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HR 3164 112th Congress House Housing and Community Development Government information and archives Housing finance and home ownership

Short Sale Transparency Act of 2011

Introduced: October 25, 2011 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Became law
Oct 21, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
Oct 12, 2011
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Oct 12, 2011
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Short Sale Transparency Act of 2011 - Directs the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to require the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), in any case in which one or the other denies the purchase of a residential mortgage loan made to finance the purchase, under a short sale, of a covered dwelling on the basis that the purchase price involved is insufficient, to disclose promptly to the prospective seller the amount by which the purchase price was less than the minimum purchase price sufficient for approval of the purchase of such mortgage.

What's happening now October 21, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 7
All 7 Democratic 5
D
Johnson, Henry C. "Hank"
Georgia · Mar 20, 2012
 D
Sánchez, Linda T.
California · Mar 6, 2012
 D
Schiff, Adam B.
California · Mar 6, 2012
 D
Sherman, Brad
California · Feb 29, 2012
Rooney, Thomas
· Nov 14, 2011
 D
Chu, Judy
California · Oct 25, 2011
FILNER, BOB
· Oct 25, 2011
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3164: Short Sale Transparency Act of 2011. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-3164/
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"H.R. 3164: Short Sale Transparency Act of 2011." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-3164/.
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H.R. 3164, 112th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-3164/.
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