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HUD/OH RIN: 2502-AI94 Publication ID: Fall 2013 
Title: Housing Counseling: New Certification Requirements  
Abstract: HUD's housing counseling program provides, through HUD-approved counseling agencies and State housing finance agencies, including their affiliates and branches, counseling to individuals seeking information about financing, maintaining, renting, or owning a home. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act amended the Housing Counseling statute to improve the effectiveness of the program by, among other things, requiring that the entities and individual counselors be certified by HUD as competent to provide such services, and prohibiting distribution of grant funds to agencies found in violation of Federal election laws or who have employees found in violation of Federal election laws, and requiring the reimbursement of grant funds for misuse of funds. This proposed rule would revise HUD's housing counseling program regulations to adopt the new requirements applicable to counseling agencies and individual counselors, and the use of grant funds. 
Agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD)  Priority: Other Significant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 24 CFR 214   
Legal Authority: 12 USC 1701x    42 USC 3535(d)   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  09/13/2013  78 FR 56625   
NPRM Comment Period End  11/12/2013 
Final Action  04/00/2014 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Small Entities Affected: No  Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Brian Siebenlist
Director, Office of Policy and Grants Administration
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Office of Housing
451 7th Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20410
Phone:202 708-0317