Subject Housing finance and home ownership | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | SB415 | Small Business Disaster Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the Small Business Act with respect to obtaining the best available collateral for a disaster loan of not more than $200,000 relating to damage to or destruction of the property of, or economic inju... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-17 Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably. |
| US | HB2216 | ; (4) exercising the power of eminent domain without the payment of just compensation; (5) paying for first-class travel by an agency employee in contravention of federal employee travel requirements; (6) renovating, expanding, or constructing any fa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-06 |
| US | SB1048 | Mortgage Finance Act of 2013 - Appoints the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) receiver of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (government sponsored enterprises or GSE... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-23 |
| US | SB1002 | Home Building Lending Improvement Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-21 |
| US | SJR12 | Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920 by consenting to certain amendments adopted by the Hawaiian legislature. (These amendments expand housing program eligibility and succession authority to individuals who are at least 25% Native Hawaiian ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. |
| US | HB1997 | Communities Achieving Sustainability Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), during a 2-year period, to insure and make commitments to insure rehabilitation loans (including advances during rehabilitation) made by financia... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-15 |
| US | HB1974 | Small Business Disaster Reform Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-14 |
| US | SB949 | Consumer Mortgage Choice Act - Amends the Truth in Lending Act with respect to requirements for disclosure to a consumer of points and fees information about a consumer credit transaction, secured by the consumer's principal dwelling, but which is no... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-14 |
| US | HB1885 | Veterans Home Loan Refinance Opportunity Act of 2013 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax-exempt veterans' mortgage bonds to permit: (1) proceeds from such bonds to refinance residences of veterans (currently, bond financing limi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 |
| US | HB1842 | Military Family Home Protection Act - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (the Act) to allow a court, in an action to enforce an obligation on real or personal property secured by a mortgage against a servicemember who is, or was, eligible for... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 |
| US | HB1872 | Budget and Accounting Transparency Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (FCRA) (title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 [CBA]) to revise the budgetary treatment of federal direct loans and loan guarantees to account for ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 |
| US | HB1862 | Capital Access for Small Community Financial Institutions Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to make a state credit union eligible for membership in the Federal Home Loan Bank system. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 |
| US | HB1703 | Medicaid Program Integrity Act of 2013 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act with respect to the option a state has, when determining an individual's Medicaid eligibility for long-term care assistance, to change the $500,000 maximu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-26 |
| US | HB1779 | Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act of 2013 - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to revise the exclusion from the meaning of "mortgage originator" of any employee of a retailer of manufactured hom... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-26 |
| US | HB1750 | CLEAR Relief Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 |
| US | HB1754 | Preserving American Homeownership Act of 2013 - Requires the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Federal Housing Commissioner each to establish a pilot program to encourage, through assistance provided under the Home Affordable Mod... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 |
| US | HB1706 | Mortgage Settlement Monitoring Act of 2013 - Establishes the Office of the Independent Monitor to determine the compliance with its terms of all parties to the amended consent orders (settlement) finalized on February 28, 2013, between the Board of G... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-24 |
| US | SB798 | Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act of 2013 or TBTF Act - Requires federal banking agencies to establish capital requirements for the ratio of equity capital to total consolidated assets for all financial institutions. Prohibits such requi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-24 |
| US | HB1712 | Housing Opportunity and Mortgage Equity Act of 2013 - Directs the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (government-sponsored enterprises or GSEs) each to carry out a one-year ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-24 |
| US | HB229 | Original Living American Wage (LAW) Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the federal minimum wage should, as a minimum, be adjusted every four years so that a person working for it may earn an annual income at least 15% higher than the fed... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB505 | Balancing Act - Title I: Repeal Sequester - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Controlled Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011, to repeal certain sequestration requirements for enforcemen... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | SB737 | Basel III Impact Study Act - Directs the federal banking agencies (the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [FDIC]), before issuing any final rule amending th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-16 |
| US | HB1550 | Revitalize America Act of 2013 - Permits a state or state agency to use up to 25% of amounts of assistance allocated to it through the Hardest Hit Fund program for demolition of foreclosed-upon properties and related expenses. Limits such assistance ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-15 |
| US | HB1499 | Disaster-Affected Homeowners Notification Act of 2013 - Requires certain notifications if, in connection with any major disaster declared pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, the Secretary of Housing and Ur... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-11 |
| US | SB688 | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deduction for mortgage insurance premiums. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 |
| US | HB707 | Short Term Retention for Agricultural Workers Act of 2013 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to rename H-2A nonimmigrant temporary agricultural workers as STRAW workers. Includes dairy or ranch workers in such category. Eliminates the 50% r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HB1223 | Fairness for Military Homeowners Act of 2013 - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to prohibit the absence of a servicemember from his or her principal place of residence due to active-duty military service from preventing such servicemember f... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-02 |
| US | SCR8 | Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2013, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023. Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY2013-FY... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 |
| US | HCR25 | Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023. Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY2014-F... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 Received in the Senate. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 33. |
| US | SB640 | Hawaiian Homeownership Opportunity Act of 2013 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to extend through FY2017 the authorization of appropriations for h... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 |
| US | HB1335 | Short Sale Transparency Act of 2013 - Directs the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to require the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), in any case in which one ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 |
| US | HB1397 | Project Rebuild Act of 2013 - Appropriates funds for assistance to eligible entities including state and local governments, and qualified nonprofit organizations, businesses or eligible consortia for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 |
| US | HB1159 | Cabin Fee Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to set an annual fee for, and requires the payment of such fee to the United States by, an authorized owner of a privately built and owned recreational cabin located on National Fore... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent. |
| US | HB1255 | Home Construction Lending Regulatory Improvement Act of 2013 - Directs the appropriate federal banking agencies to initiate a coordinated rulemaking with respect to financial institutions under their respective jurisdictions that make real estate loa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 |
| US | HB1213 | Common Sense Housing Investment Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax deduction for mortgage interest, to: (1) allow, in lieu of such deduction, a tax credit for 15% of mortgage interest paid in a taxable year for th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-15 |
| US | HB1221 | Basel III Capital Impact Study Act - Directs the federal banking agencies (the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [FDIC]), prior to issuing any final rule a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-15 |
| US | SB563 | Jumpstart GSE Reform Act - Prohibits the use of an increase in the guarantee fee required to be charged by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), or any affiliate of such orga... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 |
| US | HB1145 | FHA Emergency Fiscal Solvency Act of 2013 - Amends the National Housing Act (NHA) to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (who currently is authorized) to establish and collect additional annual premium payments for the first 1... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 |
| US | HB1077 | Consumer Mortgage Choice Act - Amends the Truth in Lending Act with respect to requirements for disclosure to a consumer of points and fees information about a consumer credit transaction, secured by the consumer's principal dwelling, but which is no... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| US | HB821 | Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, for five years after enactment of this Act, to afford surviving spouses of servicemembers who die while in the military and whose death is service-connected the same protections against sale, foreclosure, a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-08 |
| US | HB1028 | End Unnecessary Borrowing Act of 2013 - Amends the National Housing Act with respect to the requirement that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) endeavor to ensure that the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund attains a capital ratio of no... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-07 |
| US | SB469 | Amends the National Housing Act to require that, to be eligible for insurance under the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program for elderly homeowners, a mortgage contain terms and provisions with respect to property maintenance as well as for establ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 |
| US | SB454 | Family Self-Sufficiency Act - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise the purpose of the Family-Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program to include the use of both low-income housing assistance under Section 8 of such Act (as in current law) and... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 |
| US | HB941 | End Unnecessary Borrowing Act of 2013 - Amends the National Housing Act with respect to the requirement that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) endeavor to ensure that the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund attains a capital ratio of no... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-04 |
| US | HB927 | Common Sense Economic Recovery Act of 2013 - Cites circumstances under which, for purposes of determining capital requirements or measuring an insured depository institution's capital, such an institution may treat a non-accrual loan as an accrual lo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HB858 | Rural Housing Preservation Act of 2013 - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to revise the requirements for consideration as rural areas with respect to assistance for farm housing. States that any area classified as "rural" or a "rural ar... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-27 |
| US | HB839 | Prompt Notification of Short Sales Act - Requires each servicer of a home mortgage to provide in writing to a mortgagor of a residential mortgage loan specified prompt notifications and decisions regarding a written request of the mortgagor for a sho... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-26 |
| US | HB736 | Responsible Homeowner Refinancing Act of 2013 - Requires the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (government sponsored enterprises or GSEs), in carrying out the Home Affordable R... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 |
| US | HB737 | Homeowners' Defense Act of 2013 - Establishes the National Catastrophe Risk Consortium, as a non-federal, non-profit entity, to ensure the availability and affordability of homeowners' insurance coverage for catastrophic events. Directs the Consorti... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 |
| US | SB361 | Prompt Notification of Short Sales Act - Requires each servicer of a home mortgage to provide in writing to a mortgagor of a residential mortgage loan specified prompt notifications and decisions regarding a written request of the mortgagor for a sho... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 |
