[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6790 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6790

  To ensure that amounts made available for mortgage loss mitigation 
 counseling in areas having the highest foreclosure rates are used in 
                              such areas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 1, 2008

 Mr. Cardoza introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To ensure that amounts made available for mortgage loss mitigation 
 counseling in areas having the highest foreclosure rates are used in 
                              such areas.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Expanding Access to Foreclosure 
Counseling Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. COUNSELING INTERMEDIARIES.

    The third proviso of section 2305 of the Housing and Economic 
Recovery Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-289; 122 Stat. 2654) is amended in 
clause (1) by inserting after ``highest home foreclosure rates,'' the 
following: ``or, in the case of any of such 100 metropolitan 
statistical areas not having adequate counseling intermediaries and 
legal organizations that provide legal assistance in such area, provide 
legal assistance in areas near such metropolitan statistical area and 
have the capacity to provide such assistance in such metropolitan 
statistical area,''.
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