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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="1223" measure-id="id113hr1223" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2013-03-15" update-date="2013-04-16">
<title>Fairness for Military Homeowners Act of 2013</title>
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<action-date>2013-03-15</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>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 from refinancing a mortgage on such residence. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to a servicemember who entered into a refinancing on such residence within the past five years.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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