Dive summary:

• Legislation introduced in both houses of Congress this month would use the incentive of more disaster aid to prod state governments to adopt improved building codes, and the the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) are all for it.
• The legislation's name is the Safe Building Code Incentive Act (SBCIA), and it would bump a state's available aid under the Stafford Act by 4% if it put the International Residential Code into its law and enforced it.
• The insurance industry group says some states have no statewide building code, and some that do have one do not enforce it.

From the article:

[Julie] Rochman said 12 states currently would qualify for the extra federal dollars. There are 10 that would qualify with code modifications. Fourteen states have adopted the codes but lack enforcement authorization.