Florida Senate - 2014                                    SM 1298
       
       
        
       By Senator Brandes
       
       
       
       
       
       22-01451-14                                           20141298__
    1                           Senate Memorial                         
    2         A memorial to the Congress of the United States,
    3         urging Congress to pass the Disaster Savings Account
    4         Act to encourage the mitigation of property damage and
    5         costs before a natural disaster strikes.
    6  
    7         WHEREAS, Florida has a unique hurricane and flood risk and
    8  the most expensive homeowners’ insurance in the nation, and
    9         WHEREAS, mitigation before a disaster strikes creates safer
   10  structures and reduces the impact of natural disasters, thereby
   11  reducing property damage and costs, including insurance costs,
   12  associated with these disasters, and
   13         WHEREAS, the creation of tax-exempt disaster savings
   14  accounts will encourage homeowners to mitigate their homes from
   15  future natural disasters, NOW, THEREFORE,
   16  
   17  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   19         That the Congress of the United States is urged to pass the
   20  Disaster Savings Account Act creating disaster savings accounts
   21  to pay expenses for mitigating the effects of a disaster.
   22         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
   23  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
   24  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
   25  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
   26  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.