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Full Session Law (pdf) Bill Summary (pdf) This legislation requires mortgage loan servicers doing business in North Carolina to be licensed and imposes new standards on their loan collection activities, providing more protection for North Carolina homeowners. This bill adds mortgage servicing regulation to the regulation of mortgage bankers and mortgage brokers. New duties for mortgage servicers include: Safeguarding and...

See details below about 2015 NC General Assembly bills: Senate budget bill would repeal State Fair Housing Act Bill to legalize 80 to 125% loans still stalled Bill to roll back debt collection protections also stalled Ratified bill reduces protections against harassing calls Wage garnishment put into study committee bill Bills to reduce protections against mortgage broker abuses have not...

August 8, 2013 This legislative session was truly like no other in recent history. Many changes to existing laws were made, and certainly our laws protecting consumers from predatory lending were targeted. A stated objective of the 2013 legislature was to reduce regulation and revise North Carolina's business-related laws to be no more stringent than federal law. This, coupled with...

June 20, 2013 Learn about a pair of stalled payday lending bills, a bill to authorize predatory car title lending bill, a just signed consumer installment loan law that raises rates and fees, and a predatory mortgage lending bill in committee in our June 2013 NC legislative update. Payday bills stalled (SB 89/HB 875) Car title lending bill stalled (HB...

On July 3, the NC General Assembly adjourned until January 2013. In this Legislative Wrap-up for the two-year session, we have summarized (click on each bill to learn more): Bad bills that died HB 810: Raise rates and fees on installment loans HB 814: Weaken mortgage lending protections HB 654: Weaken protections against foreclosure rescue scams and real estate abuses...

North Carolina allows wage garnishment for certain judgments, such as child support and taxes. House Bill 30 as originally drafted, Allow Wage Garnishment to Satisfy Judgments, would have expanded wage garnishment to other judgments, putting struggling families at severe financial risk. Once concerns were raised with the bill sponsor, the bill was amended significantly to deal with issues raised by...

The North Carolina Consumer Finance Act lets non-bank lenders make installment loans of $10,000 or less. House Bill 810, Consumer Finance Act Amendments, as amended, would have: Increased the maximum loan size from $10,000 to 15,000, Increased the interest charged on these loans, which can already be as high as 54% annual interest, Added numerous new fees, and Continued to...

HB 773, the omnibus Studies Act of 2011, includes language that would have created a joint study commission on consumer finance loans under $3000 (see page 52). This would be the fourth study commission in 5 years. However, it appears that the studies bill cannot be approved until the short session starting in May 2012. The Senate made several changes...

HB 484 transfers the authority of the State Home Foreclosure Prevention Project (SHFPP), a very important program for NC homeowners at risk of foreclosure, from the NC Commissioner of Banks (NCCOB) to the NC Housing Finance Agency (NCHFA). Since the NCHFA was already administering a number of foreclosure prevention programs, most notably the NC Foreclosure Prevention Fund, this new law...

SB 1015, the Homeowner and Homebuyer Protection Act, was passed in 2010. This legislation addressed a number of predatory real estate practices that took advantage of families having trouble paying their home loan or finding a decent loan to buy a home. These abuses included foreclosure rescue scams, as well as lease option and contract for deed agreements. HB 654...