National Policy & Advocacy Priorities
The PIA Government Relations staff has reviewed PIA’s past policy positions and Congress’s current priorities, and, in consultation with PIA members across the country, we have developed our 2025 Policy Priorities. While the items below are our top priorities for this year, PIA is always working to promote the interests of our independent agent members, wherever those interests take us.
- Tax Issues: PIA supports the Main Street Tax Certainty Act to make permanent the 20 percent tax deduction available to some S corporations, also known as passthrough corporations.
- Repeal or Reform of the Federal Insurance Office (FIO): PIA supports legislation to repeal or reform the Federal Insurance Office, a federal body overseen by the Treasury Department. Congress created the FIO in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, known as “Dodd-Frank,” and it is an ongoing threat to the successful state insurance regulatory system.
- Crop Insurance: PIA supports the federal crop insurance program, a highly technical program that relies on the expertise of independent insurance agents. The program requires private-sector insurance carriers to offer crop coverage to eligible growers interested in purchasing it. However, since the Risk Management Agency’s (RMA) decision to stop providing the administrative and operating (A&O) inflation adjustment in 2016, crop insurance agent compensation has effectively been cut each year.
- Flood Insurance: PIA continues to support the long-term reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). In 2019, PIA endorsed a legislative package that passed the House Financial Services Committee unanimously but stalled afterward and was never considered by the full House or Senate.
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