US Congress House Bill 4963 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6)
Status: Introduced on June 25 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-06-25 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Pending: House Financial Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

National Homeowners Bill of Rights Act of 2014 - Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to require servicers of federally related mortgage loans to: (1) establish for each borrower's account a single electronic record accessible throughout the servicer, including its agents, and all its affordable loan modification staff, foreclosure staff, and bankruptcy staff; and (2) maintain a free, publicly accessible website where borrowers may check their estimated net present value. Requires servicers to provide free oral interpretation services, as well as translated documents, upon borrower request, which may be provided by contracting with housing counseling agencies approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Prescribes requirements for the affordable loan modification process, including: (1) evaluation of borrowers facing imminent default, (2) assistance in applying for affordable loan modification, (3) treatment of successors in interest, (4) loan transfers, and (5) restrictions upon foreclosure proceedings. Bars sale of the property securing the mortgage if the servicer of the mortgage does not file a certification with the appropriate land records office where the property securing the mortgage is located, stating that the servicer has determined the eligibility of the mortgagor for an affordable loan modification. Prescribes criteria governing: (1) mortgagor's eligibility to participate in an affordable loan modification, (2) earned principal forgiveness, (3) principal reduction, and (4) treatment of junior liens. Subjects a servicer who violates this Act to a civil penalty, and to liability to the borrower. Limits to $1 million the maximum penalty for all violations committed by any particular servicer during any one-year period. Directs the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to appoint a Mortgage Servicer Ombudsman. Subjects to a maximum fine of $7,500 per loan a servicer who records or files with a land records office or a court more than one document with material deficiencies (robo-signing) with respect to a mortgage loan. Extends indefinitely the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 by repealing its termination date.

National Homeowners Bill of Rights Act of 2014

Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]	Rep. Corrine Brown [D-FL]	Rep. Lois Frankel [D-FL]	Rep. Alan Grayson [D-FL]
Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]	Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-06-25	House	Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4963/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr4963/BILLS-113hr4963ih.pdf