New Freedoms for Smaller Financial Institutions: Mortgages, Escrow, and the Small Creditor Exemption (H.R. 4521)
Do you support or oppose this bill?
What is H.R. 4521?
(Updated January 31, 2017)
This bill would exempt credit unions and banks with under $10 billion in assets from a Dodd-Frank Act requirement that mortgage lenders must hold an escrow account for five years for higher-priced, first-lien mortgages secured by the borrower's principal dwelling. The bill would also raise the small servicer exemption threshold from 5,000 loans to 20,000 loans, and in turn allow more institutions to fall under the title of "small servicer."
Argument in favor
Would aid small creditors in providing escrow services in a cost-efficient manner, affording them traction in the mortgage market.
Argument opposed
Smaller servicers do not need further incentives to service mortgage loans. When it gets too easy to get a mortgage (subprime), bad things can follow.
Impact
The bill primarily affects smaller, community-oriented credit unions and banks.
Cost of H.R. 4521
A CBO cost is currently unavailable.
Additional Info
Of Note:
- H.R. 4200, the "SBIC Advisers Relief Act of 2014"
- H.R. 4554, the "Restricted Securities Relief Act of 2014"
- H.R. 4568, the "Small Business Freedom to Grow Act of 2014"
- H.R. 4571, to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise its rules so as to increase the threshold amount for requiring issuers to provide certain disclosures relating to compensatory benefit plans
- H.R. 4569, the "Disclosure Modernization and Simplification Act of 2014"
- H.R. 4570, the "Private Placement Improvement Act of 2014"
- H.R. 4565, the "Startup Capital Modernization Act of 2014"
- H.R. 4564, the "Equity Crowdfunding Improvement Act of 2014"
- H.R. 2629, the "Fostering Innovation Act of 2013"
- H.R. 1779, the "Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act of 2013"
- H.R. 2673, the "Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act"
- H.R. 3211, the "Mortgage Choice Act of 2013"
- H.R. 4466, the "Financial Regulatory Clarity Act of 2014"
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