Bill Text: HI HB1345 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Bill 1345 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Interest

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1345 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1345-Introduced.html

Report Title:

Interest

Description:

Limits the amount of pre-paid interest that may be charged by a lender for a residential mortgage.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1345
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to interest.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 478, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§478-A Pre-paid interest on residential mortgages; limit. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no lender shall charge pre-paid interest, as a part of a mortgage, of an amount greater than two per cent of the purchase price of a residence. The purchase price shall exclude all fees as may be charged by the lender or escrow.

(b) For purposes of this section, "mortgage" means every transfer of an interest in real property, except fixtures, made as security for the performance of another act or subject to defeasance upon the payment of an obligation, whether the transfer is made in trust or otherwise."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.