HR 2228 · 116th Congress · Agriculture and Food

To offer persistent poverty counties and political subdivisions of such counties the opportunity to have their rural development loans restructured.

Introduced 2019-04-10· Sponsored by Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
2
Committee
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House Vote
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Senate
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Enacted
Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.(2019-05-07)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] This bill allows persistent poverty counties and political subdivisions of the counties to restructure certain Department of Agriculture rural development loans so that the interest rate is 0% and the loan term is 40 years. A "persistent poverty county" is a county that has had at least 20% of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 1990, 2000, and 2010 decennial censuses.…

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