BUILD Act

Bill: 115-s-3731
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2018-12-06
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Latest action: action_date: 2018-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-12-06
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Building Up Independent Lives and Dreams Act or the BUILD Act </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to allow nonprofit organizations offering mortgage loans for charitable purposes to use certain alternative forms to satisfy disclosure requirements. </p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3731 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES December 6, 2018 Mrs. Fischer (for herself and Mr. Van Hollen ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs A BILL To provide regulatory relief to charitable organizations that provide housing assistance, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Building Up Independent Lives and Dreams Act or the BUILD Act . 2. Mortgage loan transaction disclosure requirements (a) TILA Amendment Section 105 of the Truth in Lending Act ( 15 U.S.C. 1604 ) is amended by inserting after subsection (d) the following: (e) Disclosure for charitable mortgage loan transactions With respect to a mortgage loan transaction involving a residential mortgage loan offered at 0 percent interest primarily for charitable purposes by an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code, forms HUD–1 and GFE (as defined under section 1024.2(b) of title 12, Code of Federal Regulations) together with a disclosure substantially in the form of the Loan Model Form H–2 (as depicted in Appendix H to part 1026 of title 12, Code of Federal Regulations) shall, collectively, be an appropriate model form for purposes of subsection (b) of this section. . (b) RESPA amendment Section 4 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 ( 12 U.S.C. 2603 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (d) Disclosure for charitable mortgage loan transactions With respect to a mortgage loan transaction involving a residential mortgage loan offered at 0 percent interest primarily for charitable purposes, an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code may use forms HUD–1 and GFE (as defined under section 1024.2(b) of title 12, Code of Federal Regulations) together with a disclosure substantially in the form of the Loan Model Form H–2 (as depicted in Appendix H to part 1026 of title 12, Code of Federal Regulations), collectively, in lieu of the disclosure published under subsection (a) of this section. . (c) Regulations Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection shall issue such regulations as may be necessary to implement the amendments made by subsections (a) and (b). (d) Effective date The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.