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Consumer Credit SEE Credit
Consumer Protection —

Charitable organizations, solicitation and
registration provisions altered; Charitable

Giving Information Program established...........

Charitable solicitations, prohibited acts and

penalties, provisions altered....................

Commercial fertilizers or soil conditioners,

provisions altered for registration, inspection,

distribution, and regulation.....................

Consumer loans of $6,000 or less with interest rates
or fees higher than what the State authorizes,

enforceability exceptions altered................

Discrimination against applicants for credit,

prohibitions added...............................

Division of, appropriation to......................

Facsimile transmissions, unsolicited, prohibitions

added............................................

Federally assisted housing, preserving the

availability and affordability of and reducing
displacement from, measures added to assist in,
and to protect against prepayment of subsidized
mortgages and termination of rental subsidy

agreements.......................................

Health maintenance organizations, rehabilitation

and insolvency, provisions added.......•..........

Investment advisers, securities broker-dealers, and
financial planners, regulation and registration

provisions.......................................

Letters of credit as security for deposits on new

homes, provisions altered......................

Long-term care insurance, provisions generally

added............................................

Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, liability of
and interference with representatives,
retaliation against complainants, conflict of

interest regulations, provisions added...........

Medicare supplement policies, amendments added as
required by amendments to the federal Social

Security Act.....................................

Mortgage lenders, licensing and regulation

provisions added; existing mortgage broker/banker

licensing provisions repealed....................

Nursing homes, civil money penalties for serious or
life-threatening deficiencies, provisions added..
Pesticide registration and labeling, provisions

generally altered.................................

Probate assistance to be provided on request,

provisions for...................................

Real estate brokers or salespersons, disclosure
that they represent the seller or lessee,
requirements added...............................

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