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Modernization of Home Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Data Collection and Disclosure. (a) The CFPB will consider, as suitable and consistent with appropriate law, proposing changes to Regulation C to raise the asset threshold for exemption from HMDA information collection and reporting requirements for smaller banks, to exclude queries from the scope of HMDA, and to ensure that disclosures safeguard personal privacy and minimize problems, consisting of insufficiently tailored, pricey, and complex software application and training needed for reporting monetary institutions.

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4. Capital and Liquidity Positioning. (a) The Vice Chairman for Guidance of the Federal Reserve, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Company (FHFA) will consider, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law: (i) revising capital regulations, constant with suitable risk-management requirements, to tailor risk weights for all banks, including community banks and other smaller banks, for portfolio home loans, servicing rights, and warehouse lines of credit to the product credit risk of the exposure; (ii) improving security evaluation and transfer systems in between the Federal Reserve and Federal Mortgage Banks (FHLBs); (iii) expanding access to longerdated FHLB advances tied to residential home mortgage assets; (iv) producing targeted FHLB liquidity programs for entrylevel housing, owneroccupied purchase loans, and small residential contractors; (v) accelerating security boarding and appraisal processes through standardized data and digital paperwork; and (vi) refocusing the FHLBs' Budget-friendly Housing Program on faster-cycle execution and higher financial take advantage of for small and owner-occupied real estate jobs.

(c) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Director of the FHFA, in consultation with the heads of other pertinent executive departments and firms, shall submit a report to the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and the Director of the Workplace of Management and Budget plan on the performance of national housing finance markets.

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Sec. 5. Construction and Housing Supply. (a) The Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency, shall consider, as proper and constant with applicable law, modifying supervisory guidance both to leave out one-to four-family property development and building financing from industrial property concentration guidance and to make sure supervisory expectations support accountable building loaning by neighborhood banks.

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6. Appraisal Modernization. (a) The Vice Chairman for Guidance of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of Board of Directors of the FDIC, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Director of the FHFA shall think about, as appropriate and constant with relevant law and their statutory authorities: (i) modernizing appraisal guidelines and guidance to expand making use of alternative evaluation designs, desktop and hybrid appraisals, and expert system valuation tools; (ii) streamlining appraiser certification requirements; and (iii) lowering appraisal requirements for low-risk transactions, including low loan-to-value refinancing and smallbalance loans; and setting clear appraisal timelines.

Sec. 7. Digital Mortgage Modernization. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of HUD, the Secretary of VA, and the Director of the FHFA will think about, as proper and consistent with appropriate law: (i) eliminating unneeded wetsignature requirements for disclosures, applications, closing documents, and comparable documents; (ii) standardizing approval of electronic signatures, e-notes, and remote online notarization; and (iii) promoting digital home mortgage requirements.

8. Servicing and Supervisory Certainty. (a) The Secretary of HUD, the Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency will consider, as suitable and constant with appropriate law: (i) aligning supervisory expectations to support portfolio home mortgage maintenance as a core community banking function; extending curefirst standards to goodfaith servicing errors; streamlining loss mitigation requirements; and issuing a proposed guideline supplying exemptions from intricate home mortgage services for smaller sized banks; and (ii) ensuring that supervisory evaluations of performing, prudently underwritten portfolio loans do not focus on technical flaws or rely on developing supervisory analyses.

9. Enforcement. (a) The Vice Chairman for Guidance of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency shall consider, as suitable and constant with suitable law, promoting a policy versus enforcement actions for offenses of consumer financial laws that: (i) dissuades imposing civil monetary charges, except where the underlying violations are willful, knowing, or careless; (ii) considers excellent business conduct, including a bank's correction of good-faith, technical compliance mistakes; and (iii) permits institutions a sensible opportunity for self-identification and removal of appropriate compliance matters.