But as flooding touches more Massachusetts households, Gov. Maura Healey is proposing a new requirement to steer people out of harm’s way in the first place: mandating flood risk disclosure when property owners sell.

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Massachusetts is one of just 14 states in the nation and one of just three located along the coast (Virginia and Georgia are the others) not to require flood disclosures, which are meant to arm prospective homebuyers with knowledge of a property’s past flooding history.

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