Foreclosure Relief and Extension for Servicemembers Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-2357
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2015-12-03
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership

Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Latest action: action_date: 2015-12-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-12-03
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Foreclosure Relief and Extension for Servicemembers Act of 2015</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 to extend through 2017 the one-year period after a service member's military service during which: (1) a court may stay proceedings to enforce an obligation on real or personal property owned by the service member before such military service; and (2) any sale, foreclosure, or seizure of such property shall be invalid without a court order or waiver agreement signed by the service member. (Currently, the extended one-year period is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2015, and return to a nine-month period under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.)</p> <p>Effective January 1, 2018 (currently, January 1, 2016), the old nine-month period in place of the one-year period granted by such Act shall be restored.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2357 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES December 3, 2015 Mr. Whitehouse (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To extend temporarily the extended period of protection for members of uniformed services relating to mortgages, mortgage foreclosure, and eviction, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Foreclosure Relief and Extension for Servicemembers Act of 2015 . 2. Temporary extension of extended period of protections for members of uniformed services relating to mortgages, mortgage foreclosure, and eviction Section 710(d) of the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 ( Public Law 112–154 ; 50 U.S.C. 3953 note) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking December 31, 2015 and inserting December 31, 2017 ; and (2) in paragraph (3), by striking January 1, 2016 and inserting January 1, 2018 .