Expedited Guaranteed Lender Pilot Program Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill inserts a new section 333E into the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act. Within one year, USDA must run a pilot that establishes expedited qualification and approval for guaranteed bridge loans serviced by Preferred Certified Lenders and provided to creditworthy borrowers as those lenders determine. USDA may streamline determinations needed for existing certifications and assessments, but may not waive requirements other than application-processing timing. USDA must report within one year and annually thereafter, and the pilot terminates September 30, 2031. The bill also adjusts several section 346 timing provisions to add practicability language after April 1 or September 1 of a fiscal year.
Who Benefits and How
Creditworthy agricultural borrowers benefit from faster access to USDA-guaranteed bridge loans when they work with Preferred Certified Lenders. Preferred Certified Lenders benefit from a pilot that may reduce processing delays and give their credit judgments a central role. Farm operations and rural borrowers facing timing gaps benefit if USDA can accelerate bridge financing without changing underlying eligibility or safety-and-soundness requirements.
Who Bears the Burden and How
USDA farm loan administrators must design the pilot within one year, decide how to streamline timing determinations, preserve all non-timing requirements, report annually to House and Senate agriculture committees, and manage the September 30, 2031 termination. Preferred Certified Lenders must determine borrower creditworthiness and service the loans. Borrowers still must satisfy all substantive requirements because the bill does not waive eligibility, security, or other program rules.
Key Provisions
- Creates an expedited USDA guaranteed bridge-loan approval pilot within one year.
- Limits eligible loans to creditworthy borrowers served by Preferred Certified Lenders.
- Authorizes timing streamlining while preserving all non-timing statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Requires annual reports to House and Senate agriculture committees on pilot actions and results.
- Terminates the pilot authority on September 30, 2031.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Creates a USDA expedited guaranteed bridge-loan pilot for creditworthy borrowers served by Preferred Certified Lenders, limits the pilot to timing streamlining rather than substantive waivers, requires annual reports, and sunsets the authority on September 30, 2031.
Key Policy Areas
agriculture, credit, small_business
Primary Purpose
Creates a USDA expedited guaranteed bridge-loan pilot for creditworthy borrowers served by Preferred Certified Lenders, limits the pilot to timing streamlining rather than substantive waivers, requires annual reports, and sunsets the authority on September 30, 2031.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Agricultural borrowers
- Preferred Certified Lenders
- Farm operations
- Rural borrowers
Identified Costs
- USDA farm loan administrators
- Preferred Certified Lenders
- Agricultural borrowers
- Congressional agriculture committees
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, …
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia introduced the following bill; which …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Congressional agriculture committees, USDA farm loan administrators
USDA farm loan administrators faces effects in multiple directions
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "agencies"
- → ['USDA farm loan administrators']
- "beneficiaries"
- → ['Agricultural borrowers', 'Preferred Certified Lenders', 'Farm operations']
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
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