HB494: AN ACT relating to student education loan servicing.

Legislative Summary

Establish Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 286 and create sections thereof to make findings; define terms; establish licensing requirements for certain student education loan servicers; establish records requirements for student education loan servicers; require annual and other reports by student education loan servicers; require student education loan servicers to pay an annual assessment fee; prohibit student education loan servicers from engaging in abusive acts and practices and prohibit other conduct; require student education loan servicers to comply with federal and state law; permit the commissioner to conduct examinations and investigations of student education loan servicers; establish requirements for conditioning, denying, suspending, or revoking the license of a student education loan servicers; establish regulatory provisions relating to emergency orders, administrative complaints, and appeals; establish penalties; amend KRS 452.005 to conform; state that provisions of the Act shall be severable; provide that Act may be cited as the Student Education Loan Servicing, Licensing, and Protection Act of 2022.