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Housing and Community Development – Down Payment and Settlement Expense Loan Program – Homebuyer Education Requirements

Sponsor: Cory V. McCray (District 45)Committee: Education, Health, and Environmental AffairsSubject: Economic and Community DevelopmentStatus: Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m. (as of Nov 6, 2020)

What this bill does

Official synopsis

Altering homebuyer education requirements for a loan recipient in the Down Payment and Settlement Expense Loan Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development to require the loan recipient to take a homebuyer education course or complete online homebuyer education with a HUD-approved product and require the recipient to receive one-on-one counseling for at least 1 hour, in person or by phone; and requiring the Secretary of Housing and Community Development to make a certain annual report by December 31.

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Testimony (11)

MGA witness list
FAV 5FavorableUNF 6Unfavorable
PositionWitnessOrganizationTestimony
FAVSenator McCray, Senator McCraylegislatorIndividualOral + Written (PDF)
FAVellis, danIndividualOral + Written (PDF)
FAVgordon, brendaIndividualPosition only
FAVhurley, donnaIndividualOral + Written (PDF)
FAVwilson randall, claudiaIndividualOral + Written (PDF)
UNFHeckles, MatthewMaryland DHCDPosition only
UNFPickels, HunterMaryland DHCDOral + Written (PDF)
UNFGreen, RichardMaryland Mortgage Bankers and Brokers AssociationWritten (PDF)
UNFCastelli, BillMdRealtorsWritten (PDF)
UNFgough, timmmbbaOral
UNFgreen, richardmmbbaWritten (PDF)

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