Bill Text: NY A03168 | 2019-2020 | 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 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-29 - SIGNED CHAP.423 [A03168 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03168-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3168
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, WEPRIN, BLAKE -- 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    § 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.
                                                                   LBD07264-01-9
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