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The Bureau announced in 2018 that it intended to open a rulemaking to reconsider its 2017 rule titled Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans. The Bureau issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in February 2019 that proposed to rescind provisions of the rule concerning the mandatory underwriting of covered short-term and longer-term balloon payment loans, including payday and vehicle title loans, and related reporting and recordkeeping requirements. In the NPRM, the Bureau initially determined that the evidence underlying the identification of the unfair and abusive practice in the mandatory underwriting provisions of the 2017 rule was not sufficiently robust and reliable to support that determination, in light of the impact those provisions will have on the market for covered short-term and longer-term balloon-payment loans, and the ability of consumers to obtain such loans, among other things. The Bureau also initially determined that its approach for unfairness and abusiveness determinations was sufficiently problematic to necessitate reconsideration. Based on its reconsideration of those issues, the Bureau proposed to rescind the mandatory underwriting provisions in their entirety. Further information on the procedural history of this rule is available under related RIN 3170-AA40, which pertains to the final rule the Bureau issued in November 2017.