Senate Bill S1109A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits consumer reporting agencies and lenders from using an individual's late payment of cashless tolls to determine their credit worthiness

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Consumer Protection Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S1109 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1480
Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §380-j, Gen Bus L; amd §352, Bank L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7854
2019-2020: S2778
2021-2022: S3444, A9898

2023-S1109 - Summary

Prohibits consumer reporting agencies and lenders from using an individual's late payment of cashless tolls to determine their credit worthiness.

2023-S1109 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1109 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1109
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. COMRIE, ADDABBO, BAILEY, KRUEGER, MANNION, PERSAUD,
   SANDERS, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed
   to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business  law  and the banking law, in
   relation to prohibiting a consumer reporting  agency  or  lender  from
   using an individual's late payment of cashless tolls to determine such
   individual's credit worthiness
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraphs (vii) and (viii) of paragraph 1  of  subdivi-
 sion (f) of section 380-j of the general business law, as added by chap-
 ter 867 of the laws of 1977, are amended to read as follows:
   (vii) information relating to past confinement in a mental institution
 where  the  date  of  last confinement antedates the report by more than
 seven years; [or]
   (viii) LATE PAYMENTS OF ANY CASHLESS TOLLS AS A  FACTOR  TO  DETERMINE
 THE CONSUMER'S CREDIT WORTHINESS, CREDIT STANDING OR CREDIT CAPACITY; OR
   (IX)  any other adverse information which antedates the report by more
 than seven years.
   § 2. Section 352 of the banking law is amended by adding a  new  ninth
 undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
   NO LICENSEE SHALL COLLECT, EVALUATE, REPORT OR MAINTAIN IN THE FILE ON
 A  BORROWER THE BORROWER'S LATE PAYMENT OF CASHLESS TOLLS AS A FACTOR TO
 DETERMINE THE BORROWER'S CREDIT WORTHINESS, CREDIT  STANDING  OR  CREDIT
 CAPACITY. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL BE ENFORCED CONCURRENT-
 LY  BY  THE  SUPERINTENDENT AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER
 PROTECTION AND EACH SHALL UTILIZE THEIR CONSUMER COMPLAINT  AND  ASSIST-
 ANCE HOTLINES TO DOCUMENT COMPLAINTS BY BORROWERS WHO BELIEVE THAT THEIR
 LATE  PAYMENT  OF  CASHLESS TOLLS IS BEING USED TO DENY THEM CREDIT. THE
 SUPERINTENDENT SHALL ENSURE THAT THE CREDIT SCORING FORMULAS FILED  WITH
 THE  DEPARTMENT  DO NOT CONTAIN VARIABLES WHICH ACCOUNT FOR LATE PAYMENT
 OF CASHLESS TOLLS AS PART OF THAT FORMULA  BY  ASKING  THE  LICENSEE  TO
 CERTIFY TO THAT FACT.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
              

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2023-S1109A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1480
Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §380-j, Gen Bus L; amd §352, Bank L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7854
2019-2020: S2778
2021-2022: S3444, A9898

2023-S1109A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits consumer reporting agencies and lenders from using an individual's late payment of cashless tolls to determine their credit worthiness.

2023-S1109A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1109A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1109--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. COMRIE, ADDABBO, BAILEY, KRUEGER, MANNION, PERSAUD,
   SANDERS, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed
   to  be  committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the  general  business  law  and  the  banking  law,  in
   relation  to  prohibiting  a  consumer reporting agency or lender from
   using an individual's late payment of cashless tolls to determine such
   individual's credit worthiness
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraphs (vii) and (viii) of paragraph 1 of subdivi-
 sion (f) of section 380-j of the general business law, as added by chap-
 ter 867 of the laws of 1977, are amended to read as follows:
   (vii) information relating to past confinement in a mental institution
 where the date of last confinement antedates the  report  by  more  than
 seven years; [or]
   (viii) LATE PAYMENTS OF ANY CASHLESS TOLLS; OR
   (IX)  any other adverse information which antedates the report by more
 than seven years.
   § 2. Section 352 of the banking law is amended by adding a  new  ninth
 undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
   NO LICENSEE SHALL COLLECT, EVALUATE, REPORT OR MAINTAIN IN THE FILE ON
 A  BORROWER THE BORROWER'S LATE PAYMENT OF CASHLESS TOLLS AS A FACTOR TO
 DETERMINE THE BORROWER'S CREDIT WORTHINESS, CREDIT  STANDING  OR  CREDIT
 CAPACITY.    THE  SUPERINTENDENT  SHALL  ENSURE  THAT THE CREDIT SCORING
 FORMULAS FILED WITH  THE  DEPARTMENT  DO  NOT  CONTAIN  VARIABLES  WHICH
 ACCOUNT  FOR  LATE  PAYMENT OF CASHLESS TOLLS AS PART OF THAT FORMULA BY
 ASKING THE LICENSEE TO CERTIFY TO THAT FACT.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03418-03-3

              

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