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Agricultural Mortgage Marketing Act of 1987

Introduced: March 26, 1987 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 16, 1987
Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit.
Mar 26, 1987
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Mar 26, 1987
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Agricultural Mortgage Marketing Act of 1987 - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to establish as a federally-chartered institution of the Farm Credit System (System) the Agricultural Mortgage Enhancement Corporation (Corporation). States that the Corporation shall not be liable for the debts of any other System institutions.

Directs the Corporation to provide a secondary agricultural mortgage market by: (1) developing uniform underwriting, security appraisal, and repayment standards; (2) determining the eligibility of agricultural mortgage marketing facilities to contract with the Corporation for credit enhancement of specific mortgage pools; and (3) providing credit enhancement to assure the repayment of principal and interest on pools of qualified agricultural mortgage loans.

Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) the Board of Directors; (2) operating powers; (3) agricultural mortgage marketing facility certification (including revocation); (4) credit enhancement of qualified agricultural mortgage loans; (5) the required ten-percent contribution reserve (including distributions of any earnings on such reserve and loss allocation); (6) standards for qualified agricultural mortgage loans; (7) credit enhancement; (8) exemption from Federal and State securities laws under specified conditions (including authorized investments); and (9) termination of credit enhancement authority five years after enactment of this Act.

What's happening now April 16, 1987

Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit.

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