To create protections for depository institutions that provide financial services to industrial hemp legitimate businesses, and for other purposes.

United States115th CongressHR-4711House of Representatives
Updated: Dec 21, 2017

Summary

Industrial Hemp Banking Act This bill prohibits a federal banking regulator from: (1) terminating or limiting the deposit insurance or share insurance of a depository institution solely because the institution provides financial services to a legitimate industrial hemp business; (2) prohibiting or otherwise discouraging a depository institution from offering financial services to such a business; (3) recommending, incentivizing, or encouraging a depository institution not to offer financial services to an account holder solely because the account holder is affiliated with such a business; or (4) taking any adverse or corrective supervisory action on a loan made to a person solely because the person either owns such a business or owns real estate or equipment leased to such a business. As specified by the bill, a depository institution shall not, under federal law, be liable or subject to forfeiture for providing financial services to a legitimate industrial hemp business.

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  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

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