LGBTQ Business Equal Credit Enforcement and Investment Act
This bill requires financial institutions to report certain credit application data to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for the purposes of enforcing fair lending laws. Specifically, financial institutions must report this data regarding lesbian-, gay-, bisexual-, transgender-, or queer-owned businesses. Currently, this data is reported regarding women-owned, minority-owned, and small businesses.
To amend the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to require the collection of 
      small business loan data related to LGBTQ-owned businesses.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``LGBTQ Business Equal Credit 
Enforcement and Investment Act''.

SEC. 2. SMALL BUSINESS LOAN DATA COLLECTION.

    Section 704B of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (15 U.S.C. 1691c-
2) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``LGBTQ-owned,'' after ``minority-owned,'' 
        each place such term appears;
            (2) in subsection (e)(2)(G), by inserting ``(including 
        sexual orientation and gender identity),'' after ``sex''; and
            (3) in subsection (h), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) LGBTQ-owned business.--The term `LGBTQ-owned 
        business' means a business--
                    ``(A) more than 50 percent of the ownership or 
                control of which is held by 1 or more individuals self-
                identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or 
                queer; and
                    ``(B) more than 50 percent of the net profit or 
                loss of which accrues to 1 or more individuals self-
                identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or 
                queer.''.
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LGBTQ Business Equal Credit Enforcement and Investment Act
To amend the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to require the collection of small business loan data related to LGBTQ-owned businesses.
LGBTQ Business Equal Credit Enforcement and Investment Act
Rep. Torres, Ritchie