Consumer Protection
Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws – Manufacturers and Dealers – Prices Listed on Dealer Websites [SB-178]
Providing that a manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch may not prohibit a dealer from listing on the dealer's website a vehicle for sale or lease at the purchase price or coerce or require a dealer to list a price different from the purchase price on the dealer's website or take an adverse action against a dealer for listing a vehicle at a particular price on the dealer's website; and defining "purchase price" as the full delivered price of a vehicle, excluding taxes, title fees, and certain other dealer charges.
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Gettr Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Health Occupations - Violations of the Maryland Dentistry Act - Penalties and Cease and Desist Orders [SB-169]
Authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to issue a cease and desist order for certain violations; increasing certain penalties for certain acts related to the unauthorized practice of dentistry or dental hygiene; altering from a misdemeanor to a felony penalties for violating certain provisions of law related to dental laboratory work or advertising a dental appliance by increasing the fine to up to $2,000 per day, instead of a one-time fine, or imprisonment of up to 2 years, rather than 6 months; etc.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Home Builder Guaranty Fund - Award Limitations - Revisions [HB-116]
Increasing the total amount of awards, from $300,000 to $500,000, the Consumer Protection Division of the Office of the Attorney General is authorized to pay to all claimants for acts or omissions of one registered home builder from the Home Builder Guaranty Fund.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Home Builder Guaranty Fund - Award Limitations - Revisions [HB-116]
Increasing the total amount of awards, from $300,000 to $500,000, the Consumer Protection Division of the Office of the Attorney General is authorized to pay to all claimants for acts or omissions of one registered home builder from the Home Builder Guaranty Fund.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Home Builder Guaranty Fund - Award Limitations - Revisions [SB-164]
Increasing the total amount of awards, from $300,000 to $500,000, the Consumer Protection Division of the Office of the Attorney General is authorized to pay to all claimants for acts or omissions of one registered home builder from the Home Builder Guaranty Fund.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Financial Institutions - Security Questions and Measures [SB-160]
Requiring a financial institution that requires a customer to provide an answer to a security question for a certain purpose to allow a customer to choose from at least two options for each required security question; and prohibiting a financial institution from using a customer's mother's maiden name as a means of safeguarding access to the customer's account.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Consumer Protection - Mobile Home Purchasers [HB-93]
Requiring, except under certain circumstances, certain lenders to serve on the borrower at least 30 days before a lender repossesses mobile home a written notice of the lender's intention to repossess a certain mobile home; providing that a mobile home retailer has a duty of good faith and fair dealing in providing financial information to a prospective consumer borrower; prohibiting a mobile home retailer from steering a prospective consumer borrower to certain financing products; etc.
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Requiring settlement moneys and recovered funds be deposited in general revenue [SB-294]
Requiring settlement moneys and recovered funds be deposited in general revenue
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Consumer Protection - Mobile Home Purchasers [SB-155]
Requiring, except under certain circumstances, certain lenders to serve on the borrower at least 30 day before a lender repossesses a mobile home a written notice of the lender's intention to repossess a certain mobile home; providing that a mobile home retailer has a duty of good faith and fair dealing in providing financial information to a prospective consumer borrower; prohibiting a mobile home retailer from steering a prospective consumer borrower to certain financing products; etc.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Consumer Protection – Electronic Transactions – Sale and Lease of Vehicles [SB-134]
Providing that only a dealer may contract for the sale and delivery of a vehicle by electronic means under certain circumstances; providing that a consumer shall be deemed not to have agreed to enter into a transaction for the sale or lease of a vehicle with a dealer by electronic means unless the dealer provides the consumer with certain documents and a reasonable opportunity to review the documents before providing an electronic signature; requiring that a vehicle be delivered at a certain location and within a certain time period; etc.
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Creating Occupational Licensing Consumer Choice Act [SB-218]
Creating Occupational Licensing Consumer Choice Act
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Protecting consumers from unfair pricing practices during state of emergency [SB-208]
Protecting consumers from unfair pricing practices during state of emergency
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Relating generally to pyramid promotional schemes [SB-123]
Relating generally to pyramid promotional schemes
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Prohibiting certain misleading pharmaceutical advertising practices [SB-21]
Prohibiting certain misleading pharmaceutical advertising practices
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Relating to the Consumer Credit and Protection Act [HB-2180]
The purpose of this bill is to declare that the provisions of the Consumer Credit and Protection Act apply to general leases, landlords, tenants and residential rental fees a landlord may charge a general lease of residential real property. The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals held to the contrary in the case of Morrisey v Copper Beech Townhouses, 806 S.E. 2d 172 (W.Va. Oct. 12, 2017), citing, basically, the absence of specific legislative intent that this Act apply to general leases of residential real property.
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Relating to consumer protection of new manufactured home warranties [HB-2163]
The purpose of this bill is to place upon the manufacturers of manufactured homes the duty to meet their obligations and responsibilities under the terms of the express warranties extended to the consumers in this state. The bill provides consumers additional remedies to enforce the warranties.
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
West Virginia Residential Furniture and Children's Products Flame Retardants Act [HB-2341]
The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Residential Furniture and Children's Products Flame Retardants Act administered and enforced under the authority of the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health. The bill prohibits the use of certain flame-retardant chemicals in certain products, including those designed for use by children. The bill states when replacement chemicals may be used in these products and provides exemptions to requirements. The bill requires a report to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance by the
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Conforming state Consumer Credit and Protection Act to federal Fair Debt Collection and Practices Act [SB-17]
Conforming state Consumer Credit and Protection Act to federal Fair Debt Collection and Practices Act
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Relating to pyramid promotional schemes [HB-2198]
The purpose of this bill is to rewrite sections of the pyramid promotional schemes article. The bill provides new definitions and more specifically describes what does and does not constitute an unlawful act under article 15.
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings [HB-2129]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings.