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S. 1685 115th Congress Senate

Credit Score Competition Act of 2017

Official title: A bill to require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to establish procedures for considering certain credit scores in making a determination whether to purchase a residential mortgage, and for other purposes.

Introduced: August 1, 2017 Introduced by: Tim Scott Republican · South Carolina See on congress.gov
Housing and Community Development
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Aug 1, 2017
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 Latest action August 1, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Credit Score Competition Act of 2017

This bill amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to allow the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), when determining whether to purchase a residential mortgage, to consider a borrower's credit score only if certain procedural requirements are met with respect to the validation and approval of credit-scoring models.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency may, by regulation, establish standards and criteria for processes used by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to validate and approve credit-scoring models in accordance with the bill.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 898 Credit Score Competition Act of 2017
  • S 2155 Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3
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Duckworth, Tammy
Illinois · Feb 26, 2018
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Kaine, Tim
Virginia · Aug 2, 2017
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Warner, Mark R.
Virginia · Aug 1, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1685: Credit Score Competition Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1685/
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"S. 1685: Credit Score Competition Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1685/.
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S. 1685, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1685/.
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