Bill Text: NY A10851 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that any person who has been injured by reason of any violation of any such rules, regulations or policies as the superintendent may promulgate may bring an action in his or her own name; assert a counterclaim; or, if an action is commenced by the mortgagee or anyone acting on its behalf, bring a third party claim, against either the mortgagee and/or the mortgage servicer to enjoin any violations thereof; authorizes damages; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-24 - referred to banks [A10851 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10851-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10851

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 24, 2020
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Dinowitz) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Banks

        AN ACT to amend the banking law, in relation to mortgage loan servicers

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 595-b of the banking law is amended by  adding  two
     2  new subdivisions 3 and 4 to read as follows:
     3    3.  Actions and damages. (a) Any person who has been injured by reason
     4  of any violation of any such  rules,  regulations  or  policies  as  the
     5  superintendent  may  promulgate to effectuate the purposes of this arti-
     6  cle, including but not limited  to  3  NYCRR  419  or  any  subsequently
     7  promulgated mortgage servicing rules pursuant to this subdivision, may:
     8    (i) Bring an action in his or her own name;
     9    (ii) Assert a counterclaim; or
    10    (iii)  If  an action is commenced by the mortgagee or anyone acting on
    11  its behalf, bring a third party  claim,  against  either  the  mortgagee
    12  and/or the mortgage servicer to enjoin any violations thereof.
    13    (b) The person injured pursuant to this section:
    14    (i)  May  recover  statutory  damages  of  one  thousand  dollars  per
    15  violation;
    16    (ii) May recover treble actual damages; and
    17    (iii) If awarded damages or injunctive relief, shall also be  entitled
    18  to  recover  costs and expenses, including but not limited to reasonable
    19  attorneys' fees.
    20    (c) The mortgagee and the  mortgage  servicer  shall  be  jointly  and
    21  severally  liable  for  any  recoveries  by  an injured mortgagor in any
    22  action brought pursuant to this subdivision.
    23    4. Compliance with rules, regulations or policies. Compliance with any
    24  such rules, regulations or policies as the superintendent may promulgate
    25  to effectuate the purposes of this article, including but not limited to
    26  3 NYCRR 419 or any subsequently  promulgated  mortgage  servicing  rules
    27  pursuant to this subdivision, shall be a condition precedent to commenc-
    28  ing an action to foreclose upon a mortgage subject to this article or an
    29  action  on  the  note,  and the failure to comply with such rules, regu-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16957-01-0
        A. 10851                            2

     1  lations or policies shall be a complete defense to a foreclosure  action
     2  or  action  on  the  note,  even  if servicing has been transferred to a
     3  different mortgage servicer when a foreclosure action or action  on  the
     4  note is commenced.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.