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        <fullName>Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>American Homebuyers Protection Act - Prohibits a person engaged in the construction of new homes from: (1) requiring a home purchaser to enter into a mandatory arbitration agreement as a condition precedent to entering into a purchase contract; and (2) offering a home purchaser a contract which includes a mandatory arbitration agreement unless such agreement is a separate agreement.</p>]]></text>
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        <title>To prohibit offering homebuilding purchase contracts that contain in a single document both a mandatory arbitration agreement and other contract provisions, and to prohibit requiring purchasers to consent to a mandatory arbitration agreement as a condition precedent to entering into a homebuilding purchase contract.</title>
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      <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.</text>
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