Bill Text: PA HR194 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: A Concurrent Resolution urging the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to revise the Rules of Civil Procedure to provide for temporary relief for mortgage foreclosure.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-07 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HR194 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HR194-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1475
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 194 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY BISHOP, McGEEHAN, DAVIS, JOSEPHS, KORTZ, MANN, M. O'BRIEN, PASHINSKI, PAYTON, READSHAW, WAGNER, SABATINA AND DERMODY, APRIL 7, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 7, 2011
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Urging the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to revise the Rules of
Civil Procedure to provide for temporary relief for mortgage
foreclosure.
WHEREAS, The mortgage foreclosure on residential housing is
causing a serious housing crisis in this Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, The United States Department of Housing and Urban
Development is developing a "bridge-loan" program to assist
mortgagors affected by the crisis; and
WHEREAS, It is possible that a stay of foreclosures on
residential housing in the poorest areas of this Commonwealth,
pending Federal action addressing relief for impoverished
residential mortgagors, be addressed in the context of an
amendment to Pa.R.C.P. No. 3183 (relating to stay of execution
and setting aside execution); therefore be it
RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly
urge the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to amend Pa.R.C.P. No.
3183 (relating to stay of execution and setting aside execution)
to provide for a temporary stay of execution on residential
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mortgages of impoverished mortgagors, pending implementation of
Federal action addressing relief for impoverished residential
mortgagors; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to
the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.
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