Bill Text: NY A01856 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a lender providing a reverse mortgage to a person who is 60 years of age or older may receive not more than 20% of the future appreciation of property secured by the mortgage as consideration for providing such reverse mortgage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to judiciary [A01856 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01856-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1856
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 13, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. FARRELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Judiciary
       AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to  reverse  mortgage
         loans for persons sixty years of age or older
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 280 of the real  property  law  is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (d-1) to read as follows:
    3    (D-1)    SUCH  RULES OR REGULATIONS AS THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FINANCIAL
    4  SERVICES SHALL ADOPT, THE AUTHORIZED LENDER, AT ITS OPTION, MAY  RECEIVE
    5  NO  MORE  THAN TWENTY PERCENT OF THE FUTURE APPRECIATION OF THE PROPERTY
    6  SECURING THE REVERSE MORTGAGE LOAN AS FULL OR PARTIAL CONSIDERATION  FOR
    7  THE  MAKING  OF  A  REVERSE  MORTGAGE LOAN; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH
    8  FUTURE APPRECIATION SHALL BE LIMITED BY SUCH RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  AS
    9  THE  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  FINANCIAL  SERVICES MAY ADOPT OR THE AUTHORIZED
   10  LENDER MAY CHARGE A FIXED RATE OF INTEREST ON THE OUTSTANDING BALANCE OF
   11  MONIES ADVANCED UNDER THE REVERSE MORTGAGE AGREEMENT OR ANY  COMBINATION
   12  THEREOF.  ANY SUCH APPRECIATION SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED INTEREST FOR THE
   13  PURPOSES OF ANY LAW REGULATING THE MAXIMUM RATE OF INTEREST WHICH MAY BE
   14  CHARGED,  TAKEN  OR RECEIVED INCLUDING SECTIONS 190.40 AND 190.42 OF THE
   15  PENAL LAW; AND
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   17  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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