7 U.S.C. § 2008h
Loan and loan servicing limitations
United States · Title 7 — AGRICULTURE · Status: effective
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- 7 U.S.C. § 2008h, Loan and loan servicing limitations, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/429973
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The Secretary may not make a direct operating loan under subchapter II to a borrower who is delinquent on any loan made or guaranteed under this chapter.
Except as provided in paragraph (2)—
the Secretary may not guarantee a loan under this chapter to a borrower that has received—
The Secretary may make a direct or guaranteed farm operating loan for paying annual farm or ranch operating expenses of a borrower who—
The Secretary may make an emergency loan under section 1961 of this title to a borrower that—
For purposes of clause (i), a borrower who was restructured with a write-down or restructuring under section 2001 of this title shall not be considered to have received debt forgiveness on a loan made or guaranteed under this chapter.
The Secretary may not provide to a borrower debt forgiveness on a direct loan made under this chapter if the borrower has received debt forgiveness on another direct loan made under this chapter.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996
- Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999
- Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
- Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018