Bill Text: NY A00168 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: An act to amend the banking law, in relation to including credit unions and federal credit unions within provisions regarding banking development district program and providing for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to banks [A00168 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A00168-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          168
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2009
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. JEFFRIES, PERRY, WRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by --
         M. of A. HYER-SPENCER -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
         Banks
       AN  ACT to amend the banking law, in relation to including credit unions
         and federal credit unions within provisions regarding banking develop-
         ment  district  program  and  providing  for  the  repeal  of  certain
         provisions upon expiration thereof
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 96-d of the banking law, as  added
    2  by  chapter 526 of the laws of 1998, paragraph (a) as amended by chapter
    3  328 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
    4    5. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision  two  of  section
    5  two  hundred  thirty-seven  of  this  chapter;  for the purposes of this
    6  section, paragraph c of subdivision two of section ten  of  the  general
    7  municipal  law, subdivision six of section one hundred five of the state
    8  finance law and section four hundred eighty-five-f of the real  property
    9  tax  law,  any reference to a bank, trust company or national bank shall
   10  be deemed to include a  savings  bank,  savings  and  loan  association,
   11  federal  savings and loan association [or], federal savings bank, CREDIT
   12  UNION OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION; provided, however, that  such  provisions
   13  of law do not grant a savings bank, savings and loan association, feder-
   14  al  savings  and  loan  association [or], federal savings bank, A CREDIT
   15  UNION OR A FEDERAL CREDIT  UNION  eligibility  to  accept  municipal  or
   16  public  funds  or  municipal or public moneys other than for the limited
   17  purposes of the establishment of  a  branch  in  a  banking  development
   18  district pursuant to this section. Any such municipal or public funds or
   19  moneys  shall  be  deposited  only at the branch established pursuant to
   20  this section, and any municipal funds or moneys may be deposited only by
   21  the sponsoring municipality in which the branch and banking  development
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00311-01-9

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    1  district are located; provided further that any such municipal or public
    2  funds or moneys shall be subject to the same requirements which apply to
    3  municipal  or  public funds or moneys deposited in a bank, trust company
    4  or  national bank and shall also be subject to the provisions of section
    5  one hundred five of the state finance law or section ten of the  general
    6  municipal law relating to such deposits.
    7    (b)  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of law, the banking board
    8  shall promulgate rules and regulations to authorize the participation of
    9  savings banks, savings and  loan  associations,  federal  savings  banks
   10  [and],  federal savings and loan associations, CREDIT UNIONS AND FEDERAL
   11  CREDIT UNIONS in the program established pursuant to this section.
   12    S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 451 of the banking  law  is  amended  by
   13  adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows:
   14    (C-1)  FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF SECTION NINETY-SIX-D OF THIS CHAPTER, THE
   15  CREDIT UNION MAY INCLUDE IN ITS MEMBERSHIP ANY  PERSON  OR  ORGANIZATION
   16  LOCATED  WITHIN A LOCAL COMMUNITY, NEIGHBORHOOD, OR RURAL DISTRICT WHERE
   17  THERE IS A DEMONSTRATED NEED FOR BANKING SERVICES AS DETERMINED  BY  THE
   18  SUPERINTENDENT.
   19    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
   20  have been in full force  and  effect  on  and  after  January  1,  2009,
   21  provided,  however,  that the amendments to subdivision 2 of section 451
   22  of the banking law made by section two of this act shall expire  and  be
   23  deemed repealed on the same date as section 4 of chapter 526 of the laws
   24  of  1998, as amended and provided, further that the amendments to subdi-
   25  vision 5 of section 96-d of the banking law made by section one of  this
   26  act  shall not affect the repeal of such subdivision and shall be deemed
   27  to be repealed therewith as provided in section 4 of chapter 526 of  the
   28  laws  of  1998;  provided, however, that any branch established prior to
   29  the expiration and repeal of this act by a credit union or federal cred-
   30  it union in a banking development district pursuant to  this  act  shall
   31  continue to operate in accordance with the provisions of the banking law
   32  as amended by this act and remain eligible for all the rights and privi-
   33  leges authorized by this act.
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