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<title>Small Business and Community Investments Expansion Act of 2017</title>
<summary summary-id="id115hr704v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2018-02-05">
<action-date>2017-01-27</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Small Business and Community Investments Expansion Act of 2017</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to authorize a Federal Home Loan Bank to make a long-term secured advance for the purpose of providing funds to a community development financial institution. Additionally, the bill expands eligible collateral, in the case of a community development financial institution, to include secured loans or securities representing a whole interest in secured loans.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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