Bill Text: NY A04882 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires posting notice of the department of financial services toll free consumer's hot-line telephone number.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to banks [A04882 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A04882-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4882
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 13, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Banks
       AN ACT to amend the banking law, in relation to requiring posting notice
         of the department of financial services toll free  consumer's  hotline
         telephone number
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  The opening paragraph of subdivision 8 of section 14-f  of
    2  the  banking  law is designated paragraph (a) and a new paragraph (b) is
    3  added to read as follows:
    4    (B) WHERE A BANKING INSTITUTION  POSTS  IN  THE  PUBLIC  AREA  OF  ITS
    5  OFFICES  THE  NOTICES  FOR INFORMATION REQUIRED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS
    6  SUBDIVISION, IT SHALL ALSO  POST  EQUALLY  CONSPICUOUS  NOTICE  IN  SUCH
    7  PUBLIC  AREAS  AND  IN  THE  SAME  MANNER, OF THE DEPARTMENT'S TOLL FREE
    8  CONSUMER'S HOTLINE TELEPHONE NUMBER, WHERE CONSUMERS CAN FILE COMPLAINTS
    9  IF A CONSUMER IS NOT SATISFIED WITH THE SERVICES A  BANKING  INSTITUTION
   10  PROVIDES.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   12  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08659-01-3
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