<enum>I</enum><header>Protecting homeowners</header> <section id="idB8D42EA33F6F40FFA0817F9DB2B5763D"><enum>101.</enum><header>Subprime refinancing loans through use of qualified mortgage bonds</header> <subsection id="IDdeec79dbe0364d99982f0ce7b8f53632"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Use of qualified mortgage bonds proceeds for subprime refinancing loans</header><text>Section 143(k) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to other definitions and special rules) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC3F0157011444FC087B5D7501F8EB828" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="IDaea0f00b34064587b2e4c51075e7d659"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Special rules for subprime refinancings</header> <subparagraph id="IDaf44f5b31c4b49fd92f849807b57e184"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection (i)(1), the proceeds of a qualified mortgage issue may be used to refinance a mortgage on a residence which was originally financed by the mortgagor through a qualified subprime loan.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa901b47820a14fbba374a2be34244765"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Special rules</header><text>In applying this paragraph to any case in which the proceeds of a qualified mortgage issue are used for any refinancing described in subparagraph (A)—</text> <clause id="IDb1eae33f85d446acb4699697a8c4593e"><enum>(i)</enum><text>subsection (a)(2)(D)(i) shall be applied by substituting <quote>12-month period</quote> for <quote>42-month period</quote> each place it appears,</text> </clause><clause id="IDebc56238f70e41f68f2458d1a5d9ea71"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>subsection (d) (relating to 3-year requirement) shall not apply, and</text> </clause><clause id="ID99664f2ba58742708c8b78f09edaa974"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>subsection (e) (relating to purchase price requirement) shall be applied by using the market value of the residence at the time of refinancing in lieu of the acquisition cost.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID81d71ce3b794407b95976f409a88b64e"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Qualified subprime loan</header><text>The term <term>qualified subprime loan</term> means an adjustable rate single-family residential mortgage loan originated after December 31, 2001, and before January 1, 2008, that the bond issuer determines would be reasonably likely to cause financial hardship to the borrower if not refinanced.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd84d1b3c0a414ef9a2519b71dfd799fa"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Termination</header><text>This paragraph shall not apply to any bonds issued after December 31, 2010.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="ID17bbb35565484472ab83f796ee03e9b4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Increased volume cap for certain bonds</header> <paragraph id="ID755a2a3ae6a04af4bc22de1ce901b2ee"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subsection (d) of section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id079D7E5C399D4CC8963A164F9533F2F4" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="ID05c71db2139b46ac911ba845b420838f"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Increase and set aside for housing bonds for 2008</header> <subparagraph id="ID144c71b8c90a4e799175542c00dd3ca2"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Increase for 2008</header><text>In the case of calendar year 2008, the State ceiling for each State shall be increased by an amount equal to $10,000,000,000 multiplied by a fraction—</text> <clause id="ID3e949c70d57a44e0b2ee73892d522028"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the numerator of which is the population of such State (as reported in the most recent decennial census), and</text> </clause><clause id="ID77b01de519074a90972763c795bcd9ed"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the denominator of which is the total population of all States (as reported in the most recent decennial census).</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDe016b3f7327d4401a530362a8309178d"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Set aside</header> <clause id="IDc538cab8bfc34768bcad223618ac0f6e"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any amount of the State ceiling for any State which is attributable to an increase under this paragraph shall be allocated solely for one or more qualified purposes.</text> </clause><clause id="ID0dee8465d72047d8a2bd3c284180b7df"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Qualified purpose</header><text>For purposes of this paragraph, the term <term>qualified purpose</term> means—</text> <subclause id="ID4a6da39149d344c7a55cf4de0c098c27"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the issuance of exempt facility bonds used solely to provide qualified residential rental projects, or</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID77a397640a834ecb99e5f85f8fd26da7"><enum>(II)</enum><text>a qualified mortgage issue (determined by substituting <quote>12-month period</quote> for <term>42-month period</term> each place it appears in section 143(a)(2)(D)(i)).</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID216221ffe601438a9d9c23a7f40b484b"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Carryforward of unused limitations</header><text>Subsection (f) of section 146 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id15AAB3DFA7674F82947ACA97A9A0FC9F" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="ID6835c3c00a5b417aa8d1a39da47bd6b6"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Special rules for increased volume cap under subsection (d)(5)</header> <subparagraph id="ID080e8222527b4089b8c1a2eff041d898"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>No amount which is attributable to the increase under subsection (d)(5) may be used—</text> <clause id="IDb3ccaf412b754ffe82b3593850786714"><enum>(i)</enum><text>for a carryforward purpose other than a qualified purpose (as defined in subsection (d)(5)), and</text> </clause><clause id="IDdc81de38b20248bdb1bcfd13c8bd7465"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to issue any bond after calendar year 2010.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa77843ec274548a99c57c3c5e22e3478"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Ordering rules</header><text>For purposes of subparagraph (A), any carryforward of an issuing authority's volume cap for calendar year 2008 shall be treated as attributable to such increase to the extent of such increase.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID39c81ac7324e45a8866c005be6c654e0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Alternative minimum tax</header> <paragraph id="ID49fea810f8e0465391785dff0237c51b"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Clause (ii) of section 57(a)(5)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>shall not include</quote> and all that follows and inserting “shall not include—</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3925EAD1513142F396976BB1378A07AC" style="OLC"> <subclause id="ID5eba0d9fb8f94e28984717fe9ce32557"><enum>(I)</enum><text>any qualified 501(c)(3) bond (as defined in section 145), or</text> </subclause><subclause id="IDd097cb05aa7342238b64c5c1a012f9e5"><enum>(II)</enum><text>any qualified mortgage bond (as defined in section 143(a)) or qualified veteran's mortgage bond (as defined in section 143(b)) issued after the date of the enactment of this subclause and before January 1, 2011.</text> </subclause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID822057bd097340fa982804db1edec93c"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The heading for section 57(a)(5)(C)(ii) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote><header-in-text level="clause" style="OLC">qualified 501(c)(3) bonds</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="clause" style="OLC">certain bond</header-in-text></quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID52020ac2a05d4f599aa8632f8c083a9d"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to bonds issued after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text> </subsection></section><section id="ID333b5e893ae0433b8ebad68cb7e94bf2"><enum>102.</enum><header>Expeditious distribution of funds already provided for mortgage foreclosure counseling</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Upon certification by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation under paragraph (4) under the second undesignated paragraph under the heading <quote>Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation—Payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation</quote> of Public Law 110–161 that Housing and Urban Development or Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation-approved counseling intermediaries and State Housing Finance Agencies have the need for additional portions of the $180,000,000 provided therein for mortgage foreclosure mitigation activities in States and areas with high rates of mortgage foreclosures, defaults, or related activities beyond the initial awards, and the expertise to use such funds effectively, the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation shall expeditiously continue to award such funds as need and expertise is shown.</text> </section><section id="id00D98EB0034D4F898255E9F6BDE75A00" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header>Credit for purchase of homes in or near foreclosure</header> <subsection id="ID1913303D6FAF4166B44D11BE701895A9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Allowance of credit</header><text>Subpart A of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to refundable credits) is amended by inserting after section 25D the following new section:</text> <quoted-block act-name="" id="id796B26425585468AAB66B1F29143B625" style="OLC"> <section id="id5224850B85E74ADB84E79D05A21108A4"><enum>25E.</enum><header>Credit for purchase of homes in or near foreclosure</header> <subsection id="idFF6E92FE186D4C7BA3778383131F1ED6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Allowance of credit</header> <paragraph id="id3743483ECA864DE28A48FEE7A064F1A5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In the case of an individual who is a purchaser of a qualified principal residence during the taxable year, there shall be allowed as a credit against the tax imposed by this chapter an amount equal to so much of the purchase price of the residence as does not exceed $15,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idF316E6A8CC11480EB760FD2FAED200B6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Allocation of credit amount</header><text>The amount of the credit allowed under paragraph (1) shall be equally divided among the 3 taxable years beginning with the taxable year in which the purchase of the qualified principal residence is made.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id9DE7E5CDA9C84DBCB732CE50A244B904"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitations</header> <paragraph id="id7D599410A9624BFEA74E1DE5148A66EC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Date of purchase</header><text>The credit allowed under subsection (a) shall be allowed only with respect to purchases made—</text> <subparagraph id="id953019E192B94AB7B32844F9A0F28861"><enum>(A)</enum><text>after February 29, 2008, and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7D26180C5AF2438F8A9ADC684FEC12DC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>before March 1, 2009.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idA8F59AD4C3D54D87A95FD6845342DADA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation based on amount of tax</header><text>In the case of a taxable year to which section 26(a)(2) does not apply, the credit allowed under subsection (a) for any taxable year shall not exceed the excess of—</text> <subparagraph id="idB7BB9BEEE47747FB999C9D272A4154F5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the sum of the regular tax liability (as defined in section 26(b)) plus the tax imposed by section 55, over</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA836511D1DD14D4F8402A11BA57FA102"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the sum of the credits allowable under this subpart (other than this section) for the taxable year.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id4ED379E2CE2941D3BBD5BDCB272CC175"><enum>(3)</enum><header>One-time only</header> <subparagraph id="id1BA25C3B979347F9BEF6234E01DF20DD"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If a credit is allowed under this section in the case of any individual (and such individual's spouse, if married) with respect to the purchase of any qualified principal residence, no credit shall be allowed under this section in any taxable year with respect to the purchase of any other qualified principal residence by such individual or a spouse of such individual.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id78631E989B1A444787C91FC507BA806F"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Joint purchase</header><text>In the case of a purchase of a qualified principal residence by 2 or more unmarried individuals or by 2 married individuals filing separately, no credit shall be allowed under this section if a credit under this section has been allowed to any of such individuals in any taxable year with respect to the purchase of any other qualified principal residence.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id75919FA796374AC0B503B6371059E10F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Qualified principal residence</header> <paragraph id="id78695F17ADD84991B71CC961CD8293E4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For purposes of this section, the term <term>qualified principal residence</term> means an eligible single-family residence that is purchased to be the principal residence of the purchaser.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id4E69549FF8EC47A4B1C93C9DA6880DD0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligible single-family residence</header> <subparagraph id="idCDF6FF1EF3D64F0C974C0569CBBF13F3"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <term>eligible single-family residence</term> means a single-family structure that is—</text> <clause id="idFF5D6EA1612A4407840442371A849469"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a new previously unoccupied residence for which a building permit is issued and construction begins on or before September 1, 2007, but only if such residence is purchased by the taxpayer directly from the person to whom such building permit was issued,</text> </clause><clause id="idA3E4ED96A1EC4D5E8A13FA8CDAF1F9C7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>an owner-occupied residence with respect to which the owner's acquisition indebtedness (as defined in section 163(h)(3)(B), determined without regard to clause (ii) thereof) is in default on or before March 1, 2008, or</text> </clause><clause id="id7383A6CF4E074D30A5CFA7D79C1CE46F"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a residence with respect to which a foreclosure event has taken place and which is owned by the mortgagor or the mortgagor's agent, but only if such residence was occupied as a principal residence by the mortgagee for at least 1 year prior to the foreclosure event.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idF6B3C4084BA042A19637AB3A0E4A91C3"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Certification</header><text>In the case of an eligible single-family residence described in subparagraph (A)(i), no credit shall be allowed under this section unless the purchaser submits a certification by the seller of such residence that such residence meets the requirements of such subparagraph.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idC21AC02ECA2447FB827347212D725F08"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Denial of double benefit</header><text>No credit shall be allowed under this section for any purchase for which a credit is allowed under section 1400C.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id363C86C627D84F17B3830F4566DF0DA1"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Recapture in the case of certain dispositions</header><text>In the event that a taxpayer—</text> <paragraph id="id8CA6CDB6B12F42BAB37AD8281EBC4338"><enum>(1)</enum><text>disposes of the qualified principal residence with respect to which a credit is allowed under subsection (a), or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id80C6EBCBC54A489BBCD62D40C9581654"><enum>(2)</enum><text>fails to occupy such residence as the taxpayer's principal residence,</text> </paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">at any time within 36 months after the date on which the taxpayer purchased such residence, then the remaining portion of the credit allowed under subsection (a) shall be disallowed in the taxable year during which such disposition occurred or in which the taxpayer failed to occupy the residence as a principal residence, and in any subsequent taxable year in which the remaining portion of the credit would, but for this subsection, have been allowed.</continuation-text></subsection><subsection id="id9403E3DF8C514E8F95C0D9681B34FAFE"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Special rules</header> <paragraph id="id82E97C6071AF4D3EB8C82DABE445145B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Joint purchase</header> <subparagraph id="id515D49E8423147ABAA52BFFF35576058"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Married individuals filing separately</header><text>In the case of 2 married individuals filing separately, subsection (a) shall be applied to each such individual by substituting <quote>$7,500</quote> for <quote>$15,000</quote> in subsection (a)(1).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id18E19045B6134563B84C89B17678F05E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Unmarried individuals</header><text>If 2 or more individuals who are not married purchase a qualified principal residence, the amount of the credit allowed under subsection (a) shall be allocated among such individuals in such manner as the Secretary may prescribe, except that the total amount of the credits allowed to all such individuals shall not exceed $15,000.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id6AB624887EAD468EA8C1D9DBC991FC20"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Purchase</header><text>In defining the purchase of a qualified principal residence, rules similar to the rules of paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 1400C(e) (as in effect on the date of the enactment of this section) shall apply.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id8B424507BEF34821923BA1731A3B891A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Reporting requirement</header><text>Rules similar to the rules of section 1400C(f) (as so in effect) shall apply.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id613F3932136A4E5EB3F9D6EB71B296BF"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Basis adjustment</header><text>For purposes of this subtitle, if a credit is allowed under this section with respect to the purchase of any residence, the basis of such residence shall be reduced by the amount of the credit so allowed.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="idB780D0F6D8CA400C8476DF30AC0FE931"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of sections for subpart A of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 25D the following new item:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBE1241B820E24A95B61D17DF0C605248" style="OLC"> <toc> <toc-entry level="section">Sec. 25E. Credit for certain home purchases.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section id="IDff5844e56ffd4a2d9d2a4b6a5c7b9f9c"><enum>104.</enum><header>Enhanced mortgage loan disclosures</header> <subsection id="IDc37b22dfad774eb4a408b115d2ab8ba9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Truth in lending Act disclosures</header><text>Section 128(b)(2) of the Truth in Lending Act (15 U.S.C. 1638(b)(2)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="IDfcbf8660f33648578139c38fb0b5769f"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(A)</quote> before <quote>In the</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID97a3e35d02e94a65833ebca2130b23ea"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>a residential mortgage transaction, as defined in section 103(w)</quote> and inserting <quote>any extension of credit that is secured by the dwelling of a consumer</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID77d234ee04ac43edb607fba5c52d2831"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking <quote>shall be made in accordance</quote> and all that follows through <quote>extended, or</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID185cf90987764dee9e57ebd9b14a0e3d"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking <quote>If the</quote> and all that follows through the end of the paragraph and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE02BA6D81D5F4E9FA1CC290242A4344C" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="IDc5b52d2c5166442eaa7da832f043bfd0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>In the case of an extension of credit that is secured by the dwelling of a consumer, in addition to the other disclosures required by subsection (a), the disclosures provided under this paragraph shall—</text> <clause id="ID36e468eb39414b86819ed386551305fe"><enum>(i)</enum><text>state in conspicuous type size and format, the following: <quote>You are not required to complete this agreement merely because you have received these disclosures or signed a loan application.</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause id="IDc97883a4e9834808917bf43ed63a9bc8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>be furnished to the borrower not later than 7 business days before the date of consummation of the transaction, and at the time of consummation of the transaction, subject to subparagraph (D).</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDab54a28a8db44a058fe4f0ac1fb05b87"><enum>(C)</enum><text>In the case of an extension of credit that is secured by the dwelling of a consumer, under which the annual rate of interest is variable, or with respect to which the regular payments may otherwise be variable, in addition to the other disclosures required by subsection (a), the disclosures provided under this paragraph shall—</text> <clause id="IDd18585c872c24339af7e7cb8c1ca02c7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>label the payment schedule as follows: <quote>Payment Schedule: Payments Will Vary Based on Interest Rate Changes</quote>;</text> </clause><clause id="ID9965552a0807401497ad0683bb7c7e28"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>state the maximum amount of the regular required payments on the loan, based on the maximum interest rate allowed, introduced with the following language in conspicuous type size and format: <quote>Your payment can go as high as $_______</quote>, the blank to be filled in with the maximum possible payment amount;</text> </clause><clause id="IDd735e10413714bc9b1ea89e3965ec875"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>if the loan is an adjustable rate mortgage that includes an initial fixed interest rate—</text> <subclause id="ID50dbd4c1ddd4431ab444638912fe9ad9"><enum>(I)</enum><text>state in conspicuous type size and format the following phrase: This loan is an adjustable rate mortgage with an initial fixed interest rate. Your initial fixed interest rate is AAA with a monthly payment of BBB until CCC. After that date, the interest rate on your loan will <quote>reset</quote> to an adjustable rate and both your interest rate and payment could go higher on that date and in the future. For example, if your initial fixed rate ended today, your new adjustable interest rate would be DDD and your new payment EEE. If interest rates are one percent higher than they are today or at some point in the future, your new payment would be FFF. There is no guarantee you will be able to refinance your loan to a lower interest rate and payment before your initial fixed interest rate ends.;</text> </subclause><subclause id="IDb5b0889b3def475993e7b49b515c8da6"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the blank AAA in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the initial fixed interest rate;</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID0f274fad611c4149ade3c7798934f241"><enum>(III)</enum><text>the blank BBB in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the payment amount under the initial fixed interest rate;</text> </subclause><subclause id="IDba04f543d23d4a6d9fca7211d84868c1"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>the blank CCC in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the loan reset date;</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID231d18c7bcd5431c9de3f6772b2e86e2"><enum>(V)</enum><text>the blank DDD in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the adjustable rate as if the initial rate expired on the date of disclosure under subparagraph (B);</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID9e5303e322a8427fba8ab62112b26a45"><enum>(VI)</enum><text>the blank EEE in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the payment under the adjustable rate as if the initial rate expired on the date of disclosure under subparagraph (B); and</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID6cf44bd294434101abf19ac044456a42"><enum>(VII)</enum><text>the blank FFF in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the payment under the adjustable rate as if index rate on which the adjustable rate was one percent higher than of the date of disclosure under subparagraph (B); and</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="ID47736a9fd8b44a68889f4dc1b9d7a8b3"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>if the loan contains a prepayment penalty—</text> <subclause id="IDde64cbd28dbf4000a321602f34918ff8"><enum>(I)</enum><text>state in conspicuous type and format the following phrase: This loan contains a prepayment penalty. If you desire to pay off this loan before GGG, you will pay a penalty of HHH.;</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID0f314dbdaa3245e9b930228634264ab5"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the blank GGG in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the date the prepayment penalty expires; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID6b3c4a5a4bc74e98b0d59d2a2c58214f"><enum>(III)</enum><text>the blank HHH in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the prepayment penalty amount.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID6568aaa5a7594857b8d6723db23624d9"><enum>(D)</enum><text>In any case in which the disclosure statement provided 7 business days before the date of consummation of the transaction contains an annual percentage rate of interest that is no longer accurate, as determined under section 107(c), the creditor shall furnish an additional, corrected statement to the borrower, not later than 3 business days before the date of consummation of the transaction.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID21fc5ebaedeb4f75b083b7b1b33eacc2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Civil liability</header><text>Section 130(a) of the Truth in Lending Act (15 U.S.C. 1640(a)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="IDa20b596177da42cabf8b7460ad7b6141"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(A)(iii), by striking <quote>not less than $200 or greater than $2,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$5,000, such amount to be adjusted annually based on the consumer price index, to maintain current value</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDc65d55e056494e5b8631aa2e7140847f"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the penultimate sentence of the undesignated matter following paragraph (4)—</text> <subparagraph id="ID20934f8091dd4c5aa3d50fa7e6bef58c"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>only for</quote> and inserting <quote>for</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDf4261827bd5b4617841e98a4c4b1c34c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 125 or</quote> and inserting <quote>section 122, section 125,</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID0b22fdff10ae4c388d75ff56712e4cf6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or section 128(b),</quote> after <quote>128(a),</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID767e17c3b677476aaf376fe291b206a5"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or section 128(b)</quote> before the period.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="IDF2B306F1EC2946B2A9FADC6CD59E0064" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</enum><header>Carryback of certain net operating losses allowed for 5 years; temporary suspension of 90 percent AMT limit</header> <subsection id="IDD943244B9DEB4EE9985280327EEDEA04"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subparagraph (H) of section 172(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA72692128AA14D7793AAC4908BAEA451" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="idC598B916365045FCBA79AA54E5298A60"><enum>(H)</enum><header>5-year carryback of certain losses</header> <clause id="id07DDAB8475FD4DAC8D0C4577DF2777F6"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Taxable years ending during 2001 and 2002</header><text>In the case of a net operating loss for any taxable year ending during 2001 or 2002, subparagraph (A)(i) shall be applied by substituting <quote>5</quote> for <quote>2</quote> and subparagraph (F) shall not apply.</text> </clause><clause id="id489C33104EC946CEB63C04DDAD137BA5"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Taxable years ending during 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009</header><text>In the case of a net operating loss for any taxable year ending during 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009—</text> <subclause id="idC8362D5196424425B44AF9DEA92DCC6B"><enum>(I)</enum><text>subparagraph (A)(i) shall be applied by substituting <quote>5</quote> for <quote>2</quote>,</text> </subclause><subclause id="id79EF2CBB8EF44E6AB9223320FBEDD6B2"><enum>(II)</enum><text>subparagraph (E)(ii) shall be applied by substituting <quote>4</quote> for <quote>2</quote>, and</text> </subclause><subclause id="id1420B883D27E4091B4D54969FC72BA6A"><enum>(III)</enum><text>subparagraph (F) shall not apply.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="ID70E44446FEB74F1B81A8C39E6047CEF1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Temporary suspension of 90 percent limit on certain NOL carrybacks and carryovers</header> <paragraph id="id1A45B12EA2E74ECD8F7406CD3455F064"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 56(d) of the of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2AAB59D8EF994C9FAD4C2E0B0FC2880E" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="idF092949B7FD64A1683A2F728245E8B29"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Additional adjustments</header><text>For purposes of paragraph (1)(A), the amount described in clause (I) of paragraph (1)(A)(ii) shall be increased by the amount of the net operating loss deduction allowable for the taxable year under section 172 attributable to the sum of—</text> <subparagraph id="idC114BC22B3C7447F8EBF80D6E846446F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>carrybacks of net operating losses from taxable years ending during 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE061D523FC534D6E9F11F8BBEED98A96"><enum>(B)</enum><text>carryovers of net operating losses to taxable years ending during 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="id1616A021C57C4E688548621183A01B25"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Subclause (I) of section 56(d)(1)(A)(i) of such Code is amended by inserting <quote>amount of such</quote> before <quote>deduction described in clause (ii)(I)</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id43F87EDF37EA4DA78C56593B3AF3B88F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Anti-abuse rules</header><text>The Secretary of Treasury or the Secretary's designee shall prescribes such rules as are necessary to prevent the abuse of the purposes of the amendments made by this section, including anti-stuffing rules, anti-churning rules (including rules relating to sale-leasebacks), and rules similar to the rules under section 1091 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 relating to losses from wash sales.</text> </subsection><subsection id="ID307DEB8A7A7B464084744F79833C2D7E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective dates</header> <paragraph id="IDA1EBF98DB0C748709A9EBF12D6289B19"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Subsection <enum-in-header>(a)</enum-in-header></header> <subparagraph id="id82CBA5AA7375447ABF191BE2C81717CD"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to net operating losses arising in taxable years ending in 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID44FA5E4C7A834A6FA35C8E255FB483C7"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Election</header><text>In the case of a net operating loss for a taxable year ending during 2006 or 2007—</text> <clause id="IDF006C55BB7F34FD69CD41D7FA073E603"><enum>(i)</enum><text>any election made under section 172(b)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 may (notwithstanding such section) be revoked before November 1, 2008, and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID51BB518D54FF477BA2D662BA715DC014"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any election made under section 172(j) of such Code shall (notwithstanding such section) be treated as timely made if made before November 1, 2008.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD875F678C2274583993756996B965364"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Subsection <enum-in-header>(b)</enum-in-header></header><text>The amendments made by subsection (b) shall apply to taxable years ending after December 31, 1995.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section>

Short title; table of contents

(a)

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Security Against Foreclosures and Education Act or the SAFE Act. (b)

Table of contents

The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

TITLE I—Protecting homeowners

Sec. 101. Subprime refinancing loans through use of qualified mortgage bonds.

Sec. 102. Expeditious distribution of funds already provided for mortgage foreclosure counseling.

Sec. 103. Credit for purchase of homes in or near foreclosure.

Sec. 104. Enhanced mortgage loan disclosures.

Sec. 105. Carryback of certain net operating losses allowed for 5 years; temporary suspension of 90 percent AMT limit.

TITLE II—Mortgage Foreclosure Protections for Servicemembers

Sec. 201. Expansion of period after servicemember service of moratorium on foreclosure sales.

Sec. 202. Counseling on mortgage foreclosures for members of the Armed Forces returning from service abroad.

TITLE III—FHA Modernization Act of 2008

Sec. 301. Short title.

Subtitle A—Building American Homeownership

Sec. 311. Short title.

Sec. 312. Maximum principal loan obligation.

Sec. 313. Cash investment requirement and prohibition of seller-funded downpayment assistance.

Sec. 314. Mortgage insurance premiums.

Sec. 315. Rehabilitation loans.

Sec. 316. Discretionary action.

Sec. 317. Insurance of condominiums.

Sec. 318. Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund.

Sec. 319. Hawaiian home lands and Indian reservations.

Sec. 320. Conforming and technical amendments.

Sec. 321. Insurance of mortgages.

Sec. 322. Home equity conversion mortgages.

Sec. 323. Energy efficient mortgages program.

Sec. 324. Pilot program for automated process for borrowers without sufficient credit history.

Sec. 325. Homeownership preservation.

Sec. 326. Use of FHA savings for improvements in FHA technologies, procedures, processes, program performance, staffing, and salaries.

Sec. 327. Post-purchase housing counseling eligibility improvements.

Sec. 328. Pre-purchase homeownership counseling demonstration.

Sec. 329. Fraud prevention.

Sec. 330. Limitation on mortgage insurance premium increases.

Sec. 331. Savings provision.

Sec. 332. Implementation.

Sec. 333. Moratorium on implementation of risk-based premiums.

Subtitle B—Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization

Sec. 341. Short title.

Sec. 342. Purposes.

Sec. 343. Exception to limitation on financial institution portfolio.

Sec. 344. Insurance benefits.

Sec. 345. Maximum loan limits.

Sec. 346. Insurance premiums.

Sec. 347. Technical corrections.

Sec. 348. Revision of underwriting criteria.

Sec. 349. Prohibition against kickbacks and unearned fees.

Sec. 350. Leasehold requirements.

<enum>I</enum><header>Protecting homeowners</header> <section id="idB8D42EA33F6F40FFA0817F9DB2B5763D"><enum>101.</enum><header>Subprime refinancing loans through use of qualified mortgage bonds</header> <subsection id="IDdeec79dbe0364d99982f0ce7b8f53632"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Use of qualified mortgage bonds proceeds for subprime refinancing loans</header><text>Section 143(k) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to other definitions and special rules) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC3F0157011444FC087B5D7501F8EB828" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="IDaea0f00b34064587b2e4c51075e7d659"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Special rules for subprime refinancings</header> <subparagraph id="IDaf44f5b31c4b49fd92f849807b57e184"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection (i)(1), the proceeds of a qualified mortgage issue may be used to refinance a mortgage on a residence which was originally financed by the mortgagor through a qualified subprime loan.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa901b47820a14fbba374a2be34244765"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Special rules</header><text>In applying this paragraph to any case in which the proceeds of a qualified mortgage issue are used for any refinancing described in subparagraph (A)—</text> <clause id="IDb1eae33f85d446acb4699697a8c4593e"><enum>(i)</enum><text>subsection (a)(2)(D)(i) shall be applied by substituting <quote>12-month period</quote> for <quote>42-month period</quote> each place it appears,</text> </clause><clause id="IDebc56238f70e41f68f2458d1a5d9ea71"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>subsection (d) (relating to 3-year requirement) shall not apply, and</text> </clause><clause id="ID99664f2ba58742708c8b78f09edaa974"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>subsection (e) (relating to purchase price requirement) shall be applied by using the market value of the residence at the time of refinancing in lieu of the acquisition cost.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID81d71ce3b794407b95976f409a88b64e"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Qualified subprime loan</header><text>The term <term>qualified subprime loan</term> means an adjustable rate single-family residential mortgage loan originated after December 31, 2001, and before January 1, 2008, that the bond issuer determines would be reasonably likely to cause financial hardship to the borrower if not refinanced.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd84d1b3c0a414ef9a2519b71dfd799fa"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Termination</header><text>This paragraph shall not apply to any bonds issued after December 31, 2010.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="ID17bbb35565484472ab83f796ee03e9b4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Increased volume cap for certain bonds</header> <paragraph id="ID755a2a3ae6a04af4bc22de1ce901b2ee"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subsection (d) of section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id079D7E5C399D4CC8963A164F9533F2F4" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="ID05c71db2139b46ac911ba845b420838f"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Increase and set aside for housing bonds for 2008</header> <subparagraph id="ID144c71b8c90a4e799175542c00dd3ca2"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Increase for 2008</header><text>In the case of calendar year 2008, the State ceiling for each State shall be increased by an amount equal to $10,000,000,000 multiplied by a fraction—</text> <clause id="ID3e949c70d57a44e0b2ee73892d522028"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the numerator of which is the population of such State (as reported in the most recent decennial census), and</text> </clause><clause id="ID77b01de519074a90972763c795bcd9ed"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the denominator of which is the total population of all States (as reported in the most recent decennial census).</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDe016b3f7327d4401a530362a8309178d"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Set aside</header> <clause id="IDc538cab8bfc34768bcad223618ac0f6e"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any amount of the State ceiling for any State which is attributable to an increase under this paragraph shall be allocated solely for one or more qualified purposes.</text> </clause><clause id="ID0dee8465d72047d8a2bd3c284180b7df"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Qualified purpose</header><text>For purposes of this paragraph, the term <term>qualified purpose</term> means—</text> <subclause id="ID4a6da39149d344c7a55cf4de0c098c27"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the issuance of exempt facility bonds used solely to provide qualified residential rental projects, or</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID77a397640a834ecb99e5f85f8fd26da7"><enum>(II)</enum><text>a qualified mortgage issue (determined by substituting <quote>12-month period</quote> for <term>42-month period</term> each place it appears in section 143(a)(2)(D)(i)).</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID216221ffe601438a9d9c23a7f40b484b"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Carryforward of unused limitations</header><text>Subsection (f) of section 146 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id15AAB3DFA7674F82947ACA97A9A0FC9F" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="ID6835c3c00a5b417aa8d1a39da47bd6b6"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Special rules for increased volume cap under subsection (d)(5)</header> <subparagraph id="ID080e8222527b4089b8c1a2eff041d898"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>No amount which is attributable to the increase under subsection (d)(5) may be used—</text> <clause id="IDb3ccaf412b754ffe82b3593850786714"><enum>(i)</enum><text>for a carryforward purpose other than a qualified purpose (as defined in subsection (d)(5)), and</text> </clause><clause id="IDdc81de38b20248bdb1bcfd13c8bd7465"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to issue any bond after calendar year 2010.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDa77843ec274548a99c57c3c5e22e3478"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Ordering rules</header><text>For purposes of subparagraph (A), any carryforward of an issuing authority's volume cap for calendar year 2008 shall be treated as attributable to such increase to the extent of such increase.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID39c81ac7324e45a8866c005be6c654e0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Alternative minimum tax</header> <paragraph id="ID49fea810f8e0465391785dff0237c51b"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Clause (ii) of section 57(a)(5)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>shall not include</quote> and all that follows and inserting “shall not include—</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3925EAD1513142F396976BB1378A07AC" style="OLC"> <subclause id="ID5eba0d9fb8f94e28984717fe9ce32557"><enum>(I)</enum><text>any qualified 501(c)(3) bond (as defined in section 145), or</text> </subclause><subclause id="IDd097cb05aa7342238b64c5c1a012f9e5"><enum>(II)</enum><text>any qualified mortgage bond (as defined in section 143(a)) or qualified veteran's mortgage bond (as defined in section 143(b)) issued after the date of the enactment of this subclause and before January 1, 2011.</text> </subclause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID822057bd097340fa982804db1edec93c"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The heading for section 57(a)(5)(C)(ii) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote><header-in-text level="clause" style="OLC">qualified 501(c)(3) bonds</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="clause" style="OLC">certain bond</header-in-text></quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID52020ac2a05d4f599aa8632f8c083a9d"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to bonds issued after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text> </subsection></section><section id="ID333b5e893ae0433b8ebad68cb7e94bf2"><enum>102.</enum><header>Expeditious distribution of funds already provided for mortgage foreclosure counseling</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Upon certification by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation under paragraph (4) under the second undesignated paragraph under the heading <quote>Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation—Payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation</quote> of Public Law 110–161 that Housing and Urban Development or Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation-approved counseling intermediaries and State Housing Finance Agencies have the need for additional portions of the $180,000,000 provided therein for mortgage foreclosure mitigation activities in States and areas with high rates of mortgage foreclosures, defaults, or related activities beyond the initial awards, and the expertise to use such funds effectively, the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation shall expeditiously continue to award such funds as need and expertise is shown.</text> </section><section id="id00D98EB0034D4F898255E9F6BDE75A00" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header>Credit for purchase of homes in or near foreclosure</header> <subsection id="ID1913303D6FAF4166B44D11BE701895A9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Allowance of credit</header><text>Subpart A of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to refundable credits) is amended by inserting after section 25D the following new section:</text> <quoted-block act-name="" id="id796B26425585468AAB66B1F29143B625" style="OLC"> <section id="id5224850B85E74ADB84E79D05A21108A4"><enum>25E.</enum><header>Credit for purchase of homes in or near foreclosure</header> <subsection id="idFF6E92FE186D4C7BA3778383131F1ED6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Allowance of credit</header> <paragraph id="id3743483ECA864DE28A48FEE7A064F1A5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In the case of an individual who is a purchaser of a qualified principal residence during the taxable year, there shall be allowed as a credit against the tax imposed by this chapter an amount equal to so much of the purchase price of the residence as does not exceed $15,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idF316E6A8CC11480EB760FD2FAED200B6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Allocation of credit amount</header><text>The amount of the credit allowed under paragraph (1) shall be equally divided among the 3 taxable years beginning with the taxable year in which the purchase of the qualified principal residence is made.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id9DE7E5CDA9C84DBCB732CE50A244B904"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitations</header> <paragraph id="id7D599410A9624BFEA74E1DE5148A66EC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Date of purchase</header><text>The credit allowed under subsection (a) shall be allowed only with respect to purchases made—</text> <subparagraph id="id953019E192B94AB7B32844F9A0F28861"><enum>(A)</enum><text>after February 29, 2008, and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7D26180C5AF2438F8A9ADC684FEC12DC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>before March 1, 2009.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idA8F59AD4C3D54D87A95FD6845342DADA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation based on amount of tax</header><text>In the case of a taxable year to which section 26(a)(2) does not apply, the credit allowed under subsection (a) for any taxable year shall not exceed the excess of—</text> <subparagraph id="idB7BB9BEEE47747FB999C9D272A4154F5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the sum of the regular tax liability (as defined in section 26(b)) plus the tax imposed by section 55, over</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA836511D1DD14D4F8402A11BA57FA102"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the sum of the credits allowable under this subpart (other than this section) for the taxable year.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id4ED379E2CE2941D3BBD5BDCB272CC175"><enum>(3)</enum><header>One-time only</header> <subparagraph id="id1BA25C3B979347F9BEF6234E01DF20DD"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If a credit is allowed under this section in the case of any individual (and such individual's spouse, if married) with respect to the purchase of any qualified principal residence, no credit shall be allowed under this section in any taxable year with respect to the purchase of any other qualified principal residence by such individual or a spouse of such individual.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id78631E989B1A444787C91FC507BA806F"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Joint purchase</header><text>In the case of a purchase of a qualified principal residence by 2 or more unmarried individuals or by 2 married individuals filing separately, no credit shall be allowed under this section if a credit under this section has been allowed to any of such individuals in any taxable year with respect to the purchase of any other qualified principal residence.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id75919FA796374AC0B503B6371059E10F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Qualified principal residence</header> <paragraph id="id78695F17ADD84991B71CC961CD8293E4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For purposes of this section, the term <term>qualified principal residence</term> means an eligible single-family residence that is purchased to be the principal residence of the purchaser.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id4E69549FF8EC47A4B1C93C9DA6880DD0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligible single-family residence</header> <subparagraph id="idCDF6FF1EF3D64F0C974C0569CBBF13F3"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <term>eligible single-family residence</term> means a single-family structure that is—</text> <clause id="idFF5D6EA1612A4407840442371A849469"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a new previously unoccupied residence for which a building permit is issued and construction begins on or before September 1, 2007, but only if such residence is purchased by the taxpayer directly from the person to whom such building permit was issued,</text> </clause><clause id="idA3E4ED96A1EC4D5E8A13FA8CDAF1F9C7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>an owner-occupied residence with respect to which the owner's acquisition indebtedness (as defined in section 163(h)(3)(B), determined without regard to clause (ii) thereof) is in default on or before March 1, 2008, or</text> </clause><clause id="id7383A6CF4E074D30A5CFA7D79C1CE46F"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a residence with respect to which a foreclosure event has taken place and which is owned by the mortgagor or the mortgagor's agent, but only if such residence was occupied as a principal residence by the mortgagee for at least 1 year prior to the foreclosure event.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idF6B3C4084BA042A19637AB3A0E4A91C3"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Certification</header><text>In the case of an eligible single-family residence described in subparagraph (A)(i), no credit shall be allowed under this section unless the purchaser submits a certification by the seller of such residence that such residence meets the requirements of such subparagraph.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idC21AC02ECA2447FB827347212D725F08"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Denial of double benefit</header><text>No credit shall be allowed under this section for any purchase for which a credit is allowed under section 1400C.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id363C86C627D84F17B3830F4566DF0DA1"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Recapture in the case of certain dispositions</header><text>In the event that a taxpayer—</text> <paragraph id="id8CA6CDB6B12F42BAB37AD8281EBC4338"><enum>(1)</enum><text>disposes of the qualified principal residence with respect to which a credit is allowed under subsection (a), or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id80C6EBCBC54A489BBCD62D40C9581654"><enum>(2)</enum><text>fails to occupy such residence as the taxpayer's principal residence,</text> </paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">at any time within 36 months after the date on which the taxpayer purchased such residence, then the remaining portion of the credit allowed under subsection (a) shall be disallowed in the taxable year during which such disposition occurred or in which the taxpayer failed to occupy the residence as a principal residence, and in any subsequent taxable year in which the remaining portion of the credit would, but for this subsection, have been allowed.</continuation-text></subsection><subsection id="id9403E3DF8C514E8F95C0D9681B34FAFE"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Special rules</header> <paragraph id="id82E97C6071AF4D3EB8C82DABE445145B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Joint purchase</header> <subparagraph id="id515D49E8423147ABAA52BFFF35576058"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Married individuals filing separately</header><text>In the case of 2 married individuals filing separately, subsection (a) shall be applied to each such individual by substituting <quote>$7,500</quote> for <quote>$15,000</quote> in subsection (a)(1).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id18E19045B6134563B84C89B17678F05E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Unmarried individuals</header><text>If 2 or more individuals who are not married purchase a qualified principal residence, the amount of the credit allowed under subsection (a) shall be allocated among such individuals in such manner as the Secretary may prescribe, except that the total amount of the credits allowed to all such individuals shall not exceed $15,000.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id6AB624887EAD468EA8C1D9DBC991FC20"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Purchase</header><text>In defining the purchase of a qualified principal residence, rules similar to the rules of paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 1400C(e) (as in effect on the date of the enactment of this section) shall apply.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id8B424507BEF34821923BA1731A3B891A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Reporting requirement</header><text>Rules similar to the rules of section 1400C(f) (as so in effect) shall apply.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id613F3932136A4E5EB3F9D6EB71B296BF"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Basis adjustment</header><text>For purposes of this subtitle, if a credit is allowed under this section with respect to the purchase of any residence, the basis of such residence shall be reduced by the amount of the credit so allowed.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="idB780D0F6D8CA400C8476DF30AC0FE931"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of sections for subpart A of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 25D the following new item:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBE1241B820E24A95B61D17DF0C605248" style="OLC"> <toc> <toc-entry level="section">Sec. 25E. Credit for certain home purchases.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section id="IDff5844e56ffd4a2d9d2a4b6a5c7b9f9c"><enum>104.</enum><header>Enhanced mortgage loan disclosures</header> <subsection id="IDc37b22dfad774eb4a408b115d2ab8ba9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Truth in lending Act disclosures</header><text>Section 128(b)(2) of the Truth in Lending Act (15 U.S.C. 1638(b)(2)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="IDfcbf8660f33648578139c38fb0b5769f"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(A)</quote> before <quote>In the</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID97a3e35d02e94a65833ebca2130b23ea"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>a residential mortgage transaction, as defined in section 103(w)</quote> and inserting <quote>any extension of credit that is secured by the dwelling of a consumer</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID77d234ee04ac43edb607fba5c52d2831"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking <quote>shall be made in accordance</quote> and all that follows through <quote>extended, or</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ID185cf90987764dee9e57ebd9b14a0e3d"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking <quote>If the</quote> and all that follows through the end of the paragraph and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE02BA6D81D5F4E9FA1CC290242A4344C" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="IDc5b52d2c5166442eaa7da832f043bfd0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>In the case of an extension of credit that is secured by the dwelling of a consumer, in addition to the other disclosures required by subsection (a), the disclosures provided under this paragraph shall—</text> <clause id="ID36e468eb39414b86819ed386551305fe"><enum>(i)</enum><text>state in conspicuous type size and format, the following: <quote>You are not required to complete this agreement merely because you have received these disclosures or signed a loan application.</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause id="IDc97883a4e9834808917bf43ed63a9bc8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>be furnished to the borrower not later than 7 business days before the date of consummation of the transaction, and at the time of consummation of the transaction, subject to subparagraph (D).</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDab54a28a8db44a058fe4f0ac1fb05b87"><enum>(C)</enum><text>In the case of an extension of credit that is secured by the dwelling of a consumer, under which the annual rate of interest is variable, or with respect to which the regular payments may otherwise be variable, in addition to the other disclosures required by subsection (a), the disclosures provided under this paragraph shall—</text> <clause id="IDd18585c872c24339af7e7cb8c1ca02c7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>label the payment schedule as follows: <quote>Payment Schedule: Payments Will Vary Based on Interest Rate Changes</quote>;</text> </clause><clause id="ID9965552a0807401497ad0683bb7c7e28"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>state the maximum amount of the regular required payments on the loan, based on the maximum interest rate allowed, introduced with the following language in conspicuous type size and format: <quote>Your payment can go as high as $_______</quote>, the blank to be filled in with the maximum possible payment amount;</text> </clause><clause id="IDd735e10413714bc9b1ea89e3965ec875"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>if the loan is an adjustable rate mortgage that includes an initial fixed interest rate—</text> <subclause id="ID50dbd4c1ddd4431ab444638912fe9ad9"><enum>(I)</enum><text>state in conspicuous type size and format the following phrase: This loan is an adjustable rate mortgage with an initial fixed interest rate. Your initial fixed interest rate is AAA with a monthly payment of BBB until CCC. After that date, the interest rate on your loan will <quote>reset</quote> to an adjustable rate and both your interest rate and payment could go higher on that date and in the future. For example, if your initial fixed rate ended today, your new adjustable interest rate would be DDD and your new payment EEE. If interest rates are one percent higher than they are today or at some point in the future, your new payment would be FFF. There is no guarantee you will be able to refinance your loan to a lower interest rate and payment before your initial fixed interest rate ends.;</text> </subclause><subclause id="IDb5b0889b3def475993e7b49b515c8da6"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the blank AAA in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the initial fixed interest rate;</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID0f274fad611c4149ade3c7798934f241"><enum>(III)</enum><text>the blank BBB in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the payment amount under the initial fixed interest rate;</text> </subclause><subclause id="IDba04f543d23d4a6d9fca7211d84868c1"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>the blank CCC in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the loan reset date;</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID231d18c7bcd5431c9de3f6772b2e86e2"><enum>(V)</enum><text>the blank DDD in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the adjustable rate as if the initial rate expired on the date of disclosure under subparagraph (B);</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID9e5303e322a8427fba8ab62112b26a45"><enum>(VI)</enum><text>the blank EEE in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the payment under the adjustable rate as if the initial rate expired on the date of disclosure under subparagraph (B); and</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID6cf44bd294434101abf19ac044456a42"><enum>(VII)</enum><text>the blank FFF in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the payment under the adjustable rate as if index rate on which the adjustable rate was one percent higher than of the date of disclosure under subparagraph (B); and</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="ID47736a9fd8b44a68889f4dc1b9d7a8b3"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>if the loan contains a prepayment penalty—</text> <subclause id="IDde64cbd28dbf4000a321602f34918ff8"><enum>(I)</enum><text>state in conspicuous type and format the following phrase: This loan contains a prepayment penalty. If you desire to pay off this loan before GGG, you will pay a penalty of HHH.;</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID0f314dbdaa3245e9b930228634264ab5"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the blank GGG in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the date the prepayment penalty expires; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="ID6b3c4a5a4bc74e98b0d59d2a2c58214f"><enum>(III)</enum><text>the blank HHH in subparagraph (I) to be filled in with the prepayment penalty amount.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID6568aaa5a7594857b8d6723db23624d9"><enum>(D)</enum><text>In any case in which the disclosure statement provided 7 business days before the date of consummation of the transaction contains an annual percentage rate of interest that is no longer accurate, as determined under section 107(c), the creditor shall furnish an additional, corrected statement to the borrower, not later than 3 business days before the date of consummation of the transaction.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID21fc5ebaedeb4f75b083b7b1b33eacc2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Civil liability</header><text>Section 130(a) of the Truth in Lending Act (15 U.S.C. 1640(a)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="IDa20b596177da42cabf8b7460ad7b6141"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(A)(iii), by striking <quote>not less than $200 or greater than $2,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$5,000, such amount to be adjusted annually based on the consumer price index, to maintain current value</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="IDc65d55e056494e5b8631aa2e7140847f"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the penultimate sentence of the undesignated matter following paragraph (4)—</text> <subparagraph id="ID20934f8091dd4c5aa3d50fa7e6bef58c"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>only for</quote> and inserting <quote>for</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDf4261827bd5b4617841e98a4c4b1c34c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 125 or</quote> and inserting <quote>section 122, section 125,</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID0b22fdff10ae4c388d75ff56712e4cf6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or section 128(b),</quote> after <quote>128(a),</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID767e17c3b677476aaf376fe291b206a5"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or section 128(b)</quote> before the period.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="IDF2B306F1EC2946B2A9FADC6CD59E0064" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</enum><header>Carryback of certain net operating losses allowed for 5 years; temporary suspension of 90 percent AMT limit</header> <subsection id="IDD943244B9DEB4EE9985280327EEDEA04"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subparagraph (H) of section 172(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA72692128AA14D7793AAC4908BAEA451" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="idC598B916365045FCBA79AA54E5298A60"><enum>(H)</enum><header>5-year carryback of certain losses</header> <clause id="id07DDAB8475FD4DAC8D0C4577DF2777F6"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Taxable years ending during 2001 and 2002</header><text>In the case of a net operating loss for any taxable year ending during 2001 or 2002, subparagraph (A)(i) shall be applied by substituting <quote>5</quote> for <quote>2</quote> and subparagraph (F) shall not apply.</text> </clause><clause id="id489C33104EC946CEB63C04DDAD137BA5"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Taxable years ending during 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009</header><text>In the case of a net operating loss for any taxable year ending during 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009—</text> <subclause id="idC8362D5196424425B44AF9DEA92DCC6B"><enum>(I)</enum><text>subparagraph (A)(i) shall be applied by substituting <quote>5</quote> for <quote>2</quote>,</text> </subclause><subclause id="id79EF2CBB8EF44E6AB9223320FBEDD6B2"><enum>(II)</enum><text>subparagraph (E)(ii) shall be applied by substituting <quote>4</quote> for <quote>2</quote>, and</text> </subclause><subclause id="id1420B883D27E4091B4D54969FC72BA6A"><enum>(III)</enum><text>subparagraph (F) shall not apply.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="ID70E44446FEB74F1B81A8C39E6047CEF1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Temporary suspension of 90 percent limit on certain NOL carrybacks and carryovers</header> <paragraph id="id1A45B12EA2E74ECD8F7406CD3455F064"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 56(d) of the of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2AAB59D8EF994C9FAD4C2E0B0FC2880E" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="idF092949B7FD64A1683A2F728245E8B29"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Additional adjustments</header><text>For purposes of paragraph (1)(A), the amount described in clause (I) of paragraph (1)(A)(ii) shall be increased by the amount of the net operating loss deduction allowable for the taxable year under section 172 attributable to the sum of—</text> <subparagraph id="idC114BC22B3C7447F8EBF80D6E846446F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>carrybacks of net operating losses from taxable years ending during 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE061D523FC534D6E9F11F8BBEED98A96"><enum>(B)</enum><text>carryovers of net operating losses to taxable years ending during 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="id1616A021C57C4E688548621183A01B25"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Subclause (I) of section 56(d)(1)(A)(i) of such Code is amended by inserting <quote>amount of such</quote> before <quote>deduction described in clause (ii)(I)</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id43F87EDF37EA4DA78C56593B3AF3B88F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Anti-abuse rules</header><text>The Secretary of Treasury or the Secretary's designee shall prescribes such rules as are necessary to prevent the abuse of the purposes of the amendments made by this section, including anti-stuffing rules, anti-churning rules (including rules relating to sale-leasebacks), and rules similar to the rules under section 1091 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 relating to losses from wash sales.</text> </subsection><subsection id="ID307DEB8A7A7B464084744F79833C2D7E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective dates</header> <paragraph id="IDA1EBF98DB0C748709A9EBF12D6289B19"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Subsection <enum-in-header>(a)</enum-in-header></header> <subparagraph id="id82CBA5AA7375447ABF191BE2C81717CD"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to net operating losses arising in taxable years ending in 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID44FA5E4C7A834A6FA35C8E255FB483C7"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Election</header><text>In the case of a net operating loss for a taxable year ending during 2006 or 2007—</text> <clause id="IDF006C55BB7F34FD69CD41D7FA073E603"><enum>(i)</enum><text>any election made under section 172(b)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 may (notwithstanding such section) be revoked before November 1, 2008, and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID51BB518D54FF477BA2D662BA715DC014"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any election made under section 172(j) of such Code shall (notwithstanding such section) be treated as timely made if made before November 1, 2008.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD875F678C2274583993756996B965364"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Subsection <enum-in-header>(b)</enum-in-header></header><text>The amendments made by subsection (b) shall apply to taxable years ending after December 31, 1995.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header>Mortgage Foreclosure Protections for Servicemembers</header> <section id="idB4BCF93180FA4904AF125F80BDEA2D22"><enum>201.</enum><header>Expansion of period after servicemember service of moratorium on foreclosure sales</header> <subsection id="id41BA80E34E164325BDA1D07BAAA7C984"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 303(c) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. App. 533(c)) is amended by striking <quote>90 days</quote> and inserting <quote>6 months</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id785D7B6486734110AF8A9DB227B049EA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date; sunset</header> <paragraph id="id3B4490FA60FD4DF8BBAAED5AD07E3DF8"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id787395CC07EB48E5BD7C889835EA492F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Sunset</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall expire on December 31, 2010. Effective January 1, 2011, the provisions of section 303(c) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act, are hereby revived.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id2A32B5C3AE88401F9ACA5CD4CEDEAE65"><enum>202.</enum><header>Counseling on mortgage foreclosures for members of the Armed Forces returning from service abroad</header> <subsection id="idAC9D202816F54CEFBA4986F5857D1EB2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Defense shall develop and implement a program to advise members of the Armed Forces (including members of the National Guard and Reserve) who are returning from service on active duty abroad (including service in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom) on actions to be taken by such members to prevent or forestall mortgage foreclosures.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id4F219F29928A404E8B8AF4E50CE9B7AC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Elements</header><text>The program required by subsection (a) shall include the following:</text> <paragraph id="id2C88B898A2E94554B15735B5122EAF2D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Credit counseling.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idF7CDD220D5E040C986C9F519D70EE3F3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Home mortgage counseling.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id46231E4C2CCD42BBAF1BE565CACAECDB"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Such other counseling and information as the Secretary considers appropriate for purposes of the program.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id50E3DA5EACD247119B4771E29EAF2946"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Timing of provision of counseling</header><text>Counseling and other information under the program required by subsection (a) shall be provided to a member of the Armed Forces covered by the program as soon as practicable after the return of the member from service as described in subsection (a).</text> </subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header>FHA Modernization Act of 2008</header> <section id="id6BB5675542FF4D25B94948E5CCF72965"><enum>301.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote>FHA Modernization Act of 2008</quote>.</text> </section><subtitle commented="no" id="id34EFB84BE7AE4337B272596348FF0F61" level-type="subsequent"><enum>A</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Building American Homeownership</header> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id392BF573D7614CBC84BCC9547B2C3ED3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>311.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle may be cited as the <quote>Building American Homeownership Act of 2008</quote>.</text> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H60B7625FDFCA412A9E585307AF4CA67" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>312.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maximum principal loan obligation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Paragraph (2) of section 203(b)(2) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(b)(2)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF587D6C043024B1A97D1642734146709"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by amending subparagraphs (A) and (B) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id441F9702B6AB4F4E91704399A84C3724" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3059820FB3834DAA82B5EFE96EC4925"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not to exceed the lesser of—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA6CA95EE98A2420E9E7719C400B8D5CA"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of a 1-family residence, the median 1-family house price in the area, as determined by the Secretary; and in the case of a 2-, 3-, or 4-family residence, the percentage of such median price that bears the same ratio to such median price as the dollar amount limitation in effect under section 305(a)(2) of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act (12 U.S.C. 1454(a)(2)) for a 2-, 3-, or 4-family residence, respectively, bears to the dollar amount limitation in effect under such section for a 1-family residence; or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0BEB569CE7514EC895D44D16ADC05D7B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the dollar amount limitation determined under such section 305(a)(2) for a residence of the applicable size;</text> </clause><continuation-text commented="no" continuation-text-level="subparagraph">except that the dollar amount limitation in effect for any area under this subparagraph may not be less than the greater of (I) the dollar amount limitation in effect under this section for the area on October 21, 1998, or (II) 65 percent of the dollar limitation determined under such section 305(a)(2) for a residence of the applicable size; and</continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0E2B41EA8693417FB0C19B6072081E37"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not to exceed 100 percent of the appraised value of the property.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id73B5EC6AB9DC4DF49551C9938F103807"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter following subparagraph (B), by striking the second sentence (relating to a definition of <quote>average closing cost</quote>) and all that follows through <quote>section 3103A(d) of title 38, United States Code.</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id231152FEB52C451DBE63FC5E006EC8E0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>313.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cash investment requirement and prohibition of seller-funded downpayment assistance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Paragraph 9 of section 203(b) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(b)(9)) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDD286A70E6EF4819A41FDE751BB29105" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC948F606FDB24650A7A475584AADECDC"><enum>(9)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cash Investment requirement</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0C3464FDB93B4EE78BE987F6D4EEA7F0"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A mortgage insured under this section shall be executed by a mortgagor who shall have paid, in cash, on account of the property an amount equal to not less than 1.5 percent of the appraised value of the property or such larger amount as the Secretary may determine.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB19D36E8E7EB4DD38F81965B5434DB78"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Family members</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this paragraph, the Secretary shall consider as cash or its equivalent any amounts borrowed from a family member (as such term is defined in section 201), subject only to the requirements that, in any case in which the repayment of such borrowed amounts is secured by a lien against the property, that—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3118FA395E484120913FF26A3F121394"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such lien shall be subordinate to the mortgage; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEE98752B9E6F47F1BD4EE65D677B0113"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the sum of the principal obligation of the mortgage and the obligation secured by such lien may not exceed 100 percent of the appraised value of the property.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id58760A6BDD62428B85936FEF0EF04778"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prohibited sources</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In no case shall the funds required by subparagraph (A) consist, in whole or in part, of funds provided by any of the following parties before, during, or after closing of the property sale:</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3E49C517E4B7492198D0F0AAE57A96AB"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The seller or any other person or entity that financially benefits from the transaction.</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7CC17F2BBCAA4302980032297888B140"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any third party or entity that is reimbursed, directly or indirectly, by any of the parties described in clause (i).</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7DF1BB9B2337478299167F64F5B6578F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>314.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mortgage insurance premiums</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 203(c)(2) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(c)(2)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA08EFF3AC6144F33A1FC10F6C9F8B429"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>or of the General Insurance Fund</quote> and all that follows through <quote>section 234(c),,</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id77A8BD2D83FF42449194B7F62E08CF28"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3C98F2B12FFC4C3BB061F8F47EFB60A3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>2.25 percent</quote> and inserting <quote>3 percent</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id37014651D8E54659A1A32E0F349FF85E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>2.0 percent</quote> and inserting <quote>2.75 percent</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBFED2AC846684C6F8E272806A34650FF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>315.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rehabilitation loans</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subsection (k) of section 203 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(k)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7C0CC95DF7EC452CABCFECC8EE4C0215"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>on</quote> and all that follows through <quote>1978</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDA0CFABF1D2C4192B1CA49DB8DFF4AB"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (5)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB29CB42358FA42B39540B3159D00D432"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>General Insurance Fund</quote> the first place it appears and inserting <quote>Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8253660EBB8044DB98B271F64F3B8E13"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by striking the comma and all that follows through <quote>General Insurance Fund</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3BCFC19AF00C46F09DA988BF852588E7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>316.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Discretionary action</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The National Housing Act is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB411799C2E8042188561B9F156D87795"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (e) of section 202 (12 U.S.C. 1708(e))—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5CAE1DEE38E14CBE9B5E61BB00D04FBC"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3)(B), by striking <quote>section 202(e) of the National Housing Act</quote> and inserting <quote>this subsection</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9F50402CFD9E44BA9E689DF0DA5E1FEA"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating such subsection as subsection (f);</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H158D663824A24F80AD47729355CC9EC0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking paragraph (4) of section 203(s) (12 U.S.C. 1709(s)(4)) and inserting the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2E4EDB2132FE4E088240B7A4352C8059" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H40E91ABDFEA947CA94B0B914BECA5E60"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary of Agriculture;</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0C9A08D0225444FCB657DD9574A1AB4E"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by transferring subsection (s) of section 203 (as amended by paragraph (2) of this section) to section 202, inserting such subsection after subsection (d) of section 202, and redesignating such subsection as subsection (e).</text> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H80CCF6DC3C75403099291800744ED004" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>317.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Insurance of condominiums</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0E756DBD50D542D7A40057CE54D6576D"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 234 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715y) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEDAA016FC75F48CBB9CAFF7334C1E7A6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c), in the first sentence—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFA4FAEED1CC64116A8463B36EFDB1DE3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and</quote> before <quote>(2)</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC29D39E659EA4355A5986FCA093BF3C2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>, and (3) the project has a blanket mortgage insured by the Secretary under subsection (d)</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H07F8AB7E49D74D9FBD5B826CF0A2FFD4"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (g), by striking <quote>, except that</quote> and all that follows and inserting a period.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H476EFC54B64644EB84CCDF19456E5F63"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of Mortgage</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 201(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/12/1707">12 U.S.C. 1707(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6A272DEEACC0413E9BEF3F3C51D56E5D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">before <quote>a first mortgage</quote> insert <quote>(A)</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5123D502381B445DAC5C42ADC66EE483"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>or on a leasehold (1)</quote> and inserting <quote>(B) a first mortgage on a leasehold on real estate (i)</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6735BFD3903A4F2B8233A4DF334E2049"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>or (2)</quote> and inserting <quote>, or (ii)</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H836ACA2051234E2A8BFDEC342E080075"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting before the semicolon the following: <quote>, or (C) a first mortgage given to secure the unpaid purchase price of a fee interest in, or long-term leasehold interest in, real estate consisting of a one-family unit in a multifamily project, including a project in which the dwelling units are attached, or are manufactured housing units, semi-detached, or detached, and an undivided interest in the common areas and facilities which serve the project</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H885D3E92E4D5448F8769D85FB4397B18"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of real estate</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 201 of the National Housing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/12/1707">12 U.S.C. 1707</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H77F30B42104D4DF2B400A8C0602C793D" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H928DC41E3258437491E46CC4A4FEB01"><enum>(g)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>real estate</term> means land and all natural resources and structures permanently affixed to the land, including residential buildings and stationary manufactured housing. The Secretary may not require, for treatment of any land or other property as real estate for purposes of this title, that such land or property be treated as real estate for purposes of State taxation.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE4C61BA8EF27450F91624B5CC31BAF90" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>318.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD9547D0BF6A440D6BCE793A396145113"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) of section 202 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1708(a)) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8DCD0CBD21284FD900A8E7F8B56200AC" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H524E07606D5F4C1DA1683126D0593ECA"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2D974CAF8AE44CE99F19DD6EC2DD89D6"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the provisions of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, there is hereby created a Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (in this title referred to as the <quote>Fund</quote>), which shall be used by the Secretary to carry out the provisions of this title with respect to mortgages insured under section 203. The Secretary may enter into commitments to guarantee, and may guarantee, such insured mortgages.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6ADEB692C33740F9A257175CF4EFDCFC"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limit on loan guarantees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The authority of the Secretary to enter into commitments to guarantee such insured mortgages shall be effective for any fiscal year only to the extent that the aggregate original principal loan amount under such mortgages, any part of which is guaranteed, does not exceed the amount specified in appropriations Acts for such fiscal year.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H14532D8E24244D3E825C59A22799DC2B"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fiduciary responsibility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary has a responsibility to ensure that the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund remains financially sound.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9D476CCF3DBE4CD198875197A07780F3"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual independent actuarial study</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall provide for an independent actuarial study of the Fund to be conducted annually, which shall analyze the financial position of the Fund. The Secretary shall submit a report annually to the Congress describing the results of such study and assessing the financial status of the Fund. The report shall recommend adjustments to underwriting standards, program participation, or premiums, if necessary, to ensure that the Fund remains financially sound.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAEDC349B35FA485685B516BFADF02EAA"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Quarterly reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">During each fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Congress for each calendar quarter, which shall specify for mortgages that are obligations of the Fund—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H03C496D651774FF3814FFF37CF5F66E9"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the cumulative volume of loan guarantee commitments that have been made during such fiscal year through the end of the quarter for which the report is submitted;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE91B6B214D6D47BBABC6D1ABF829C3E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the types of loans insured, categorized by risk;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE289A415663048E2B27D000058CCE6FD"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any significant changes between actual and projected claim and prepayment activity;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H300D6168D8A3416BA44278277E71A48C"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">projected versus actual loss rates; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H51DB741F86E246808D910048CAD5270"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">updated projections of the annual subsidy rates to ensure that increases in risk to the Fund are identified and mitigated by adjustments to underwriting standards, program participation, or premiums, and the financial soundness of the Fund is maintained.</text> </subparagraph><continuation-text commented="no" continuation-text-level="paragraph">The first quarterly report under this paragraph shall be submitted on the last day of the first quarter of fiscal year 2008, or on the last day of the first full calendar quarter following the enactment of the Building American Homeownership Act of 2008, whichever is later.</continuation-text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA45B54F5F0C8464BB4A9C158F7B3A66B"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Adjustment of premiums</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If, pursuant to the independent actuarial study of the Fund required under paragraph (4), the Secretary determines that the Fund is not meeting the operational goals established under paragraph (7) or there is a substantial probability that the Fund will not maintain its established target subsidy rate, the Secretary may either make programmatic adjustments under this title as necessary to reduce the risk to the Fund, or make appropriate premium adjustments.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE1AF2C2A2E394776A5282BD33C2431E1"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operational goals</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The operational goals for the Fund are—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H94954EB44B6D4AD2A8F4C4A6D78100A2"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to minimize the default risk to the Fund and to homeowners by among other actions instituting fraud prevention quality control screening not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of the Building American Homeownership Act of 2008; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7FC06B590A4B416492495E6CF2C1D393"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to meet the housing needs of the borrowers that the single family mortgage insurance program under this title is designed to serve.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1ECBD4D83BF949CDB97CD4A3FC8B6E26"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Obligations of Fund</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The National Housing Act is amended as follows:</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCB8987B1821744CBA3A83FB61DE32478"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Homeownership voucher program mortgages</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In section 203(v) (12 U.S.C. 1709(v))—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF9CEF13121534D6E8B55F18EAF3DC8B0"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Notwithstanding section 202 of this title, the</quote> and inserting <quote>The</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD0574308ECBD465097C3AD15AD6673BA"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>General Insurance Fund</quote> the first place such term appears and all that follows through the end of the subsection and inserting <quote>Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund.</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2544F362EF204017B622E024D65E62C6"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Home equity conversion mortgages</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 255(i)(2)(A) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–20(i)(2)(A)) is amended by striking <quote>General Insurance Fund</quote> and inserting <quote>Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA34793EE40B443ED9E97E61C008C9DEB"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The National Housing Act is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBBFEA1C548B948E48C5EB00021CC15BB"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 205 (12 U.S.C. 1711), by striking subsections (g) and (h); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0B356972B53A410E9FE9004052DD1BE8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 519(e) (12 U.S.C. 1735c(e)), by striking <quote>203(b)</quote> and all that follows through <quote>203(i)</quote> and inserting <quote>203, except as determined by the Secretary</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8FAABBE885674EC282A0E8C5E55254D8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>319.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hawaiian home lands and Indian reservations</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H507780A251794CDFBAAEBCB2033BACA4"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hawaiian home lands</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 247(c) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–12(c)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H553F5BE21F7240B2A713C3121554B7D6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>General Insurance Fund established in section 519</quote> and inserting <quote>Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAA8A0707991A4096BCE8A69965552407"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by striking <quote>(1) all references</quote> and all that follows through <quote>and (2)</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H636BB133975B4FF79942F4A12092573E"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Indian reservations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 248(f) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–13(f)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFFB5CA8895BB427686DD08D85600DEF9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>General Insurance Fund</quote> the first place it appears through <quote>519</quote> and inserting <quote>Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5D3EC7E665804F27B1C25EE28DA14C3B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by striking <quote>(1) all references</quote> and all that follows through <quote>and (2)</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H34755892DFAA4BC386E1793CC284EAC5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>320.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming and technical amendments</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H103280FFE15C4D9CBC8231A400487D93"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Repeals</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The following provisions of the National Housing Act are repealed:</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4EB94FE578E24027A05DCB69519DC6EA"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (i) of section 203 (12 U.S.C. 1709(i)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD916573E2AFF4C26A5DC280000469C68"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (o) of section 203 (12 U.S.C. 1709(o)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H65CAD5FF329A4AE88CADE891E35E705D"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (p) of section 203 (12 U.S.C. 1709(p)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB19B229995984899AD4BA17F9BDA243F"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (q) of section 203 (12 U.S.C. 1709(q)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H999410D928634C6290EFEBA9A4C3157C"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 222 (12 U.S.C. 1715m).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD24E94D015B04464983400EB54ECA046"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 237 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–2).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H97052E9C73BC4CEB9CA8C3A015C8FFB0"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 245 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–10).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5346814420E84403978325E9487B5F3F"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of area</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 203(u)(2)(A) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(u)(2)(A)) is amended by striking <quote>shall</quote> and all that follows and inserting <quote>means a metropolitan statistical area as established by the Office of Management and Budget;</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD8ED76BAAAE44D68BD7D6DBB60BE47FC"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of State</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 201(d) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1707(d)) is amended by striking <quote>the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands</quote> and inserting <quote>the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands</quote>.</text> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB125873B0A7C44538E12F4FF1C1E382D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>321.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Insurance of mortgages</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subsection (n)(2) of section 203 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(n)(2)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDddef9ddf41d54b88a9ef92336f4365b5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), by inserting <quote>or subordinate mortgage or</quote> before <quote>lien given</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6B553233A9AD4521923B8202DF6FFA88"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C), by inserting <quote>or subordinate mortgage or</quote> before <quote>lien</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3E57A7AF24894A139FC8C5087EB873C0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>322.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Home equity conversion mortgages</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7E5DBF1FB2294F26A90648F8BA5C7CA8"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 255 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/12/1715z-20">12 U.S.C. 1715z–20</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFF466F944C2F4A869C97E3033418951D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)(2), insert <quote><quote>real estate,</quote></quote> after <quote><quote>mortgagor</quote>,</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6A3591BB22904827846C00AB6DFDD19F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (g)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0495366D0A974A91A77FE29BCA092DFA"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the first sentence; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H257FDE6A07BC4A40AB6BC5A4B09F00F6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>established under section 203(b)(2)</quote> and all that follows through <quote>located</quote> and inserting <quote>limitation established under section 305(a)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FHLMCA">Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act</act-name> for a 1-family residence</quote>;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H63CE18215B1A414D00D13C60B59347CE"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (i)(1)(C), by striking <quote>limitations</quote> and inserting <quote>limitation</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB0399C151AF44AB8A48F578900D8CBB2"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H34C3F0E1DFFE4C93AA63B154DD2CA597" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF59798CA590845B3B1EC922B786E5F46"><enum>(o)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authority To Insure Home Purchase Mortgage</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H30699D06E4C44EEF86F272C7E6F8A855"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Secretary may insure, upon application by a mortgagee, a home equity conversion mortgage upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, when the home equity conversion mortgage will be used to purchase a 1- to 4-family dwelling unit, one unit of which that the mortgagor will occupy as a primary residence, and to provide for any future payments to the mortgagor, based on available equity, as authorized under subsection (d)(9).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF26A1BCC45A94D2FA8407DDBA4E1AB07"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on principal obligation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A home equity conversion mortgage insured pursuant to paragraph (1) shall involve a principal obligation that does not exceed the dollar amount limitation determined under section 305(a)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FHLMCA">Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act</act-name> for a 1-family residence.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H807E8D50A67D4DE3AE8C372B7B3F7630"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mortgages for Cooperatives</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b) of section 255 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1715z–20(b)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6DD469FBA14742C5BC518F19D3B4B711"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7EA8E1EC7C71472587CAE0F9A4601333"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>a first or subordinate mortgage or lien</quote> before <quote>on all stock</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7EB49BE095474EC29B1700263F781959"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>unit</quote> after <quote>dwelling</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBA7F317086BB4B6BB1DBADE9A6472BF"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>a first mortgage or first lien</quote> before <quote>on a leasehold</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC1245008064F4E3BA6EBE3BFA8856B00"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (5), by inserting <quote>a first or subordinate lien on</quote> before <quote>all stock</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE190CA3D783F4F7F99297EA71E724B3C"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on origination fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 255 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–20), as amended by the preceding provisions of this section, is further amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0999D3A48B1F418E9400833D36D638BA"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (k), (l), and (m) as subsections (l), (m), and (n), respectively; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB97AACA8DAA9480A80BC8D16E5FFD49B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (j) the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H34979EFD7C4941B6BB93247ECE332564" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H561223F74F714AD99492E18536FA15F3"><enum>(k)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on origination fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall establish limits on the origination fee that may be charged to a mortgagor under a mortgage insured under this section, which limitations shall—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H578E01F11C764D178E16D120094F69D7"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">equal 1.5 percent of the maximum claim amount of the mortgage unless adjusted thereafter on the basis of—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFA04F50D3584496F851C30F1083219D2"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the costs to the mortgagor; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3EA192C9894249A1A4E48A33DA382A72"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the impact of such fees on the reverse mortgage market;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE204BEE665614F41BDC04EE48900EFFA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be subject to a minimum allowable amount;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5F01A217F0704CAE8EF4C77DC5325B59"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide that the origination fee may be fully financed with the mortgage;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1F9C1B5376AC4D22B8675D34CB417EC5"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include any fees paid to correspondent mortgagees approved by the Secretary; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id308844CBB2AF4B94BE2854364878C313"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have the same effective date as subsection (o)(2) regarding the limitation on principal obligation.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDcbfaf859d0a941cab67231d72211afe4"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Study regarding program costs and credit availability</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA17A2BA6F2784ECAA47C8E40071D1492"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study regarding the costs and availability of credit under the home equity conversion mortgages for elderly homeowners program under section 255 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–20) (in this subsection referred to as the <quote>program</quote>).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE03BF6CD4F9D41E4B8B67A3F03866046"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Purpose</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The purpose of the study required under paragraph (1) is to help Congress analyze and determine the effects of limiting the amounts of the costs or fees under the program from the amounts charged under the program as of the date of the enactment of this title.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE7474EDEC6264C0491E19D4C3E773046"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Content of report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The study required under paragraph (1) should focus on—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE8EB169DB5FE4197A96FA8291155DA6A"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the cost to mortgagors of participating in the program;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6E4C2EA340754CE9A64B4CC20EC5F3A5"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the financial soundness of the program;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id444A1BAA5C544EEC9324760AE848C40C"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the availability of credit under the program; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6361D5A4F48B4DEB93F002822EDC8FD2"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the costs to elderly homeowners participating in the program, including—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD97257AC824F4F9FA63E7E6880B129F5"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">mortgage insurance premiums charged under the program;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id05978426AA09468AA53C8006600A61D4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">up-front fees charged under the program; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD42A8D2B8ADA4123B0F4E454053FFB5C"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">margin rates charged under the program.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id60D279F47AEB40BB8094B5F45F1A89F9"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Timing of report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 12 months after the date of the enactment of this title, the Comptroller General shall submit a report to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives setting forth the results and conclusions of the study required under paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF0A4DB35D6F04D6BAD33EC1F97E0DCC8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>323.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Energy efficient mortgages program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 106(a)(2) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 12712 note) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id68BC7E29FEED4DD9AD147F63798D8B1A"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by amending subparagraph (C) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id801772EA029B4A359C1509144D9E7EBA" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDbcd5ba65168240b9835bf1a9467874be"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Costs of improvements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The cost of cost-effective energy efficiency improvements shall not exceed the greater of—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID78671701a0ff4f29b9315df3bbb86ac6"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">5 percent of the property value (not to exceed 5 percent of the limit established under section 203(b)(2)(A)) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(b)(2)(A); or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDeaa72e83718743109e8c2a126942d5fc"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 percent of the limit established under section 203(b)(2)(B) of such Act.</text> </clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id250543E2FD604BB98929D603D9CE185C"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDF7023F7F1904776A62BE4C8912E55C4" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1CFCD4B31A134CE4A1CB97051D1DC83C"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In any fiscal year, the aggregate number of mortgages insured pursuant to this section may not exceed 5 percent of the aggregate number of mortgages for 1- to 4-family residences insured by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under title II of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1707 et seq.) during the preceding fiscal year.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA5CA043CB86B4B1CAF6F31AD6B18B9AD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>324.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pilot program for automated process for borrowers without sufficient credit history</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H942CE104BA4A46AD9C5EC75D123FEA3F"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title II of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1707 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H407DB48CB2C74F75BFCC6FAB4FCA21CE" style="OLC"> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDD9A561C643E481991563889A52712D3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>257.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pilot program for automated process for borrowers without sufficient credit history</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H545EFEB2DFD14890A920D894BDD25C25"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall carry out a pilot program to establish, and make available to mortgagees, an automated process for providing alternative credit rating information for mortgagors and prospective mortgagors under mortgages on 1- to 4-family residences to be insured under this title who have insufficient credit histories for determining their creditworthiness. Such alternative credit rating information may include rent, utilities, and insurance payment histories, and such other information as the Secretary considers appropriate.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2B60EA5248CE4A9B00245BBF33EC76E"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Scope</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may carry out the pilot program under this section on a limited basis or scope, and may consider limiting the program to first-time homebuyers.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H73B6EDCD71D64E4691B4408C64BEA809"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In any fiscal year, the aggregate number of mortgages insured pursuant to the automated process established under this section may not exceed 5 percent of the aggregate number of mortgages for 1- to 4-family residences insured by the Secretary under this title during the preceding fiscal year.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5A77FBB7E73F402DA69DBB0000E682D0"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sunset</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">After the expiration of the 5-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of the Building American Homeownership Act of 2008, the Secretary may not enter into any new commitment to insure any mortgage, or newly insure any mortgage, pursuant to the automated process established under this section.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4A8248E396CB4E619C7B31DB00907D69"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">GAO report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than the expiration of the two-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this subtitle, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Congress a report identifying the number of additional mortgagors served using the automated process established pursuant to section 257 of the National Housing Act (as added by the amendment made by subsection (a) of this section) and the impact of such process and the insurance of mortgages pursuant to such process on the safety and soundness of the insurance funds under the National Housing Act of which such mortgages are obligations.</text> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id045EF686324C495C91E8AD594AA75A05" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>325.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Homeownership preservation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, in consultation with industry, the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, and other entities involved in foreclosure prevention activities, shall—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA5B782A426134679A5240F546A16A3BB"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">develop and implement a plan to improve the Federal Housing Administration's loss mitigation process; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id73B80DEFF5664252A5E640EB76043D10"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">report such plan to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives.</text> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id90A90C1CDBB8496ABAF2FE45CC98C975" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>326.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of FHA savings for improvements in FHA technologies, procedures, processes, program performance, staffing, and salaries</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id66B0C6DE2D74478F868AB8A5F39BBFA3"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2013, $25,000,000, from negative credit subsidy for the mortgage insurance programs under title II of the National Housing Act, to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for increasing funding for the purpose of improving technology, processes, program performance, eliminating fraud, and for providing appropriate staffing in connection with the mortgage insurance programs under title II of the National Housing Act.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5C1C4F1F39374D08AE0248EC014232F5"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Certification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The authorization under subsection (a) shall not be effective for a fiscal year unless the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development has, by rulemaking in accordance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code (notwithstanding subsections (a)(2), (b)(B), and (d)(3) of such section), made a determination that—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE7F056536C894A3DBF1443FD8E8ED860"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">premiums being, or to be, charged during such fiscal year for mortgage insurance under title II of the National Housing Act are established at the minimum amount sufficient to—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD86F6E5C7CB747FD815F700BB7A85184"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">comply with the requirements of section 205(f) of such Act (relating to required capital ratio for the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDA9E566E1B164C9A98E22834F1D70355"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure the safety and soundness of the other mortgage insurance funds under such Act; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id15BB3DAC09964FACA037161C19DEA998"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any negative credit subsidy for such fiscal year resulting from such mortgage insurance programs adequately ensures the efficient delivery and availability of such programs.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4559367C900946FABE89F3A814A4156A"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Study and report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall conduct a study to obtain recommendations from participants in the private residential (both single family and multifamily) mortgage lending business and the secondary market for such mortgages on how best to update and upgrade processes and technologies for the mortgage insurance programs under title II of the National Housing Act so that the procedures for originating, insuring, and servicing of such mortgages conform with those customarily used by secondary market purchasers of residential mortgage loans. Not later than the expiration of the 12-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this title, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Congress describing the progress made and to be made toward updating and upgrading such processes and technology, and providing appropriate staffing for such mortgage insurance programs.</text> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF4E8CDEA493C4616A286749C1CF4A683" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>327.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Post-purchase housing counseling eligibility improvements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 106(c)(4) of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C. 1701x(c)(4)) is amended:</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEDC98EE8BE1D4246877243F565D54890"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9D040020D0A5454C81B1D6719B7AC4A9"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (i), by striking <quote>; or</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF910678CE9E044768A208B35D1E13CA7"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB1BD2CE4CB374C3DAF16B9B9D27F1860"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE3E4C5885A004B71B6D899CB315666E6" style="OLC"> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2e5ed2fe14cc44b09ea76f840aab53c0"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a significant reduction in the income of the household due to divorce or death; or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5A521E0C5820474FA4939B0B1E7C3049"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a significant increase in basic expenses of the homeowner or an immediate family member of the homeowner (including the spouse, child, or parent for whom the homeowner provides substantial care or financial assistance) due to—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA117DDCDD1674856BACD8DEF3AC8D674"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an unexpected or significant increase in medical expenses;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0E3A8A6651144024991E8D8DE928D8CC"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a divorce;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE0AC431838424EFC8C43D28BBDEED0AD"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">unexpected and significant damage to the property, the repair of which will not be covered by private or public insurance; or</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFD6AB957034B493EB24E6EBBA108966B"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a large property-tax increase; or</text> </subclause></clause><after-quoted-block>; </after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id135E0A3762F74B27BE06EDF1DE1DAF6D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the matter that follows subparagraph (C); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id672BCE4D990B4C9A81588BECC54C2EFA"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id25DC734DC74241ACAC1D5B98D9E3ACD3" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC4D727B68EC5493BAFCAD467B401FB66"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development determines that the annual income of the homeowner is no greater than the annual income established by the Secretary as being of low- or moderate-income.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC1E74EC3BBE7469AB2018303BDAC4147" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>328.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pre-purchase homeownership counseling demonstration</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB153E2B3A55D44D698EA27DD096B4328"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the period beginning on the date of enactment of this title and ending on the date that is 3 years after such date of enactment, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall establish and conduct a demonstration program to test the effectiveness of alternative forms of pre-purchase homeownership counseling for eligible homebuyers.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id36274824B18148729CFF3637E093DA5F"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Forms of counseling</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall provide to eligible homebuyers pre-purchase homeownership counseling under this section in the form of—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id479DD10795C2447880B54F37833FD612"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">telephone counseling;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCD26994175004E01B0A72A2D2A3CC9BD"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">individualized in-person counseling;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF18E46C8C4CF41ADB94A4EB43E5F24B2"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">web-based counseling;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idED33E9F41E76485D87CF189A176AECEB"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">counseling classes; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA2AF67D3C8274BCDADF9BEFADEF91F40"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other form or type of counseling that the Secretary may, in his discretion, determine appropriate.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id02632B808FDB4A8081285548E4257823"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Size of program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall make available the pre-purchase homeownership counseling described in subsection (b) to not more than 3,000 eligible homebuyers in any given year.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id89F45ED5EA22477BA58606BC25FCEAE4"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Incentive to participate</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may provide incentives to eligible homebuyers to participate in the demonstration program established under subsection (a). Such incentives may include the reduction of any insurance premium charges owed by the eligible homebuyer to the Secretary.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7A8B45033755447983840D054F39C8F5"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible homebuyer defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section an <term>eligible homebuyer</term> means a first-time homebuyer who has been approved for a home loan with a loan-to-value ratio between 97 percent and 98.5 percent.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8338E178AD6D4152B436735AB0460848"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall report to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representative—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8DC1D4A74AEC4176A332702DEC54B2BC"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">on an annual basis, on the progress and results of the demonstration program established under subsection (a); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFC2DF268D29A454E9F3064CD19C41D3A"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this title and ending on the date that is 5 years after such date of enactment, on the payment history and delinquency rates of eligible homebuyers who participated in the demonstration program.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id138741B6E1B248929186A4E213699621" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>329.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fraud prevention</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1014 of title 18, United States Code, is amended in the first sentence—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id059F78951B0A4D6A8F043FAB64203DCA"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>the Federal Housing Administration</quote> before <quote>the Farm Credit Administration</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7C4DA36B1CB247CAB8A8C7EF6B9F5993"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>commitment, or loan</quote> and inserting <quote>commitment, loan, or insurance agreement or application for insurance or a guarantee</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBD60339D0A0240D38300B3122F42B213" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>330.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on mortgage insurance premium increases</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id104DE5532A584E5DA6EDD29DAF3FE6A5"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including any provision of this title and any amendment made by this title—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC4CE7BB28A1D4E418F673C9C40D97081"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this title and ending on October 1, 2009, the premiums charged for mortgage insurance under multifamily housing programs under the National Housing Act may not be increased above the premium amounts in effect under such program on October 1, 2006, unless the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development determines that, absent such increase, insurance of additional mortgages under such program would, under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, require the appropriation of new budget authority to cover the costs (as such term is defined in section 502 of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/2/661a">2 U.S.C. 661a</external-xref>) of such insurance; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAB605C019202426B8B76AA00D6BB94DD"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a premium increase pursuant to paragraph (1) may be made only if not less than 30 days prior to such increase taking effect, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id145417FA707C4137B44C1EFF634C54B1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">notifies the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives of such increase; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEF9AFD6AFB104BFF9BA45EAEF405667B"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">publishes notice of such increase in the Federal Register.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3FAE0EDF136E462DB74EC78FF0C32E47"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Waiver</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may waive the 30-day notice requirement under subsection (a)(2), if the Secretary determines that waiting 30-days before increasing premiums would cause substantial damage to the solvency of multifamily housing programs under the National Housing Act.</text> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF6C14D7C928A44D193E5D5CEED39EB7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>331.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Savings provision</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Any mortgage insured under title II of the National Housing Act before the date of enactment of this subtitle shall continue to be governed by the laws, regulations, orders, and terms and conditions to which it was subject on the day before the date of the enactment of this subtitle.</text> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1EB203B5CDF54E26AD1B25F463E90237" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>332.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall by notice establish any additional requirements that may be necessary to immediately carry out the provisions of this subtitle. The notice shall take effect upon issuance.</text> </section><section id="idB281CB5CAC09455C9C2E26C0D1502969"><enum>333.</enum><header>Moratorium on implementation of risk-based premiums</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the 12-month period beginning on the date of enactment of this title, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall not enact, execute, or take any action to make effective the planned implementation of risk-based premiums, which are designed for mortgage lenders to offer borrowers an FHA-insured product that provides a range of mortgage insurance premium pricing, based on the risk the insurance contract represents, as such planned implementation was set forth in the Notice published in the Federal Register on September 20, 2007 (Vol. 72, No. 182, Page 53872).</text> </section></subtitle><subtitle commented="no" id="id2D0AFDA7D3BA4F148CF25235E857BFC4" level-type="subsequent"><enum>B</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization</header> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEB11C33638A147DCA410D07D2F712D94" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>341.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle may be cited as the <quote><short-title>FHA Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act of 2008</short-title></quote>.</text> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2E9BA3AF138040B58CF20749B842131E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>342.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Purposes</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purposes of this subtitle are—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA0E867A939514CBC89E9F5FB99BAA457"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide adequate funding for FHA-insured manufactured housing loans for low- and moderate-income homebuyers during all economic cycles in the manufactured housing industry;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0F7ED3CB00484C02B597CA70258E2D3D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to modernize the FHA title I insurance program for manufactured housing loans to enhance participation by Ginnie Mae and the private lending markets; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H23BC04C7421A477AA3A82C61227F2694"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to adjust the low loan limits for title I manufactured home loan insurance to reflect the increase in costs since such limits were last increased in 1992 and to index the limits to inflation.</text> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H620282B4E4A04B2A9CDA415095AEC2EB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>343.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exception to limitation on financial institution portfolio</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The second sentence of section 2(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1703(a)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3036811AF97C4963A2A0D19BCFC2F959"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>In no case</quote> and inserting <quote>Other than in connection with a manufactured home or a lot on which to place such a home (or both), in no case</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCA14D97FC7B24B0BBCAC5722852E4657"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>: <italic>Provided</italic>, That with</quote> and inserting <quote>. With</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6ECC571793F34B4EA014BA3D00990057" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>344.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Insurance benefits</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H98D6B735E01644E8B17EDA6DA442E336"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b) of section 2 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1703(b)), is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block act-name="National Housing Act" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H58C079D5725949C9B03E2206D38D0067" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4516533010F94499947E44007E98C06D"><enum>(8)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Insurance benefits for manufactured housing loans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any contract of insurance with respect to loans, advances of credit, or purchases in connection with a manufactured home or a lot on which to place a manufactured home (or both) for a financial institution that is executed under this title after the date of the enactment of the <short-title>FHA Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act of 2008</short-title> by the Secretary shall be conclusive evidence of the eligibility of such financial institution for insurance, and the validity of any contract of insurance so executed shall be incontestable in the hands of the bearer from the date of the execution of such contract, except for fraud or misrepresentation on the part of such institution.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H23A241D5A6C748D181429E4491407C3F"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by subsection (a) shall only apply to loans that are registered or endorsed for insurance after the date of the enactment of this title.</text> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1E2A97751EB644B9AA25EB9B80D8C194" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>345.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maximum loan limits</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H591C4AA2105E40F8ACAC3A56DDE86FA"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Dollar Amounts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1) of section 2(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1703(b)(1)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF8F1B0D909EE42319255957BD615176E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (ii) of subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>$17,500</quote> and inserting <quote>$25,090</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1B8C05DF0BAA4F3E8E96001E7492ED8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C) by striking <quote>$48,600</quote> and inserting <quote>$69,678</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8F41805B89CB4C59B416126E084EC4C4"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (D) by striking <quote>$64,800</quote> and inserting <quote>$92,904</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE68A196C90CB44329C3BA2F76DBB7900"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (E) by striking <quote>$16,200</quote> and inserting <quote>$23,226</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA5C96E6614754D41814F2D568CD98C78"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by realigning subparagraphs (C), (D), and (E) 2 ems to the left so that the left margins of such subparagraphs are aligned with the margins of subparagraphs (A) and (B).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H87373C87695145F99873683807BFC831"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual Indexing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b) of section 2 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1703(b)), as amended by the preceding provisions of this title, is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block act-name="National Housing Act" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF9E3DA394D174EDB904D1032F9F01F76" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5B2E4682441B462288BCB006B679D1E8"><enum>(9)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual indexing of manufactured housing loans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall develop a method of indexing in order to annually adjust the loan limits established in subparagraphs (A)(ii), (C), (D), and (E) of this subsection. Such index shall be based on the manufactured housing price data collected by the United States Census Bureau. The Secretary shall establish such index no later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of the <short-title>FHA Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act of 2008</short-title>.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block></after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H206A1390F1224D70848CF3A1168B75E0"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical and Conforming Changes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1) of section 2(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1703(b)(1)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF0728BFB08A74152A5A3F5E2F573CB2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>No</quote> and inserting <quote>Except as provided in the last sentence of this paragraph, no</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5EDB681AE891462A91F2BA57F42B509B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding after and below subparagraph (G) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA8DC550670A84C9A8785FFAA3CCEB8AF" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H935B5893A8204D6BBAB7C44F08D1639F"><enum></enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall, by regulation, annually increase the dollar amount limitations in subparagraphs (A)(ii), (C), (D), and (E) (as such limitations may have been previously adjusted under this sentence) in accordance with the index established pursuant to paragraph (9).</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE7081DB81E62448589E1B605F1AAFEDE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>346.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Insurance premiums</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subsection (f) of section 2 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/12/1703">12 U.S.C. 1703(f)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H52DC4EA0D0F443FD8476820063B8661F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>(1) <header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Premium Charges</header-in-text>.—</quote> after <quote>(f)</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB788FB0CE2344E5BBD865D7DAA8475A"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H454CFD08AB464BC1B08B939208B6C46" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H25A530F841F6417F96CECBDA3715C669" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Manufactured Home Loans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding paragraph (1), in the case of a loan, advance of credit, or purchase in connection with a manufactured home or a lot on which to place such a home (or both), the premium charge for the insurance granted under this section shall be paid by the borrower under the loan or advance of credit, as follows:</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H70124C851C234DED8D7CCE468C86F262"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">At the time of the making of the loan, advance of credit, or purchase, a single premium payment in an amount not to exceed 2.25 percent of the amount of the original insured principal obligation.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1D1FBE8E9B37495FACC52789DEB35269"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to the premium under subparagraph (A), annual premium payments during the term of the loan, advance, or obligation purchased in an amount not exceeding 1.0 percent of the remaining insured principal balance (excluding the portion of the remaining balance attributable to the premium collected under subparagraph (A) and without taking into account delinquent payments or prepayments).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9E5F50D8F50E4F18BB10386938C9BCB0"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Premium charges under this paragraph shall be established in amounts that are sufficient, but do not exceed the minimum amounts necessary, to maintain a negative credit subsidy for the program under this section for insurance of loans, advances of credit, or purchases in connection with a manufactured home or a lot on which to place such a home (or both), as determined based upon risk to the Federal Government under existing underwriting requirements.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H51E8A0D806B04FF2BE3B206E1CC2B0DC"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may increase the limitations on premium payments to percentages above those set forth in subparagraphs (A) and (B), but only if necessary, and not in excess of the minimum increase necessary, to maintain a negative credit subsidy as described in subparagraph (C).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9766DD206C254EC686F1A22BDBF635FA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>347.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical corrections</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H653C572BF31847A6AD8B46B4587B600"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Dates</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) of section 2 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/12/1703">12 U.S.C. 1703(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H423095EAB911463C814BFDB235695963"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>on and after July 1, 1939,</quote> each place such term appears; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA33AFBB4BBEE4BBA8537BCB7A2C056D9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>made after the effective date of the Housing Act of 1954</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8771691ADA5345C8B676EB08B8B5D649"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authority of Secretary</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (c) of section 2 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1703(c)) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block act-name="National Housing Act" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF11DA993C6084C5CB8D34C02C2D68B60" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC771DF715C364D14BA6343C878247561"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Handling and Disposal of Property</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBB725E65A38549D2A71722C2A7EFD75D"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authority of secretary</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H144F3350ED1F4CCDBF2176B34330CBCD"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">deal with, complete, rent, renovate, modernize, insure, or assign or sell at public or private sale, or otherwise dispose of, for cash or credit in the Secretary’s discretion, and upon such terms and conditions and for such consideration as the Secretary shall determine to be reasonable, any real or personal property conveyed to or otherwise acquired by the Secretary, in connection with the payment of insurance heretofore or hereafter granted under this title, including any evidence of debt, contract, claim, personal property, or security assigned to or held by him in connection with the payment of insurance heretofore or hereafter granted under this section; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H21D0B98B4E354DD48632918B2C4ED8BA"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">pursue to final collection, by way of compromise or otherwise, all claims assigned to or held by the Secretary and all legal or equitable rights accruing to the Secretary in connection with the payment of such insurance, including unpaid insurance premiums owed in connection with insurance made available by this title.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD8A3F5B6115D4883BA6286F8E7553BDE"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advertisements for proposals</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not be construed to apply to any contract of hazard insurance or to any purchase or contract for services or supplies on account of such property if the amount thereof does not exceed $25,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC8EB8FA101BA404487B28DCA91858F"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Delegation of authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The power to convey and to execute in the name of the Secretary, deeds of conveyance, deeds of release, assignments and satisfactions of mortgages, and any other written instrument relating to real or personal property or any interest therein heretofore or hereafter acquired by the Secretary pursuant to the provisions of this title may be exercised by an officer appointed by the Secretary without the execution of any express delegation of power or power of attorney. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prevent the Secretary from delegating such power by order or by power of attorney, in the Secretary’s discretion, to any officer or agent the Secretary may appoint.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE56A0E45D5384E3EBE2943FF29985BFA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>348.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Revision of underwriting criteria</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1AD198BF4B854A66897C96C4EA974E2B"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b) of section 2 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1703(b)), as amended by the preceding provisions of this title, is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block act-name="National Housing Act" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAF670A72BC6C4E4688345281A36593A9" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE77E325CC1DD4DFBAFA9FAB05DEADCC7"><enum>(10)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Financial soundness of manufactured housing program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall establish such underwriting criteria for loans and advances of credit in connection with a manufactured home or a lot on which to place a manufactured home (or both), including such loans and advances represented by obligations purchased by financial institutions, as may be necessary to ensure that the program under this title for insurance for financial institutions against losses from such loans, advances of credit, and purchases is financially sound.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H29A7FB9CF9574029BA47D8F28DD3491"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Timing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than the expiration of the 6-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this title, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall revise the existing underwriting criteria for the program referred to in paragraph (10) of section 2(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (as added by subsection (a) of this section) in accordance with the requirements of such paragraph.</text> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA4592781955E4BEABECED2F2EF0FB277" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>349.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prohibition against kickbacks and unearned fees</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title I of the National Housing Act is amended by adding at the end of section 9 the following new section:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0F64577C58D24B049013A05D69E68828" style="OLC"> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id571E6E0960D341F99FE51877363E4FE3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>10.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prohibition against kickbacks and unearned fees</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id43D8DF72B0E24D9BA67CBB20531F68C8"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subsection (b), the provisions of sections 3, 8, 16, 17, 18, and 19 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 (12 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) shall apply to each sale of a manufactured home financed with an FHA-insured loan or extension of credit, as well as to services rendered in connection with such transactions.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8A9B0E88BCA44D42B519739BC8FD9C94"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authority of the Secretary</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary is authorized to determine the manner and extent to which the provisions of sections 3, 8, 16, 17, 18, and 19 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 (12 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) may reasonably be applied to the transactions described in subsection (a), and to grant such exemptions as may be necessary to achieve the purposes of this section.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD409FBA238BB48618C72F7BEE86C0581"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID57354a5daff3480e9644406318aa5bec"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>federally related mortgage loan</quote> as used in sections 3, 8, 16, 17, 18, and 19 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 (12 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) shall include an FHA-insured loan or extension of credit made to a borrower for the purpose of purchasing a manufactured home that the borrower intends to occupy as a personal residence; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID63db11b171e14071ac01095a03d3ace1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>real estate settlement service</quote> as used in sections 3, 8, 16, 17, 18, and 19 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 (12 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) shall include any service rendered in connection with a loan or extension of credit insured by the Federal Housing Administration for the purchase of a manufactured home.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA9AABC59AAE742189C6C68F496196B5C"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Unfair and deceptive practices</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In connection with the purchase of a manufactured home financed with a loan or extension of credit insured by the Federal Housing Administration under this title, the Secretary shall prohibit acts or practices in connection with loans or extensions of credit that the Secretary finds to be unfair, deceptive, or otherwise not in the interests of the borrower.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95BF78252C644AD6A80D522FA964816C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>350.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Leasehold requirements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subsection (b) of section 2 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NHA">National Housing Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1703(b)), as amended by the preceding provisions of this title, is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6691A0E60DF04D9EB8F1D394A1174A8B" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id429A5368ED2241719B066D3F37FABBE4"><enum>(11)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Leasehold requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No insurance shall be granted under this section to any such financial institution with respect to any obligation representing any such loan, advance of credit, or purchase by it, made for the purposes of financing a manufactured home which is intended to be situated in a manufactured home community pursuant to a lease, unless such lease—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAD22B79FFA3241A383058F6755E2A881"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">expires not less than 3 years after the origination date of the obligation;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC294BC3EC40B4B4FAAE0BDF71BD05EB8"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is renewable upon the expiration of the original 3 year term by successive 1 year terms; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4C90DCF72D9B48BDB4354A97515811EA"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">requires the lessor to provide the lessee written notice of termination of the lease not less than 180 days prior to the expiration of the current lease term in the event the lessee is required to move due to the closing of the manufactured home community, and further provides that failure to provide such notice to the mortgagor in a timely manner will cause the lease term, at its expiration, to automatically renew for an additional 1 year term.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section></subtitle>

March 10, 2008

Read the second time and placed on the calendar