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<bill bill-stage="Introduced-in-House" bill-type="olc" dms-id="H472F8C0F64184360AFD5BCAF3A28661A" public-private="public">
	<form>
		<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code>
		<congress>111th CONGRESS</congress>
		<session>2d Session</session>
		<legis-num>H. R. 4581</legis-num>
		<current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber>
		<action>
			<action-date date="20100203">February 3, 2010</action-date>
			<action-desc><sponsor name-id="B001232">Mrs. Biggert</sponsor> (for
			 herself, <cosponsor name-id="B000013">Mr. Bachus</cosponsor>,
			 <cosponsor name-id="C001047">Mrs. Capito</cosponsor>,
			 <cosponsor name-id="I000056">Mr. Issa</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="G000548">Mr. Garrett of New Jersey</cosponsor>,
			 <cosponsor name-id="P000583">Mr. Paul</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="N000182">Mr. Neugebauer</cosponsor>, and <cosponsor name-id="H001036">Mr. Hensarling</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill;
			 which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HBA00">Committee on
			 Financial Services</committee-name></action-desc>
		</action>
		<legis-type>A BILL</legis-type>
		<official-title>To require the Inspector General of the Federal Housing
		  Finance Agency to submit quarterly reports to the Congress during the
		  conservatorship of the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal
		  Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.</official-title>
	</form>
	<legis-body id="HCAFE693D7DA341FFB78E26F26C2CD3EE" style="OLC">
		<section id="HCAF9EB7EE050449787498ADB92129FF8" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the
			 <quote><short-title>Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
			 Accountability and Transparency for Taxpayers Act of
			 2010</short-title></quote>.</text>
		</section><section id="H247309A0DD084723B8CB2821EC8DB3D2"><enum>2.</enum><header>Quarterly reports
			 during conservatorship</header>
			<subsection id="H780098B5FB5F403AB931E379A89936E6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Reporting
			 requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For each
			 reporting period, the covered officer shall submit to the Congress a report for
			 each enterprise that summarizes the activities of the covered officer with
			 respect to such enterprise, and the activities and condition of such
			 enterprise, during such reporting period.</text>
			</subsection><subsection id="H954C5A0A56F14795985EEB279AD6CD6D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>Each
			 report required under this section for an enterprise for a reporting period
			 shall include the following information:</text>
				<paragraph id="H6439E73144EA4D6CBD719768AAF44DD8"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A description, including dollar amount, of
			 total liabilities of the enterprise as of the reporting date, with a detailed
			 breakdown of the potential level of risk to the Federal Government inherent in
			 the dollar amount of each separate type of liability and a quantification as to
			 how the risk to the Federal Government has changed from the previous reporting
			 period, distinguishing between changes attributable to volume and changes
			 attributable to changes in risk levels.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H33FC137281114299A53E2A882B1FD59D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>An explanation of,
			 including rationale for, all compensation and bonuses paid to any executive
			 officer (as such term is defined in section 1303 of the Housing and Community
			 Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4502)) of the enterprise, and any retention
			 decisions made, by the enterprise during such period regarding its executive
			 officers.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H1A3A366526314CB0BB708F1721AA07EE"><enum>(3)</enum><text>A
			 description of foreclosure mitigation activities of the enterprise during such
			 period, including any related data, a list of law firms and attorneys approved
			 or retained by the enterprise for handling foreclosure and bankruptcy matters
			 relating to mortgages held or securitized by the enterprise, and the
			 eligibility criteria used for such approval or retention and reasons for
			 limiting such list, and the number of mortgage loans held by the enterprise
			 that were refinanced in 2008 and 2009 through foreclosure mitigation activities
			 of the enterprise that have, during such period, entered into default.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H8BCDF12DFEDE4527B97538593767FEDF"><enum>(4)</enum><text>A
			 description of any mortgage fraud prevention activities undertaken by the
			 enterprise during such period and data describing the extent of mortgage fraud
			 during such period, including descriptions of the efforts of the enterprise to
			 prevent or detect mortgage fraud, of the pervasiveness of mortgage fraud, and
			 of the most prevalent types of mortgage fraud detected.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="HBB503DB11B104FF8BE94F67EC5FB8F45"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A listing with description of any formal or
			 informal communication between Governors and staff of the Board of Governors of
			 the Federal Reserve System and executives in the enterprise and any formal or
			 informal communication between officials and staff of the Department of the
			 Treasury and the Governors and staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal
			 Reserve System and executives in the enterprise regarding the purchase or sale
			 of any enterprise-related securities.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H24F50782E1834561832ACD7DCFC72957"><enum>(6)</enum><text>A
			 description of any investments, holdings, and activities of the enterprise
			 during such period that are not consistent with the mission of the enterprise
			 as provided under Federal law.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H767400272EC8424C81817B9ECEF900BC"><enum>(7)</enum><text>A
			 description of the reasons for any equity investments in the enterprise by the
			 Department of the Treasury during such period and any increase during such
			 period in the authorized amount of equity investments by such
			 Department.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H7C9E6EF7817F49BBBCEA30F3AF6734D0"><enum>(8)</enum><text>An analysis of the
			 capital levels and portfolio size of the enterprise during such period and
			 their impacts on the safety and soundness of the enterprise.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H8246FA80C14D4147B59924DA9BA6B3AC"><enum>(9)</enum><text>A
			 description and analysis of the underwriting standards of the enterprise
			 applicable during such period, including the criteria for safety and soundness
			 of mortgage loans for single-family, multi-family, and condominium residential
			 homes securitized by the enterprise and the ability of such criteria to ensure
			 such safety and soundness.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="HB5CD4294179043E79131DDC96B72678E"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An analysis of actions taken by the
			 enterprise that had a beneficial or harmful effect on holders of
			 enterprise-related securities, in particular, preferred stock issued prior to
			 September 6, 2008.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="HAC93E0E2E6E94B2E8589BC60409327D5"><enum>(11)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any other information that the covered
			 officer considers relevant or important with respect to the enterprise, and the
			 activities and condition of the enterprise.</text>
				</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1DCFC3B3EE9C4460A8A18553CD288F2C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Reporting
			 periods; timing of reports</header>
				<paragraph id="HD428C6229906413BB51611DD26E785B2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Initial
			 period</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The first reporting
			 period for each enterprise shall be the period that began upon the commencement
			 of the conservatorship period for the enterprise and that ends upon the date of
			 the enactment of this Act. The reports required under this section for such
			 period shall be submitted not later than the expiration of the 60-day period
			 beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HC841AD408D26466FB8F7C0A778FD582B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Quarterly
			 periods</header><text>After the first reporting period, the reporting periods
			 for each enterprise shall be each calendar quarter that concludes after the
			 date of the enactment of this Act. Each report for each such reporting period
			 shall be submitted not later than the expiration of the 60-day period beginning
			 upon the conclusion of such reporting period.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="HC5D77B2B4AB442998A4049E9928337D6"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Receivership</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding paragraph (2), if at any
			 time a receiver is appointed for an enterprise pursuant to section 1367 of the
			 Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4617), the reporting
			 periods for the enterprise during such receivership shall be each calendar
			 month (or such shorter period as the covered officer considers appropriate).
			 Each report for each such reporting period shall be submitted not later than
			 the expiration of the 30-day period beginning upon the conclusion of such
			 reporting period.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H834601978686463F9DC7E18BC2CA2B1C"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Nationalization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding paragraph (2), if at any
			 time the Federal Government or any agency or entity of the Federal Government
			 obtains control of an enterprise under law or through ownership of voting stock
			 of the enterprise, or the covered officer determines that the enterprise has
			 otherwise been nationalized, the reporting periods for the enterprise after
			 such nationalization occurs shall be the consecutive 6-month periods (the first
			 such period beginning upon such nationalization (or such shorter period as the
			 covered officer considers appropriate). Each report for each such reporting
			 period shall be submitted not later than the expiration of the 60-day period
			 beginning upon the conclusion of such reporting period.</text>
				</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HDEA1FFBFD7BC4FF78FA9370A5E3ADE9E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Public
			 availability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The covered
			 officer shall—</text>
				<paragraph id="HD3F276F413E844CBBFE513C2588A556E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>make information
			 regarding the activities of the covered officer, including each report
			 submitted to the Congress pursuant to this section, available to the public,
			 including through a World Wide Web site of the Federal Housing Finance Agency;
			 and</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="HE19E10A6864B4FDB8604A102951A1D1D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>establish an
			 electronic mail address and a toll-free telephone number, and shall publicize
			 the availability of such address and number, by which the public may report
			 waste, fraud, or abuse by an enterprise.</text>
				</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC29D9067280D444DAD8C72B71DCBFADA"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For
			 purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:</text>
				<paragraph id="H9B78C60A46D64BE884B0D40DCFF5A511"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Conservatorship
			 period</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
			 <quote>conservatorship period</quote> means, with respect to an enterprise, the
			 period that—</text>
					<subparagraph id="H56C70CC6FDB9411598AEBA43A06FBE0B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>began upon
			 appointment of the Federal Housing Finance agency as conservator for the
			 enterprise on September 6, 2008, pursuant to section 1367 of the Housing and
			 Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4617); and</text>
					</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7685F5D9AE1846EEBD4FFE231F0AECA3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ends upon the
			 termination of such conservatorship of the enterprise.</text>
					</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6FDBD1C468BE47D0BD366FBB75A72666"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Covered
			 officer</header><text>The term <quote>covered officer</quote> means—</text>
					<subparagraph id="HAD05CCBB63B2417F9D6590231141E965"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Inspector General of the Federal
			 Housing Finance Agency, if one has been appointed pursuant to section 1317(d)
			 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4517);</text>
					</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H659A4A162C4B4607835EEE35647F08E9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if the officer
			 referred to in subparagraph (A) has not been appointed, any interim inspector
			 general for the Federal Housing Finance Agency appointed pursuant to any
			 provision of law providing for such office; or</text>
					</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HACF11ECAA3FD453FB808CE8DB369FD48"><enum>(C)</enum><text>if the officer
			 referred to in subparagraph (A) has not been appointed and an officer referred
			 to in subparagraph (B) has not been appointed, the Associate Director for
			 Internal Audit of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.</text>
					</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HBFC021A6B6C84942A958959A4CBCA90E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Enterprise</header><text>The
			 term <quote>enterprise</quote> means the Federal National Mortgage Association
			 and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H340851A381184BFC9B2F513C81501B08"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Reporting
			 period</header><text>The term <quote>reporting period</quote> means a period
			 described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) of subsection (c).</text>
				</paragraph></subsection></section></legis-body>
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