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Synopsis As Introduced Amends the Currency Exchange Act. Defines "government assistance check", "government check", "payroll check", "printed", and "protected class". Provides additional considerations by the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation for determining the maximum rate schedules that can be charged for check cashing and writing of money orders by community currency exchanges and ambulatory currency exchanges. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation's authority to establish rate schedules for check cashing is subject to specified rate caps. Makes other changes. Effective June 1, 2019.
Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Currency Exchange Act. In the list of things the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation shall take into account in determining the maximum rate schedules that can be charged for check cashing and writing of money orders by community currency exchanges and ambulatory currency exchanges, adds the impact on consumers and whether the rate schedule will disproportionately impact anyone on the basis of any protected characteristic or category listed and defined in specified provisions of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Effective June 1, 2019.
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