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HR 976 Advanced toward a vote

Repeals the Equal Credit Opportunity Act provision requiring financial institutions to collect and report data on small business loans, and removes the matching section from the Dodd-Frank Act.

Official title: 1071 Repeal to Protect Small Business Lending Act

Next stop House floor: awaiting a vote
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced 04-FEB-2025
Referred 04-FEB-2025
Approved by committee 02-APR-2025
Reported 06-MAY-2025
On the calendar 06-MAY-2025
Key points
  • Repeals Section 704B of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which requires data collection and reporting on small business loans
  • Strikes Section 1071 from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and removes it from that Act's table of contents
  • Makes conforming changes to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act's table of contents and to section 701(b)
  • Sets the short title as the "1071 Repeal to Protect Small Business Lending Act"
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Official CRS summary

Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (04-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Reported in House, 06-MAY-2025).

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Committee referrals (1) Policy area

Finance and Financial Sector

Sponsor Roger Williams (R-TX) Cosponsors · 52
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