Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to prohibit bank holding companies and their subsidiaries from selling insurance as principals, agents or brokers, except: (1) where the insurance secures an extension of credit in the event of death, disability, or the involuntary unemployment of the debtor; (2) where the insurance is declining balance credit property insurance, sold by a subsidiary finance company, to protect against loss or damage to collateral securing an extension of credit of $10,000 or less (adjusted by the Consumer Price Index with 1980 as the base year); (3) any insurance agency activity in a community of less than 5,000 or which has inadequate insurance agency facilities; (4) any insurance agency activity lawfully engaged in by a bank holding company on June 12, 1980; (5) certain supervisory activity over agents who sell insurance covering a holding company's property and employees; and (6) any insurance agency activity, except the sale of unauthorized life insurance or annuities, conducted by a bank holding company or its subsidiary which has less than $50,000,000 in total assets.
Referred to Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision, Regulation and Insurance.
Introduced in Senate
Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Banking.
Committee on Banking requested executive comment from Federal Reserve System; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Committee on Banking received executive comment from Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Committee on Banking received executive comment from Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Unfavorable.
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