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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="2672" measure-id="id113hr2672" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2013-07-11" update-date="2014-12-09">
<title>Helping Expand Lending Practices in Rural Communities Act</title>
<summary summary-id="id113hr2672v36" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2014-12-09">
<action-date>2014-05-06</action-date>
<action-desc>Passed House amended</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Helping Expand Lending Practices in Rural Communities Act - Directs the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to establish an application process under which a person who lives or does business in a state may apply to have an area in the state identified as a rural area if it has not yet been so designated by the CFPB for purposes of federal consumer financial law.</p> <p> Prescribes criteria for the CFPB to consider when evaluating the application. <p>Requires the CFPB to: (1) grant or deny the application within 90 days after the public comment period ends; and (3) publish the grant or denial in the Federal Register, including an explanation of the factors upon which the CFPB relied in making its determination.</p> <p>Sunsets this Act two years after its date of enactment.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<summary summary-id="id113hr2672v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2014-01-27">
<action-date>2013-07-11</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>CFPB Rural Designation Petition and Correction Act - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to establish an application process under which a person who lives or does business in a state may apply to have a county designated as a rural area for purposes of a federal consumer financial law.</p> <p> Prescribes criteria for the CFPB to consider when evaluating such an application. <p>Requires the CFPB to enter each such application into a sortable, downloadable database publicly accessible through its website.</p>]]></summary-text>
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