IMAGES Act of 2025

This bill changes how the National Flood Insurance Program makes its flood rate maps. Maps would have to show features such as roads, buildings, and rivers, along with land parcel information and, where practical, addresses, and would have to be updated within 5 years after a new national survey reference system is finished. FEMA would work with the U.S. Geological Survey to keep stream gage stations working, add new ones in high-risk areas, and reactivate inactive ones. FEMA would also post a public online database of flood mapping data and check every 5 years that each map is current. Mapping and engineering contracts would be awarded based on qualifications, and 5 percent of certain flood insurance revenue would go each quarter toward creating and maintaining the maps.

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Sponsors

• Troy Downing Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors