Our bipartisan First-Time Homebuyer Affordability Act would remove Mortgage Revenue Bonds from the Private Activity Bond cap, allowing California to offer qualified homebuyers lower-interest mortgages while preserving resources for affordable rental housing.
Support legislation to exempt qualified mortgage revenue bonds from the Private Activity Bond cap in order to expand access to lower-interest mortgages for first-time, low- to moderate-income homebuyers.
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Evidence
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GovInfo lists H.R. 10075 as introduced August 10, 2026 by LaHood, with Jimmy Panetta as a cosponsor, and referred to House Ways and Means. The bill title says it would amend the Internal Revenue Code to exempt qualified mortgage bonds from the volume cap.
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Panetta's office announced that he joined introduction of the First-Time Homebuyer Affordability Act and said the bill would remove Mortgage Revenue Bonds from the Private Activity Bond cap for lower-interest mortgages.
Assessments
The promise was to support legislation, not necessarily to secure enactment. In the 119th Congress, Panetta cosponsored and publicly joined introduction of the First-Time Homebuyer Affordability Act, which matches the promised policy by exempting qualified mortgage revenue bonds from the Private Activity Bond cap to expand lower-interest mortgage access for first-time low- to moderate-income homebuyers. Because this legislative support occurred while he remained in federal office, the promise is delivered in the same term even though the bill had only been introduced and referred, not enacted.