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The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), Reinsurance, and Catastrophe Bonds
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-28 · Posts · 1,033 words · PDF available
Insurance transfers risk from one entity who does not want to bear that risk to another entity that does. An initial insurance purchase, such as homeowners buying a policy to cover damage to their hom...
HHS Finalizes Rule Addressing Section 1557 of the ACA’s Incorporation of Title IX
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-28 · Posts · 3,013 words · PDF available
On May 6, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), issued a final rule implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Through re...
Congressional Court Watcher: Recent Appellate Decisions of Interest to Lawmakers (May 20–May 27, 2024)
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-28 · Posts · 2,399 words · PDF available
The federal courts issue hundreds of decisions every week in cases involving diverse legal disputes. This Sidebar series selects decisions from the past week that may be of particular interest to fede...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: FY2024 Appropriations
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-28 · Resources · 1,337 words · PDF available
Congress generally funds the civil works activities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in annual Energy and Water Development appropriations acts. These activities include the planning and co...
National Flood Insurance Program Risk Rating 2.0: Frequently Asked Questions
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-28 · Posts · 1,031 words · PDF available
This Insight answers some frequently asked questions about Risk Rating 2.0, which came fully into effect on April 1, 2022, changing the way the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) calculates flood...
The Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS)
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-28 · Posts · 1,053 words · PDF available
Flooding is the most frequent and costly natural disaster facing the nation, and floodplain policy has particular relevance for infrastructure and the federal government’s exposure to flood losses and...
Courts Disagree as to Whether the Federal Felon-in-Possession Firearm Prohibition Violates the Second Amendment
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-28 · Posts · 2,423 words · PDF available
There is growing disagreement among the federal appeals courts as to whether the federal ban on individuals convicted of a felony possessing firearms, found at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and commonly known...
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board and Inter Partes Review
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-28 · Reports · 27,700 words · PDF available
The 2011 Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is widely viewed as the most significant patent statute enacted by Congress in over 50 years. Although the AIA made many important changes to U.S. patent...
Climate Change, Slow-Onset Disasters, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-28 · Posts · 1,040 words · PDF available
FEMA and Climate Change The United States is already experiencing certain effects of climate change, including high temperature extremes and heavy precipitation events. The U.S. Global Change Research...
Georgia’s Parliament Passes “Transparency of Foreign Influence” Law
Congressional Research Service · 2024-05-28 · Posts · 1,069 words · PDF available
On May 28, 2024, the Georgian parliament overrode (via a simple majority) President Salome Zourabichvili’s veto and passed a law titled “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” (Zourabichvili is a polit...