An Act to amend the National Housing Act to prevent the funding of unnecessary or excessive costs for obtaining a home equity conversion mortgage, to require automatic cancellation and notice of cancellation rights with respect to private mortgage insurance required as a condition for entering into a residential mortagage transaction, to abolish the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 607.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-55 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on April 16, 1997.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 16, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/55

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 607, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/607

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e0bdf5da20465108b7e6845d65e5c13be96f9a4289efc5e9daaf382a6e6c1ed5

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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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