2005 House Bill 4834 ↩

House Roll Call 320: Passed

To require licensure and impose regulations on providers of a "deferred presentment service" (or "payday loans"), including license fees and bonding requirements. The maximum allowable loan would be $600, and fees (interest) would be capped under a sliding scale of 11 percent to 15 percent depending on the size of the loan. Licensees would have to provide detailed warnings and notices about the loans, and use a real-time state database of all loan transactions to check whether an applicant has an outstanding payday loan elsewhere. The bill limits the duration of such loans, and prohibits "rollovers" and multiple loans.