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The bill expands and modernizes mortgage tax-preferred financing and MCC programs to increase homeownership access and administrative efficiency, but it does so while shortening public notice, imposing new reporting burdens, raising privacy and fiscal concerns, and limiting some issuer flexibility.
Low- and moderate-income homebuyers and current homeowners will have greater access to mortgage tax credits because mortgage credit certificate (MCC) rules are expanded (longer claim periods, flexible credit rates, and more timely reallocation of unused MCC capacity).
Homeowners can refinance and finance larger home improvements with tax-preferred mortgage revenue bonds (refinancing without disqualifying bond status; use of current market value for refinance eligibility; higher qualified home improvement loan limits indexed for inflation).
State and local issuing authorities and the IRS get clearer, standardized, and often electronic reporting (volume cap use, carryforwards, issuer-level reporting), which can speed processing, improve planning for bond issuance, and provide better Congressional oversight.
Residents and stakeholders will have less time to review and comment on local and state proposals because public-notice windows are shortened from 90 to 30 days, reducing public oversight and input.
State and local issuing authorities (and sometimes the IRS) will face added reporting, electronic-filing, verification, and IT compliance costs—requiring system updates, staff time, and possible new resources to implement changes.
Expanding refinancing eligibility, longer MCC claim periods, and higher tax-preferred loan limits will reduce federal revenues and could modestly increase deficits or crowd out other spending absent offsets.
Based on analysis of 20 sections of legislative text.
Modifies tax rules for mortgage credit certificates and mortgage revenue bonds, increases home‑improvement loan limits, tightens reporting/electronic filing for state bond caps, and adjusts carryforward and recapture rules.
Introduced February 9, 2026 by Rudy Yakym · Last progress February 9, 2026
Makes targeted changes to federal rules for mortgage credit certificates (MCCs), mortgage revenue bonds, and private activity bond volume caps. It shortens public-notice timing in one provision, tightens IRS reporting and electronic-filing rules for state bond ceilings, revises carryforward and transfer rules for private activity bond authority (with housing exceptions), raises the dollar limit for qualified home improvement loans, adjusts MCC credit-rate limits and timing, creates a limited refinancing exception for mortgage revenue bond rules, and shortens certain recapture holding periods.