SENATE BILL No. 1165

 

 

March 16, 2006, Introduced by Senator BRATER and referred to the Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1996 PA 354, entitled

 

"Savings bank act,"

 

(MCL 487.3101 to 487.3804) by adding section 430a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 430a. (1) Upon receipt of a written request from an

 

individual who is an outsourced worker or is unemployed as a result

 

of the bankruptcy of his or her employer, a savings bank shall

 

allow the individual to defer making payments of principal and to

 

make payments of interest only on any eligible loan made or

 

serviced by the savings bank, without assessment of a penalty or

 

the accrual of additional interest and without declaring a default

 

on the loan, until the first of any of the following occur:

 

     (a) The individual sells the residential real property or


 

primary vehicle securing the eligible loan.

 

     (b) The individual obtains comparable employment.

 

     (c) A period of 12 months has elapsed.

 

     (2) As used in this section:

 

     (a) "Eligible loan" means a loan secured by a mortgage or

 

other interest in an individual's residential real property or

 

secured by a lien, security interest, or other interest in an

 

individual's primary vehicle.

 

     (b) "Outsourced worker" means an adversely affected worker, as

 

that term is defined in 20 CFR 617.3.