To enhance the availability of capital, credit, and other banking and financial services for all citizens and communities, to ensure that community reinvestment requirements are updated to account for changes in the financial industry and that reinvestment requirements keep pace as banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers become affiliates as a result of the enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and for other purposes.

Overview Sponsor: Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX30]show cosponsors (60) Cosponsors: Donna Christensen [D-VI] Eleanor Norton [D-DC] Sanford Bishop [D-GA2] Earl Blumenauer [D-OR3] Robert Brady [D-PA1] Bruce Braley [D-IA1] Corrine Brown [D-FL3] George Butterfield [D-NC1] Lois Capps [D-CA23] Michael Capuano [D-MA8] Russ Carnahan [D-MO3] Judy Chu [D-CA32] Yvette Clarke [D-NY11] Steve Cohen [D-TN9] John Conyers [D-MI14] Elijah Cummings [D-MD7] Artur Davis [D-AL7] Danny Davis [D-IL7] William Delahunt [D-MA10] Lloyd Doggett [D-TX25] Steve Driehaus [D-OH1] Donna Edwards [D-MD4] Keith Ellison [D-MN5] Chaka Fattah [D-PA2] Bob Filner [D-CA51] Marcia Fudge [D-OH11] Al Green [D-TX9] Raul Grijalva [D-AZ7] Luis Gutiérrez [D-IL4] Alcee Hastings [D-FL23] Maurice Hinchey [D-NY22] Michael Honda [D-CA15] Jesse Jackson [D-IL2] Henry Johnson [D-GA4] Carolyn Kilpatrick [D-MI13] Dennis Kucinich [D-OH10] Barbara Lee [D-CA9] Zoe Lofgren [D-CA16] Stephen Lynch [D-MA9] Eric Massa [D-NY29] Doris Matsui [D-CA5] James McGovern [D-MA3] Kendrick Meek [D-FL17] Gregory Meeks [D-NY6] Gwen Moore [D-WI4] James Moran [D-VA8] Grace Napolitano [D-CA38] Edward Pastor [D-AZ4] Donald Payne [D-NJ10] Chellie Pingree [D-ME1] Mike Quigley [D-IL5] Laura Richardson [D-CA37] Bobby Rush [D-IL1] Janice Schakowsky [D-IL9] José Serrano [D-NY16] Louise Slaughter [D-NY28] Fortney Stark [D-CA13] Bennie Thompson [D-MS2] Niki Tsongas [D-MA5] Diane Watson [D-CA33] Text: Summary | Full Text Status: Introduced Mar 12, 2009 Referred to Committee View Committee Assignments Reported by Committee ... House Vote ... Senate Vote ... Signed by President ... This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee. [Last Updated: Jun 27, 2010 5:29AM] Last Action: Mar 12, 2009: Referred to House Rules Other Titles: -- Insurance Disclosure Act Related: See the Related Legislation page for other bills related to this one and a list of subject terms that have been applied to this bill. Sometimes the text of one bill or resolution is incorporated into another, and in those cases the original bill or resolution, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned.

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