The US Senate has approved a measure that guarantees temporary funding for the National Flood Insurance Program until at least 21 November.
The Senate voted in favour by a margin of 82-15 on 26 September and passed it to president Donald Trump for his signature.
The resolution’s passage through the Senate follows the approval of the measure by the US House of Representatives last week.
A continuing resolution is a type of legislation that appropriates money to specific federal government departments. This measure includes a funding agreement for the NFIP.
The measure is at least the third short-term extension of the government-backed flood insurance programme since the start of the year.
In June Congress passed an emergency relief bill guaranteeing funding for the scheme until at least 30 September.
This came after US lawmakers in May pushed back the deadline for the flood insurance NFIP’s funding expiration to 14 June
Since June, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a Democrat representing California, has fought to introduce legislation that would extend the NFIP by five years.
That month it received unanimous backing from the US House of Representatives’ committee on financial services.
Commenting on the passage of the resolution, Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America spokesperson Charles Symington urged Trump to quickly sign the resolution into law.
“A lapse in the NFIP would be devastating to the more than five million policyholders and countless others who depend on the program,” he said.