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<meta><dc:title>116 S 1749 ENR: To clarify seasoning requirements for certain refinanced mortgage loans, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>S.</dc:type><docNumber>1749</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="116">One Hundred Sixteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="1">A T T  H  E F  I  R  S  T S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of January, two thousand and nineteen</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To clarify seasoning requirements for certain refinanced mortgage loans, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
<section id="d2074e62" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/1749/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Protecting Affordable Mortgages for Veterans Act of 2019</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d2074e72" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/1749/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>SEASONING REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN REFINANCED MORTGAGE LOANS.</heading><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d2074e76" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/1749/s2/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Ginnie Mae</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 306(g)(1) of the National Housing Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t12/s1721/g/1">12 U.S.C. 1721(g)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the second sentence.</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d2074e94" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/1749/s2/b" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Veterans Loans</inline>.—</heading><chapeau><ref href="/us/usc/t38/s3709/c">Section 3709(c) of title 38, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d2074e108" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/1749/s2/b/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>in the matter before paragraph (1), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>is refinanced</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>is a refinance</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d2074e119" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/1749/s2/b/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> paragraphs (1) and (2) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following new paragraphs:<quotedContent><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">“(1) </num><content>the date on which the borrower has made at least six consecutive monthly payments on the loan being refinanced; and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">“(2) </num><content>the date that is 210 days after the first payment due date of the loan being refinanced.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent>.</content></paragraph></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d2074e140" identifier="/us/bill/116/s/1749/s2/c" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Rule of Construction</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this Act may be construed to restrict or otherwise modify the authorities of the Government National Mortgage Association.</content></subsection></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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