ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 363

(f)      (1) The Board shall mail to each applicant notice of the applicant's
examination score.

(2) Any applicant who requests an appointment within 60 days after the
date on which the notice is mailed may review the applicant's answers to the
examination.

(g)     (1) If the Board uses the services of the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants to grade an examination, the Board may send the examination
answers to the Institute BY ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION, by mail, or by a private
delivery service.

(2) If the Board sends out examination answers for grading in
accordance with paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Board is not liable for the loss or
destruction of any of the examination answers while the answers are out of the
possession of the Board.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 2003.

Approved May 22, 2003.

CHAPTER 363
(Senate Bill 160)

AN ACT concerning

Banking Institutions - Truncated Accounts

FOR the purpose of repealing certain provisions of law requiring certain banking
institutions to offer customers a certain checking account plan and to provide
certain information to a customer opening a truncated checking account;
clarifying that a request by a customer with a truncated account for return of a
check must be in writing; requiring a banking institution that returns check
facsimiles instead of original checks to a customer who has requested the return
of a check for tax audits or litigation, litigation, or in connection with campaign
financing reporting requirements to return to the customer, on the customer's
request, certain check facsimiles at no additional cost to the customer; altering
the purposes for which a customer with a truncated account may request the
return of a check; altering the number of checks that a banking institution must
return to a customer with a truncated account under certain circumstances;
clarifying that a banking institution may return a check facsimile instead of an
original check to a customer under certain circumstances; requiring a banking
institution, on request of a customer with a certain truncated account, to return
to the customer, on a regular basis, the customer's original checks or certain
check facsimiles under certain circumstances; requiring a banking institution,
on request of a customer with a certain truncated account, to return to the

          customer, on a regular basis and at no additional cost to the customer, certain

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