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Committee broadens resilience grant language to include voluntary buyouts for flood‑impacted or vulnerable properties
Summary
Senate Government Operations edited S.397 to allow community resilience and disaster mitigation grant funds to be used for voluntary buyouts of flood‑impacted or flood‑vulnerable properties. Members debated the definition of 'vulnerable' and the effect expanding eligibility would have on limited mitigation resources.
The Senate Government Operations Committee on May 15 amended S.397 to explicitly allow the Community Resilience and Disaster Mitigation Grant Program to fund voluntary buyouts not only for properties already damaged by floods but also for properties that are flood‑vulnerable.
Why it matters: including “vulnerable” properties in the statute expands potential eligibility for buyouts and other mitigation measures, which committee members said could let the state reduce future flood losses but could also stretch an already oversubscribed mitigation fund.
Key details - Statutory change: the committee agreed to add language so the…
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