[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4231 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4231

To ensure that any affordable housing assistance program of Fannie Mae 
  or Freddie Mac allows participation by nonprofit organizations that 
   engage in voter registration activities required under State law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 4, 2005

 Mr. Kennedy of Minnesota (for himself and Ms. McCollum of Minnesota) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To ensure that any affordable housing assistance program of Fannie Mae 
  or Freddie Mac allows participation by nonprofit organizations that 
   engage in voter registration activities required under State law.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS ON ELIGIBILITY OF NONPROFIT 
              ORGANIZATIONS ENGAGING IN VOTER REGISTRATION ACTIVITY 
              MANDATED UNDER STATE LAW.

    To the extent that the Federal National Mortgage Association or the 
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation is required by any provision of 
any law reforming the regulation of such entities, or by any regulation 
pursuant to such a law, to carry out any program under which grants or 
other financial assistance is made available by such an entity to 
nonprofit organizations for carrying out affordable housing or public 
infrastructure development activities, any law, regulation, or 
restriction making a nonprofit organization ineligible for such grants 
or assistance, or limiting such eligibility of a nonprofit 
organization, based on the organization engaging in voter registration 
activities shall not apply with respect to any voter registration 
activity of a nonprofit organization to the extent that such 
organization is required under State law to engage in such activity.
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