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Sec. 3. Modernization of Home Home Loan Disclosure Act (HMDA) Data Collection and Disclosure. (a) The CFPB will think about, as suitable and consistent with relevant law, proposing changes to Policy C to raise the possession threshold for exemption from HMDA information collection and reporting requirements for smaller sized banks, to omit queries from the scope of HMDA, and to guarantee that disclosures protect personal privacy and lower concerns, consisting of insufficiently tailored, costly, and complex software application and training required for reporting monetary organizations.

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4. Capital and Liquidity Positioning. (a) The Vice Chairman for Guidance 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 Financing Firm (FHFA) will think about, as appropriate and constant with appropriate law: (i) revising capital regulations, consistent with appropriate risk-management requirements, to customize risk weights for all banks, including neighborhood banks and other smaller sized banks, for portfolio home loans, maintenance rights, and storage facility lines of credit to the material credit danger of the exposure; (ii) improving collateral appraisal and transfer systems between the Federal Reserve and Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBs); (iii) broadening access to longerdated FHLB advances connected to domestic home mortgage assets; (iv) creating targeted FHLB liquidity programs for entrylevel real estate, owneroccupied purchase loans, and small domestic home builders; (v) speeding up collateral boarding and evaluation processes through standardized data and digital documents; and (vi) refocusing the FHLBs' Budget Friendly Housing Program on faster-cycle execution and greater financial take advantage of for small-scale and owner-occupied real estate projects.

(c) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Director of the FHFA, in assessment with the heads of other appropriate executive departments and agencies, will send a report to the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget on the performance of nationwide housing finance 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 guidance both to omit one-to four-family domestic development and building and construction lending from commercial real estate concentration assistance and to make sure supervisory expectations support accountable building 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 will think about, as suitable and consistent with appropriate law and their statutory authorities: (i) modernizing appraisal policies and guidance to broaden the use of alternative appraisal models, desktop and hybrid appraisals, and expert system assessment tools; (ii) simplifying appraiser certification requirements; and (iii) decreasing appraisal requirements for low-risk deals, including low loan-to-value refinancing and smallbalance loans; and setting clear appraisal timelines.

Digital Mortgage Modernization. (a) The Secretary of Farming, the Secretary of HUD, the Secretary of VA, and the Director of the FHFA will think about, as proper and constant with relevant law: (i) removing unneeded wetsignature requirements for disclosures, applications, closing documents, and comparable documents; (ii) standardizing acceptance of electronic signatures, e-notes, and remote online notarization; and (iii) promoting digital mortgage requirements.

8. Servicing and Supervisory Certainty. (a) The Secretary of HUD, 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 shall think about, as proper and consistent with appropriate law: (i) aligning supervisory expectations to support portfolio home loan maintenance as a core community banking function; extending curefirst standards to goodfaith maintenance mistakes; streamlining loss mitigation requirements; and releasing a proposed guideline supplying exemptions from complex home mortgage services for smaller banks; and (ii) guaranteeing that supervisory examinations of performing, prudently underwritten portfolio loans do not concentrate on technical defects or rely on progressing supervisory interpretations.

9. Enforcement. (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 appropriate and constant with relevant law, promoting a policy versus enforcement actions for offenses of customer monetary laws that: (i) prevents imposing civil monetary charges, except where the underlying infractions are willful, knowing, or negligent; (ii) considers great business conduct, consisting of a bank's correction of good-faith, technical compliance errors; and (iii) permits organizations a reasonable opportunity for self-identification and remediation of proper compliance matters.