Bill Text: NY S02420 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relates to the definition of eligible securities in relation to obligations of domestic corporations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - SIGNED CHAP.424 [S02420 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02420-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relates to the definition of eligible securities in relation to obligations of domestic corporations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - SIGNED CHAP.424 [S02420 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02420-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2420 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Banks AN ACT to amend the banking law, in relation to deposits of state and municipal funding in banking institutions The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The banking law is amended by adding a new section 12-b to 2 read as follows: 3 § 12-b. State and municipal funds deposited in state chartered banking 4 institutions. Notwithstanding any provision of the state finance law, 5 the local finance law or this chapter to the contrary, a state chartered 6 banking institution which holds state funds or the funds of any poli- 7 tical subdivision thereof may accept and pledge investment grade corpo- 8 rate bonds, to the extent authorized by the federal reserve bank, as 9 collateral for any discount window borrowing of such funds. Furthermore 10 municipal bonds having five or more years of maturity may be pledged to 11 secure such deposits. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01882-01-7