2SHB 1405 -
By Senators Hobbs, Benton, Rockefeller
ADOPTED 04/09/2011
Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
"Sec. 1 RCW 31.04.025 and 2009 c 311 s 1 and 2009 c 120 s 3 are
each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
(1) Each loan made to a resident of this state by a licensee, or
persons subject to this chapter, is subject to the authority and
restrictions of this chapter, unless such loan is made under the
authority of chapter 63.14 RCW.
(2) This chapter does not apply to the following:
(a) Any person doing business under, and as permitted by, any law
of this state or of the United States relating to banks, savings banks,
trust companies, savings and loan or building and loan associations, or
credit unions;
(b) Entities making loans under chapter 19.60 RCW (pawnbroking);
(c) Entities making loans under chapter 63.14 RCW (retail
installment sales of goods and services);
(d) Entities making loans under chapter 31.45 RCW (check cashers
and sellers);
(e) Any person making ((loans)) a loan primarily for business,
commercial, or agricultural purposes((, or)) unless the loan is secured
by a lien on the borrower's primary residence;
(f) Any person making loans made to government or government
agencies or instrumentalities((,)) or making loans to organizations as
defined in the federal truth in lending act;
(((f))) (g) Entities making loans under chapter 43.185 RCW (housing
trust fund);
(((g))) (h) Entities making loans under programs of the United
States department of agriculture, department of housing and urban
development, or other federal government program that provides funding
or access to funding for single-family housing developments or grants
to low-income individuals for the purchase or repair of single-family
housing; ((and)) (i) Nonprofit housing organizations making loans, or loans
made, under housing programs that are funded in whole or in part by
federal or state programs if the primary purpose of the programs is to
assist low-income borrowers with purchasing or repairing housing or the
development of housing for low-income Washington state residents; and
(h)
(j) Entities making loans which are not residential mortgage loans
under a credit card plan.
(3) The director may, at his or her discretion, waive applicability
of the consumer loan company licensing provisions of this chapter to
other persons, not including individuals subject to the S.A.F.E. act,
making or servicing loans when the director determines it necessary to
facilitate commerce and protect consumers. The director may adopt
rules interpreting this section.
Sec. 2 RCW 31.04.027 and 2001 c 81 s 3 are each amended to read
as follows:
It is a violation of this chapter for a licensee, its officers,
directors, employees, or independent contractors, or any other person
subject to this chapter to:
(1) Directly or indirectly employ any scheme, device, or artifice
to defraud or mislead any borrower, to defraud or mislead any lender,
or to defraud or mislead any person;
(2) Directly or indirectly engage in any unfair or deceptive
practice toward any person;
(3) Directly or indirectly obtain property by fraud or
misrepresentation;
(4) Solicit or enter into a contract with a borrower that provides
in substance that the consumer loan company may earn a fee or
commission through the consumer loan company's best efforts to obtain
a loan even though no loan is actually obtained for the borrower;
(5) Solicit, advertise, or enter into a contract for specific
interest rates, points, or other financing terms unless the terms are
actually available at the time of soliciting, advertising, or
contracting;
(6) Fail to make disclosures to loan applicants as required by RCW
31.04.102 and any other applicable state or federal law;
(7) Make, in any manner, any false or deceptive statement or
representation with regard to the rates, points, or other financing
terms or conditions for a residential mortgage loan or engage in bait
and switch advertising;
(8) Negligently make any false statement or knowingly and willfully
make any omission of material fact in connection with any reports filed
with the department by a licensee or in connection with any
investigation conducted by the department;
(9) Make any payment, directly or indirectly, to any appraiser of
a property, for the purposes of influencing the independent judgment of
the appraiser with respect to the value of the property; ((or))
(10) Accept from any borrower at or near the time a loan is made
and in advance of any default an execution of, or induce any borrower
to execute, any instrument of conveyance, not including a mortgage or
deed of trust, to the lender of any ownership interest in the
borrower's primary residence that is the security for the borrower's
loan;
(11) Obtain at the time of closing a release of future damages for
usury or other damages or penalties provided by law or a waiver of the
provisions of this chapter; or
(12) Advertise any rate of interest without conspicuously
disclosing the annual percentage rate implied by that rate of interest
or otherwise fail to comply with any requirement of the truth in
lending act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 1601 and regulation Z, 12 C.F.R. Sec. 226,
the real estate settlement procedures act, 12 U.S.C. Sec. 2601 and
regulation X, 24 C.F.R. Sec. 3500, or the equal credit opportunity act,
15 U.S.C. Sec. 1691 and regulation B, Sec. 202.9, 202.11, and 202.12,
or any other applicable federal statute, as now or hereafter amended,
in any advertising of residential mortgage loans or any other consumer
loan company activity."
2SHB 1405 -
By Senators Hobbs, Benton, Rockefeller
ADOPTED 04/09/2011
On page 1, line 1 of the title, after "act;" strike the remainder of the title and insert "amending RCW 31.04.027; and reenacting and amending RCW 31.04.025."
EFFECT: Clarifies that a consumer loan act licensee may not accept from the borrower any conveyance of an ownership interest, not including mortgages or deeds of trust, in the borrower's primary residence when the loan is made and in advance of default.