Report Title:

Mortgage Brokers and Solicitors; Insurance Producer Exemption

Description:

Includes employees and exclusive agents within the exemption from regulation under the mortgage broker and solicitor law provided for banks, insurance companies, and other similar organizations; defines "exclusive agents" as licensed insurance producers who represent a single banking subsidiary of an insurance company.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1737

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to mortgage brokers and solicitors.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 454-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§454-2 Exemptions. This chapter does not apply to the following:

(1) Banks, trust companies, building and loan associations, pension trusts, credit unions, insurance companies, financial services loan companies, or federally licensed small business investment companies, authorized under any law of this State or of the United States to do business in the State[;] and their employees and exclusive agents. For the purposes of this paragraph, "exclusive agents" means those insurance producers licensed under chapter 431 who represent a single banking subsidiary of an insurance company;

(2) A person making or acquiring a mortgage loan with one's own funds for one's own investment without intent to resell the mortgage loan;

(3) A person licensed to practice law in the State, not actively and principally engaged in the business of negotiating loans secured by real property, when the person renders services in the course of the person's practice as an attorney;

(4) A person licensed as a real estate broker or salesperson in the State, not actively engaged in the business of negotiating loans secured by real property, when the person renders services in the course of the person's practice as a real estate broker or salesperson;

(5) An institutional investor negotiating, entering into, or performing under a loan purchase agreement for its portfolio, for subsequent resale to other institutional investors, or for placement of the mortgages into pools or packaging them into mortgage-backed securities. As used in this paragraph "loan purchase agreement" means an agreement or arrangement under which a bank, savings and loan, credit union, financial services loan company, or other financial institution registered to do business in the State of Hawaii agrees to sell mortgage loans or obtain funding therefor, with or without the transfer of servicing rights, to an institutional investor; and

(6) Foreign lender as defined in section 207-11."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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