To provide a safe harbor for mortgage servicers who engage in specified mortgage loan modifications, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 788.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 788, A bil to provide safe harbor for mortgate servicers who engage inspecified mortgage loan modifications, and for othe purposes” on February 9, 2009. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on February 4, 2009</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 9, 2009 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20473

  CBO publication date

  February 9, 2009

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 788, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/788

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  98c5579a310ae8ffe7392334cd13a40f7be6328114c1257da2b0f7e136da2a3c

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 788, A bil to provide safe harbor for mortgate servicers who engage inspecified mortgage loan modifications, and for othe purposes” on February 9, 2009. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on February 4, 2009”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 9, 2009 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20473

  CBO publication date

  February 9, 2009

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 788, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/788

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  98c5579a310ae8ffe7392334cd13a40f7be6328114c1257da2b0f7e136da2a3c

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 111-13 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on February 10, 2009.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported February 10, 2009 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/111/HRPT/13

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 788, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/788

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  98c5579a310ae8ffe7392334cd13a40f7be6328114c1257da2b0f7e136da2a3c

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 788, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 26, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.