Bill Text: HI SB2018 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Negotiable Instruments; Dishonored Checks

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-02-12 - (H) Referred to CPC, referral sheet 27 [SB2018 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2018-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2018

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 490:3-506.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§490:3-506.5  Charges for dishonored checks.  The payee or a holder in due course of any check, draft, or order for the payment of money that has been dishonored for lack of funds or credit to pay the check, draft, or order or because the maker has no account with the drawee shall be allowed to assess the maker a [reasonable] service charge of not more than $30."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

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

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Negotiable Instruments; Dishonored Checks

 

Description:

Removes limitations pertaining to reasonableness for service charges relating to dishonored checks.

 

 

 

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