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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Sept. 6, 2024, announced the availability of $6.5 billion in Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) funding and $1 billion in State Infrastructure Financing...more
What Happened: In a little-noticed development, eight states have enacted legislation that requires specific disclosures for commercial non-real estate secured financing transactions....more
The Build America Bureau (Bureau) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released on March 11, 2024, a Notice of Funding Opportunity for the new Innovative Finance and Asset Concession Grant Program (IFACGP)....more
On January 29, 2023, a Florida Magistrate Judge recommended denying the State of Florida’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction and granting CMS’s Motion to Dismiss in connection with the implementation and enforcement of its...more
California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, New York, Virginia, and Utah have enacted laws requiring consumer-like disclosures in certain commercial loans. Some of these “Commercial Financing Disclosure Laws” require...more
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is a financing model that provides low-cost, long-term funding for eligible energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. PACE is a national initiative by the U.S. Department of...more
On December 27, the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs (the Division) entered a consent order with Yellowstone Capital LLC (Yellowstone) and several related companies to resolve allegations that, in violation of the New...more
Over the past year, we have reported on the new wave of laws enacted and proposed in various states requiring consumer-like disclosures in commercial financing transactions. These state laws are often titled “Commercial...more
On March 24, Utah’s governor signed the Commercial Financing Registration and Disclosure Act (CFRDA) into law. Under the CFRDA, beginning January 1, 2023, commercial financing providers must register with the Utah Department...more
What You Need to Know •The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) has established the C-PACE program to facilitate the financing by authorized municipalities of eligible commercial renewable energy, water...more
On December 23, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law S 5470–B, which requires consumer-like disclosures for “commercial financing” transactions of $500,000 or less. New York’s commercial financial law (NYCFL)...more
Two years ago, California enacted SB 1235 (2018 Cal. Stats. ch. 1011) requiring providers of commercial financing to disclose certain information to the businesses seeking financing. The Department of Financial Protection...more
On June 30, 2020, Governor Reynolds signed into law House File 2643 (“HF 2643”) relating to various appropriations to and legal and regulatory responsibilities for state and local governmental entities. Specially related to...more
On December 30, 2019, the California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) announced two actions regarding companies offering unregulated, point-of-sale financing to California residents. In the first action, the DBO...more
Bricker & Eckler LLP congratulates Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance (GCEA) on a record-breaking year in Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing transactions. In 2019, GCEA has closed 24 PACE loans valued at nearly...more
On November 1, 2017, the Ohio Board of Building Standards (OBBS) adopted an update to the Ohio Building Code requiring the inclusion of storm shelters in the construction of educational occupancies. That update has resulted...more
There was movement last week on two California bills that we have been tracking closely and which could substantially alter the lending and brokering landscape under the California Financing Law (“CFL”)....more
Homeowners in Summit, Franklin and Lucas Counties will soon have access to low-interest loans for energy efficiency improvements through property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing. In Summit County, the City of Barberton...more
Last session, California passed California Civil Code Section 1098.6 prohibiting the creation of new transfer fees effective as of January 1, 2019, unless the fee provides a “direct benefit” to the property, as defined under...more
The California Legislature passed a number of laws last year that will have a significant impact on how public agencies — including cities and counties, special districts, schools and school districts and more — do business....more
On September 30, 2018, California’s Governor signed into law Senate Bill No. 1235, requiring consumer-like disclosures to be provided to recipients of certain business-purpose financial services products (“commercial...more
Insurance regulators in Iowa and Virginia have adopted the NAIC’s Model Rules regulating term and universal life insurance reserve financing. The stated purpose of the rules is “to establish uniform, national standards...more
A bipartisan group of four members of Congress have introduced legislation that could bring billions of dollars of new investment to state and local government to help grow and repair America’s aging infrastructure....more
The purpose of this pamphlet, part of our Public Finance Green Book Series, is to assist conduit issuers in identifying issues and setting up policies and procedures related to their tax-exempt bond programs and their...more