H.R. 6694: To amend the definition of mortgage originator under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to include certain employees of a retailer of manufactured homes.
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H.R. 6694: To amend the definition of mortgage originator under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to include certain employees of a retailer of manufactured homes.
112th Congress · introduced 2012-12-20 · Housing and Community Development · Latest: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1987-1988)
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- Who proposed it: Rep. Fincher, Stephen Lee [R-TN-8] · what a sponsor is
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Official title
To amend the definition of mortgage originator under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to include certain employees of a retailer of manufactured homes.
Plain summary
Amends the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act, title XIV of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, to reverse the exclusion from treatment as a mortgage originator, and recognize as a mortgage originator, an employee of a retailer of manufactured homes who receives compensation or gain for taking a residential mortgage loan application, assisting a consumer in obtaining or applying to obtain a residential mortgage loan, or offering or negotiating the terms of such a loan, if the compensation or gain exceeds that received in a comparable cash transaction.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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To amend the definition of mortgage originator under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to include certain employees of a retailer of manufactured homes.
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Sponsor: Rep. Fincher, Stephen Lee [R-TN-8] · 0 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112hr6694.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/hr>
Record fed-us-cong112-hr6694 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112