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        <dc:title>Protecting Affordable Mortgages for Veterans Act of 2019</dc:title>
        <citableAs>Public Law 116–33</citableAs>
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        <property style="-uslm-dtd:comp-short-title" role="compShortTitle">Protecting Affordable Mortgages for Veterans Act of 2019</property>
        <citationNote style="-uslm-dtd:public-law">[(<citableAs>Public Law 116–33</citableAs>)]</citationNote>
        <editionNote style="-uslm-dtd:updated-through-note">[This law has not been amended]</editionNote>
        <explanationNote style="-uslm-dtd:explanatory-note"><b>[</b>Currency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 116–33. It was last amended by the public law listed in the As Amended Through note above and below at the bottom of each page of the pdf version and reflects current law through the date of the enactment of the public law listed at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/<b>]</b></explanationNote>
        <explanationNote style="-uslm-dtd:explanatory-note"><b>[</b>Note: While this publication does  not represent an official version of any Federal statute, substantial efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of its contents. The official version of Federal law is found in the United States Statutes at Large and in the United States Code. The legal effect to be given to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).<b>]</b></explanationNote>
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    <main style="-uslm-dtd:legis-body"><longTitle><docTitle style="-uslm-dtd:legis-type">AN ACT</docTitle><officialTitle style="-uslm-dtd:official-title">To clarify seasoning requirements for certain refinanced mortgage loans, and for other purposes.</officialTitle></longTitle><enactingFormula style="-uslm-dtd:enacting-clause">Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
        <section style="-uslm-dtd:section" identifier="/us/sComp/116/33/s1" styleType="OLC">
            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t12/s1701">12 U.S.C. 1701 note</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SHORT TITLE. </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Protecting Affordable Mortgages for Veterans Act of 2019</shortTitle>”.</content>
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            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SEASONING REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN REFINANCED MORTGAGE LOANS. </heading>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="a">(a) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Ginnie Mae.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Section 306(g)(1) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1721(g)(1)) is amended by striking the second sentence.</content>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="b">(b) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Veterans Loans.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Section 3709(c) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—</chapeau>
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                    <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in the matter before paragraph (1), by striking “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">is refinanced</quotedText>” and inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">is a refinance</quotedText>”; and</content>
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                    <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting the following new paragraphs:<quotedContent style="-uslm-dtd:quoted-block">
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                        <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the date on which the borrower has made at least six consecutive monthly payments on the loan being refinanced; and</content>
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                        <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the date that is 210 days after the first payment due date of the loan being refinanced.”</content>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="c">(c) </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t12/s1721">12 U.S.C. 1721 note</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Rule of Construction.—</heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Nothing in this Act may be construed to restrict or otherwise modify the authorities of the Government National Mortgage Association.</content>
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