What's happening
This bill requires lenders to clearly disclose interest rates and total loan costs in mail-loan check solicitations sent to non-customers.
Why it matters
Increases borrower awareness by requiring lenders to spell out the exact interest rate and total repayment costs before a consumer cashes or deposits a mail-loan check. This aims to prevent situations where consumers unknowingly accept high-interest loans.
Mandates a clear, easy-to-read cost table at multiple loan amounts and timeframes (six months, one year, three years),. helping potential borrowers better understand how much they’ll really pay over time and compare offers.
Targets unsolicited loan offers sent to non-customers,. a group especially vulnerable to confusing or predatory lending practices, by ensuring they have upfront, standardized information before taking on new debt.
Could lead to more informed borrowing decisions,. potentially reducing the risk of consumers falling into cycles of debt due to unclear loan terms or hidden costs.
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Disclose Loan Check Costs
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- Referred to banks
- Referred to banks
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Disclose Loan Mail Check Costs
In Assembly Committee · Banks · Sponsor Tremaine Wright
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4371
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 11, 2019
Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Banks
AN ACT to amend the banking law, in relation to full disclosure of interest rate on unsolicited mail-loan checks
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 9-t of the banking law, as added by chapter 309 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
2. Any lending institution which issues mail-loan checks shall:
(a) include on the face of each check issued to a non-customer a written statement, in legible type reading "ONE FORM OF VALID PHOTOGRAPHIC ID NEEDED TO CASH OR DEPOSIT"; provided, however, that any entity cashing or accepting a mail-loan check for deposit may require more than one form of identification;
(b) make no reference on the outside of the envelope containing a mail-loan check that indicates that a check is enclosed within such envelope;
(c) provide that all mail-loan checks shall be non-transferable; [and]
(d) include an expiration date of not more than six months on the mail-loan check; and
(e) provide in legible type on the front page of the solicitation letter, the interest rate or rates to be applied to such loan, and provide a table demonstrating the total cost of such loan at incremental dollar amounts, at the offered interest rate, over incremental periods of time of six months, one year, and three years.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the banking law, in relation to full disclosure of interest rate on unsolicited mail-loan checks
Purpose or general idea of bill
To provide in legible type on the front page of the solicitation letter, interest rate or rates to be applied to such loan, and provi de a table demonstrating the total cost of such loan at incremental dollar amount.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1 will amended subdivision 2 of section 9-t of the banking law, as added by Ch. 309 of the laws of 2002.
Justification
This bill would mandate lending institutions that send unsolicited mail- loan checks to clearly state the interest rate and the total cost in a dollar amount. Unfortunately, we have seen too many cases where individ- uals claim solicitation.
Prior legislative history
2017-18: S3076 - Referred to Banks 2015-16:S.1723 - Referred to Banks 2013-14:S.2910 - Referred to Banks 2011-12:S.1494 - Referred to Banks 2009-10:S.2285/A.3018 - Referred to Banks/Reported to Codes 2007-08:S.4527/A.6425 - Referred to Banks 2005-06:S.1173/A.6176 - Referred to Banks 2004-05:S.4175/A.7399 - Referred to Banks
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
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