File Code: Commercial Law - Credit Regulation
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
 Delegates Curran and
 Faulkner
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Consumer Credit - Mortgage Lenders - Regulatory Reform and Antifraud
Protections
 
Altering the licensing and regulation of mortgage lenders and brokers;
adding specified exemptions; imposing additional licensure
requirements; specifying fees, penalties, bonding requirements, etc.,
for mortgage brokers; revising the payment schedule and increasing the
term for specified licensure fees; altering specified credit laws;
increasing the ceiling on the points and other fees that lenders may
charge consumers when offering credit; clarifying that mortgage
brokers may not enter into exclusive dealing contracts; etc.
House Action
- 2/27
 - First Reading House Rules
 - 3/3
 - Re-referred Commerce and Government Matters
 -      Hearing 3/4 at 1:15 p.m.
 - 3/11
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Commerce and Government Matters
 - 3/12
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Special Order 3/13 (Delegate Crumlin) Adopted
 - 3/13
 - Floor Amendment (Delegate Crumlin) Rejected (37-81)
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Crumlin) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Genn) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate Crumlin) Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/17
 - Third Reading Failed (66-66)
 
Senate Action
- No Action
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate Gerald J. Curran, District 43
 - Delegate Patricia Anne Faulkner, District 14A
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - AGENTS AND BROKERS
 - BONDS -see also- COUNTY & BALTIMORE CITY BONDS; STATE BONDS.
 - COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
 - CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- ADVTG.; LABELING; WARRANTIES.
 - CONTRACTS -see also- LAND INSTALLMENT CONTRACTS; PROCUREMENT
 - CREDIT
 - DISCLOSURE
 - FEES -see also- DEVELOPMENT FEES AND TAXES
 - FIDUCIARIES
 - FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -see also- BANKS & TRUST CO; CREDIT U
 - FRAUD
 - LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES LICENSES
 - LOANS
 - MORTGAGES
 - PENALTIES
 - PERJURY
 - REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Commercial Law
 - (
 12-903 ,
 12-905 ,
 12-905 ,
 12-1005 
)
 -   Financial Institutions
 - (
 11-501 ,
 11-502 ,
 11-505 ,
 11-506 ,
 11-506.1 ,
 11-507 ,
 11-508 ,
 11-511 ,
 11-512 ,
 11-521.1 ,
 11-523 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 012194/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 13, 1997     at: 10:44
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 032795/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 13, 1997     at: 10:45
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 076553/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 12, 1997     at: 10:14
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 482891/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 13, 1997     at: 10:31
 Status: Rejected        
 - Number: 552992/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 13, 1997     at: 10:46
 Status: Adopted