United States Code

42 U.S.C. § 1484

Insurance of loans for housing and related facilities for domestic farm labor

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Bills that would change it 46

  • HR 6644 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Amends its part · enacted · 119th Congress
  • HR 9540 Community Housing Act of 2026 Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 4773 DASH Act Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • HR 6337 ROAD to Housing Act of 2025 Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • HRES 1299 Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 6644, with amendment. Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • HR 7609 Rural Development Modernization Act Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 2296 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • HR 5057 Expanding Service Coordinators Act of 2025 Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • HR 4957 Rural Housing Service Reform Act of 2025 Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 2651 ROAD to Housing Act of 2025 Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • HR 3227 Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2025 Amends · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 1260 Rural Housing Service Reform Act of 2025 Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • S 885 Strategy and Investment in Rural Housing Preservation Act of 2025 Amends its part · introduced · 119th Congress
  • HR 4319 Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2023 Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 7325 Community Housing Act of 2024 Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 6970 DASH Act Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 6785 Rural Housing Service Reform Act of 2023 Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 2790 Rural Housing Service Reform Act of 2023 Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 4069 Affordable and Secure Food Act of 2024 Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 5359 Rural Development Modernization Act Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 1490 Strategy and Investment in Rural Housing Preservation Act of 2023 Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 1389 Rural Housing Service Reform Act of 2023 Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • S 680 DASH Act Amends its part · introduced · 118th Congress
  • HR 2617 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 Amends its part · enacted · 117th Congress
  • S 5282 Affordable and Secure Food Act of 2022 Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 9439 Honoring Promises to Native Nations Act Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 5186 Honoring Promises to Native Nations Act Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 4872 Strategy and Investment in Rural Housing Preservation Act of 2022 Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 7981 Public and Federally Assisted Housing Fire Safety Act of 2022 Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 4442 Public and Federally Assisted Housing Fire Safety Act of 2022 Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 5385 Affordable HOME Act Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 2820 DASH Act Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • S 2234 Affordable HOME Act Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 1537 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for terms and conditions for nonimmigrant workers performing agricultural labor o... Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 1603 Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021 Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 1728 Strategy and Investment in Rural Housing Preservation Act of 2021 Amends its part · introduced · 117th Congress
  • HR 133 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 Amends its part · enacted · 116th Congress
  • HR 5038 Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 Amends · introduced · 116th Congress
  • HR 4916 Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 Amends its part · introduced · 116th Congress
  • S 2160 CO ALERTS Act of 2019 Amends its part · introduced · 116th Congress
  • HR 3620 Strategy and Investment in Rural Housing Preservation Act of 2019 Amends its part · introduced · 116th Congress
  • HR 1690 CO ALERTS Act of 2019 Amends its part · introduced · 116th Congress
  • HR 1625 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 Amends 1484(f)(3)(A) · enacted · 115th Congress
  • S 2489 Tribal Food and Housing Security Act Amends its part 1484(a) · introduced · 115th Congress
  • HR 3354 Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 2018 Amends 1484(f)(3)(A) · introduced · 115th Congress
  • HR 3268 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018 Amends 1484(f)(3)(A) · introduced · 115th Congress

The law today

From the official United States Code, current through Public Law 119-121.

(a) Authorization; terms and conditions The Secretary is authorized to insure and make commitments to insure loans made by lenders other than the United States to the owner of any farm or any association of farmers for the purpose of providing housing and related facilities for domestic farm labor, or to any Indian tribe for such purpose, or to any State (or political subdivision thereof), or any broad-based public or private nonprofit organization, or any limited partnership in which the general partner is a nonprofit entity, or any nonprofit organization of farmworkers incorporated within the State for the purpose of providing housing and related facilities for domestic farm labor any place within the State where a need exists. All such loans shall be made in accordance with terms and conditions substantially identical with those specified in section 1472 of this title, except that— (1) no such loan shall be insured in an amount in excess of the value of the farm involved less any prior liens in the case of a loan to an individual owner of a farm, or the total estimated value of the structures and facilities with respect to which the loan is made in the case of any other loan; (2) no such loan shall be insured if it bears interest at a rate in excess of 1 per centum per annum; (3) out of interest payments by the borrower the Secretary shall retain a charge in an amount not less than one-half of 1 per centum per annum of the unpaid principal balance of the loan; (4) the insurance contracts and agreements with respect to any loan may contain provisions for servicing the loan by the Secretary or by the lender, and for the purchase by the Secretary of the loan if it is not in default, on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe; and (5) the Secretary may take mortgages creating a lien running to the United States for the benefit of the insurance fund referred to in subsection (b) notwithstanding the fact that the note may be held by the lender or his assignee. (b) Utilization of farm tenant mortgage insurance fund; additions to and deposits in fund; deposits in Treasury The Secretary shall utilize the insurance fund created by section 1005a of title 7 1 and the provisions of section 1005c(a), (b), and (c) of title 7 1 to discharge obligations under insurance contracts made pursuant to this section, and (1) the Secretary may utilize the insurance fund to pay taxes, insurance, prior liens, and other expenses to protect the security for loans which have been insured hereunder and to acquire such security property at foreclosure sale or otherwise; (2) the notes and security therefor acquired by the Secretary under insurance contracts made pursuant to this section shall become a part of the insurance fund. Loans insured under this section may be held in the fund and collected in accordance with their terms or may be sold and reinsured. All proceeds from such collections, including the liquidation of security and the proceeds of sales, shall become a part of the insurance fund; and (3) of the charges retained by the Secretary out of interest payments by the borrower, amounts not less than one-half of 1 per centum per annum of the unpaid principal balance of the loan shall be deposited in and become a part of the insurance fund. The remainder of such charges shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and shall be available for administrative expenses of the Farmers Home Administration, to be transferred annually to and become merged with any appropriation for such expenses. (c) Insurance contract; obligation of United States; incontestability Any contract of insurance executed by the Secretary under this section shall be an obligation of the United States and incontestable except for fraud or misrepresentation of which the holder of the contract has actual knowledge. (d) Repealed. Pub. L. 96–153, title V, § 501(b), Dec. 21, 1979, 93 Stat. 1133 (e) Administrative expenses Amounts made available pursuant to section 1483 of this title shall be available for administrative expenses incurred under this section. (f) Definitions As used in this section— (1) the term “housing” means (A) new structures (including household furnishings) suitable for dwelling use by domestic farm labor, and (B) existing structures (including household furnishings) which can be made suitable for dwelling use by domestic farm labor by rehabilitation, alteration, conversion, or improvement; (2) the term “related facilities” means (A) new structures (including household furnishings) suitable for use as dining halls, community rooms or buildings, or infirmaries, or for other essential services facilities, and (B) existing structures (including household furnishings) which can be made suitable for the above uses by rehabilitation, alteration, conversion, or improvement and (C) land necessary for an adequate site; and (3) the term “domestic farm labor” means any person (and the family of such person) who receives a substantial portion of his or her income from primary production of agricultural or aquacultural commodities, the handling of agricultural or aquacultural commodities in the unprocessed stage, or the processing of agricultural or aquacultural commodities, without respect to the source of employment, except that— (A) such person shall be a citizen of the United States, or a person legally admitted for permanent residence, or a person legally admitted to the United States and authorized to work in agriculture; (B) such term includes any person (and the family of such person) who is retired or disabled, but who was domestic farm labor at the time of retirement or becoming disabled; and (C) in applying this paragraph with respect to vacant units in farm labor housing, the Secretary shall make units available for occupancy in the following order of priority: (i) to active farm laborers (and their families); (ii) to retired or disabled farm laborers (and their families) who were active in the local farm labor market at the time of retiring or becoming disabled; and (iii) to other retired or disabled farm laborers (and their families). (g) Waiver of interest rate limitations The Secretary may waive the interest rate limitation contained in subsection (a)(2) and the requirement of section 1471(c)(3) of this title in any case in which the Secretary determines that qualified public or private nonprofit sponsors are not currently available and are not likely to become available within a reasonable period of time and such waiver is necessary to permit farmers to provide housing and related facilities for migrant domestic farm laborers, except that the benefits resulting from such waiver shall accrue to the tenants, and the interest rate on a loan insured under this section and for which the Secretary permits such waiver shall be no less than one-eighth of 1 per centum above the average interest rate on notes or other obligations which are issued under section 1481 of this title and have maturities comparable to such a loan. (h) Determination of need for assistance In making available assistance in any area under this section or section 1486 of this title, the Secretary shall— (1) in determining the need for the assistance, take into consideration the housing needs only of domestic farm labor, including migrant farmworkers, in the area; and (2) in determining whether to provide such assistance, make such determination without regard to the extent or nature of other housing needs in the area. (i) Domestic farm labor housing available for other families Housing and related facilities constructed with loans under this section may be used for tenants eligible for occupancy under section 1485 of this title if the Secretary determines that— (1) there is no longer a need in the area for farm labor housing; or (2) the need for such housing in the area has diminished to the extent that the purpose of the loan, providing housing for domestic farm labor, can no longer be met. (j) Carbon monoxide alarm or detector Housing and related facilities constructed with loans under this section shall contain installed carbon monoxide alarms or detectors that meet or exceed— (1) the standards described in chapters 9 and 11 of the 2018 publication of the International Fire Code, as published by the International Code Council; or (2) any other standards as may be adopted by the Secretary, in collaboration with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, including any relevant updates to the International Fire Code, through a notice published in the Federal Register. (k) Qualifying smoke alarms (1) In general Housing and related facilities constructed with loans under this section shall contain qualifying smoke alarms that are installed in accordance with applicable codes and standards published by the International Code Council or the National Fire Protection Association and the requirements of the National Fire Protection Association Standard 72, or any successor standard, in each level and in or near each sleeping area in such dwelling unit, including in basements but excepting crawl spaces and unfinished attics, and in each common area in a project containing such a dwelling unit. (2) Definitions For purposes of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply: (A) Smoke alarm defined The term “smoke alarm” has the meaning given the term “smoke detector” in section 2225(d) of title 15. (B) Qualifying smoke alarm defined The term “qualifying smoke alarm” means a smoke alarm that— (i) in the case of a dwelling unit built before December 29, 2022, and not substantially rehabilitated after December 29, 2022— (I) (aa) is hardwired; or (bb) uses 10-year non rechargeable, nonreplaceable primary batteries and— (AA) is sealed; (BB) is tamper resistant; and (CC) contains silencing means; and (II) provides notification for persons with hearing loss as required by the National Fire Protection Association Standard 72, or any successor standard; or (ii) in the case of a dwelling unit built or substantially rehabilitated after December 29, 2022, is hardwired.
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