A subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee has passed legislation that would keep the National Flood Insurance Program in operation until Sept. 2016.

The action by the House Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity sets up likely full-committee action sometime in May, according to officials at the American Insurance Association.

The bill is H.R. 1309, the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2011.

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