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Modernization of Home Home Loan Disclosure Act (HMDA) Data Collection and Disclosure. (a) The CFPB shall consider, as proper and constant with relevant law, proposing changes to Policy C to raise the possession limit for exemption from HMDA data collection and reporting requirements for smaller banks, to leave out queries from the scope of HMDA, and to guarantee that disclosures secure privacy and decrease concerns, including insufficiently tailored, costly, and complex software application and training needed for reporting financial organizations.

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4. Capital and Liquidity Positioning. (a) The Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Director of the Federal Real Estate Finance Agency (FHFA) shall think about, as appropriate and constant with suitable law: (i) modifying capital regulations, consistent with proper risk-management requirements, to customize danger weights for all banks, consisting of community banks and other smaller banks, for portfolio mortgages, maintenance rights, and storage facility credit lines to the product credit risk of the exposure; (ii) updating collateral appraisal and transfer systems between the Federal Reserve and Federal Mortgage Banks (FHLBs); (iii) broadening access to longerdated FHLB advances tied to residential mortgage properties; (iv) developing targeted FHLB liquidity programs for entrylevel real estate, owneroccupied purchase loans, and small domestic contractors; (v) speeding up collateral boarding and valuation processes through standardized data and digital documentation; and (vi) refocusing the FHLBs' Affordable Housing Program on faster-cycle execution and higher monetary take advantage of for small-scale and owner-occupied real estate jobs.

(c) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Director of the FHFA, in consultation with the heads of other appropriate executive departments and firms, shall send a report to the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and the Director of the Workplace of Management and Spending plan on the effectiveness of national real estate financing markets.

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Sec. 5. Building and Housing Supply. (a) The Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency, will consider, as proper and constant with appropriate law, modifying supervisory assistance both to leave out one-to four-family residential development and construction financing from industrial realty concentration assistance and to ensure supervisory expectations support responsible building and construction loaning by community banks.

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6. Appraisal Modernization. (a) The Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of Board of Directors of the FDIC, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Director of the FHFA shall consider, as appropriate and constant with suitable law and their statutory authorities: (i) modernizing appraisal guidelines and assistance to expand making use of alternative evaluation models, desktop and hybrid appraisals, and synthetic intelligence assessment tools; (ii) streamlining appraiser qualification requirements; and (iii) lowering appraisal requirements for low-risk deals, consisting of low loan-to-value refinancing and smallbalance loans; and setting clear appraisal timelines.

Sec. 7. Digital Mortgage Modernization. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of HUD, the Secretary of VA, and the Director of the FHFA will consider, as appropriate and constant with appropriate law: (i) getting rid of unneeded wetsignature requirements for disclosures, applications, closing documents, and comparable files; (ii) standardizing acceptance of electronic signatures, e-notes, and remote online notarization; and (iii) promoting digital home mortgage requirements.

8. Servicing and Supervisory Certainty. (a) The Secretary of HUD, the Vice Chairman for Guidance of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency will think about, as suitable and constant with relevant law: (i) lining up supervisory expectations to support portfolio home mortgage maintenance as a core community banking function; extending curefirst standards to goodfaith servicing errors; streamlining loss mitigation requirements; and providing a proposed rule offering exemptions from intricate home mortgage services for smaller banks; and (ii) ensuring that supervisory examinations of carrying out, wisely underwritten portfolio loans do not focus on technical defects or depend on progressing supervisory analyses.

9. Enforcement. (a) The Vice Chairman for Guidance of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency will think about, as suitable and constant with relevant law, promoting a policy against enforcement actions for offenses of consumer monetary laws that: (i) prevents enforcing civil financial charges, except where the underlying infractions are willful, knowing, or reckless; (ii) considers good business conduct, including a bank's correction of good-faith, technical compliance errors; and (iii) allows organizations a reasonable chance for self-identification and removal of proper compliance matters.