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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Mar 25, 2020
Small Business-Community Banker COVID-19 Relief Act of 2020
This bill allows a depository institution to delay compliance with specified accounting standards when modifying a loan for a small business affected by COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) in a troubled debt restructuring. A depository institution is not required to comply with certain accounting standards applicable to credit losses (i.e., current expected credit losses standards, also known as CECL standards) if it has been substantially affected by COVID-19.
People & committees
Rep. Curtis, John R. [R-UT-3] · R–UT
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Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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