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<item congress="116" measure-type="hr" measure-number="2228" measure-id="id116hr2228" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2019-04-10" update-date="2019-11-29">
<title>To offer persistent poverty counties and political subdivisions of such counties the opportunity to have their rural development loans restructured.</title>
<summary summary-id="id116hr2228v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2019-11-29">
<action-date>2019-04-10</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>This bill allows persistent poverty counties and political subdivisions of the counties to restructure certain Department of Agriculture rural development loans so that the interest rate is 0% and the loan term is 40 years. </p> <p>A "persistent poverty county" is a county that has had at least 20% of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 1990, 2000, and 2010 decennial censuses. </p>]]></summary-text>
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