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HB 359 Original 2021 Regular Session Hollis
Abstract: Allows the commissioner of the Office of Financial Institutions and the state attorney
general to enforce provisions of solicitation law against violators.
Present law prohibits a solicitor from using a lender's name, trade name, service mark, or trademark
in a solicitation for the offering of services or products to a consumer unless certain conditions are
met.
Proposed law retains present law.
Proposed law allows the commissioner of the Office of Financial Institutions to use the enforcement
powers granted to him in present law against a violating solicitor.
Proposed law provides that a violation of present law is considered a violation of the false
advertising provisions of present law and allows the state attorney general to enforce the appropriate
penalties provided in present law.
(Adds R.S. 6:412.1(I) and (J))