Bill Text: NY A03521 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to including credit unions and federal credit unions within the definition of bank, trust company or national bank for the purpose of the banking development district program (which was created to encourage the establishment of bank branches in geographic locations where there is a demonstrated need for banking services); relates to directing the banking board to promulgate rules and regulations to authorize the participation of credit unions and federal credit unions in such program; provides that for purposes of such program, a credit union may include in its membership any person or organization located within a local community, neighborhood or rural district where there is a demonstrated need for banking services.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-08 - ordered to third reading rules cal.153 [A03521 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03521-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         3521--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROBINSON, KEARNS, MOSLEY, SEPULVEDA, WEPRIN,
          PERRY, RUSSELL, BRABENEC, STECK -- Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.
          SIMANOWITZ  --  read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Banks --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Banks
          in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee
        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
          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, paragraph (b) as further amended by section 104
     4  of  part  A  of  chapter  62  of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    5. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision  two  of  section
     7  two  hundred  thirty-seven  of  this  chapter;  for the purposes of this
     8  section, paragraph c of subdivision two of section ten  of  the  general
     9  municipal  law, subdivision six of section one hundred five of the state
    10  finance law and section four hundred eighty-five-f of the real  property
    11  tax  law,  any reference to a bank, trust company or national bank shall
    12  be deemed to include a  savings  bank,  savings  and  loan  association,
    13  federal  savings and loan association [or], federal savings bank, credit
    14  union or federal credit union; provided, however, that  such  provisions
    15  of law do not grant a savings bank, savings and loan association, feder-
    16  al  savings  and  loan  association [or], federal savings bank, a credit
    17  union or a federal credit  union  eligibility  to  accept  municipal  or
    18  public  funds  or  municipal or public moneys other than for the limited
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01032-05-6
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