals, litigation oversight, and mandatory disclosure of technical reports. Write Your Own companies must comply with litigation oversight and may face denied reimbursement for unreasonable legal expenses. Insurance professionals (engineers, adjusters, attorneys) face fraud penalties including referral to state licensing agencies for false statements.
Key Provisions
- 120-day deadline for initial claims decisions (extendable for extraordinary circumstances)
- Formal appeals process with written decisions required within 120 days
- Fraud penalties for knowingly false engineering reports, claims adjustments, or filings
- Mandatory disclosure of technical assistance reports to policyholders upon request
- Standard disclosure sheets explaining coverage in plain language
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Makes administrative reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to increase fairness and accuracy for policyholders, enhance fraud prevention, and improve claims processing transparency.
Key Policy Areas
Insurance, Consumer Protection, Fraud Prevention, Emergency Management
Primary Purpose
Makes administrative reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to increase fairness and accuracy for policyholders, enhance fraud prevention, and improve claims processing transparency.
Policy Domains
NFIP Administrative Reforms
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Flood insurance policyholders
- Office of Flood Insurance Advocate
- Write Your Own companies (joint defense)
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- FEMA (administrative requirements)
- Write Your Own companies (oversight)
- Insurance professionals (fraud liability)
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMs. Velázquez introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Attorney General, FEMA, FEMA Administrator
Positive-direction: Legal and regulatory interpreters, NFIP (cost control), National Flood Insurance Fund
Negative-direction: Attorney General, FEMA, FEMA Administrator, FEMA claims processing, Federal lending regulators (OCC, FDIC, Fed, NCUA), Government Accountability Office
Claims adjusters and insurance professionals, Engineers, claims adjusters, and technical report preparers, Insurance industry professionals (agents, actuaries, claims specialists)
Write Your Own companies, Write Your Own insurance companies face effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: Insurance industry professionals (agents, actuaries, claims specialists), Insurance industry stakeholders, Lenders and mortgage servicers, Write Your Own companies (joint defense benefit)
Negative-direction: Claims adjusters and insurance professionals, Engineers, claims adjusters, and technical report preparers
NFIP policyholders, NFIP policyholders (claims certainty), NFIP policyholders (fraud protection)
Positive-direction: NFIP policyholders, NFIP policyholders (claims certainty), NFIP policyholders (fraud protection)
Negative-direction: NFIP policyholders requesting inspections
Engineers, surveyors, architects providing technical reports
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_administrator"
- → FEMA Administrator
- "the_attorney_general"
- → Attorney General
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Having actual awareness of the prohibitions and acting deliberately in violation of such prohibitions
A person or persons shown as an insured on the declarations page of a policy for flood insurance coverage
A report created for the purpose of furnishing technical assistance to an insurance claims adjuster, including by engineers, surveyors, salvors, architects, and certified public accountants
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