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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Shrinking Emergency Account Losses Act of 2017 or the SEAL Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer plan, to: (1) extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed, and (2) prohibit qualified employer plans from making loans using credit cards or any other similar arrangement. </p> <p>The bill also requires the Department of the Treasury to modify regulations governing hardship distributions from qualified employer plans to allow participants to make additional contributions to a plan during the six-month period following a hardship distribution.</p>]]></text>
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