US Congress Senate Bill 486 (Prior Session Legislation)

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June 8 2011 - Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Protecting Servicemembers from Mortgage Abuses Act of 2011 - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to extend from 9 months to 24 months after military service the period of protection for a servicemember against mortgage sale or foreclosure, as well as the stay of proceedings, in the case of an obligation on real property of a servicemember that originated before the period of military service. Repeals the sunset date for such periods of relief under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. Increases criminal and civil penalties for mortgage abuses, including felonies for unlawful eviction or distress or for unlawful sale, foreclosure, or seizure.

Protecting Servicemembers from Mortgage Abuses Act of 2011

Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon	Sen Baucus, Max	Sen Blumenthal, Richard	Sen Boxer, Barbara
Sen Durbin, Richard	Sen Feinstein, Dianne	Sen Franken, Al	Sen Hagan, Kay
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R.	Sen Leahy, Patrick J.	Sen Merkley, Jeff	Sen Mikulski, Barbara A.
Sen Nelson, Bill	Sen Pryor, Mark L.	Sen Reed, Jack	Sen Sanders, Bernard
Sen Tester, Jon

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-06-08	Senate	Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
2011-03-03	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

HB1566 (Related) 2011-08-25 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
HB1911 (Related) 2011-07-21 - Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:SN00486:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s486is/pdf/BILLS-112s486is.pdf