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The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) announced in December 2017, that it intends to open a rulemaking to reconsider various aspects of a 2015 final rule that amended regulations implementing the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. The reconsideration could involve such issues as the institutional and transactional coverage tests and the rule’s discretionary data points. The Bureau also specifically expects to follow up on its action in August 2017, to amend Regulation C to increase the threshold for collecting and reporting data with respect to open-end lines of credit for a period of 2 years so that financial institutions originating fewer than 500 open-end lines of credit in either of the preceding 2 years would not be required to begin collecting such data until January 1, 2020. The Bureau indicated at the time of that initial rulemaking that it intended to conduct follow-up rulemaking in that interim period to consider whether to make permanent adjustments to the open-end threshold.