[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1577 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1577

  To require additional entities to be subject to the requirements of 
section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the 
          Freedom of Information Act), and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 2015

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require additional entities to be subject to the requirements of 
section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the 
          Freedom of Information Act), and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 
Transparency Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. APPLICABILITY OF FOIA.

    Notwithstanding section 551 of title 5, United States Code, during 
any period that the Federal National Mortgage Association or the 
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation is under conservatorship or 
receivership pursuant to section 1367 of the Federal Housing 
Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 
4617), such enterprise shall be considered to be an agency for purposes 
of section 552 of such title.
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