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2025 California Code
Financial Code - FIN
DIVISION 1 - FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER 5 - Examinations and Reports-Banking
ARTICLE 2 - Reports
Section 521.

Universal Citation:
CA Fin Code § 521 (2025)
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521. (a) A bank or credit union subject to the examination authority of the commissioner shall report annually, on or before March 1, to the commissioner on the amount of revenue earned from overdraft fees and nonsufficient funds fees collected in the most recently completed calendar year and the percentage of that revenue as a proportion of the net income of the bank or credit union.

(b) (1) The commissioner shall publish, pursuant to paragraph (2), in a report the data for each bank or credit union required by subdivision (a) and make the report available on the department’s internet website.

(2) (A) The commissioner shall publish the first report required by this subdivision on or before March 31, 2023, covering data from the 2022 calendar year.

(B) In a calendar year beginning on or after January 1, 2024, the commissioner shall publish the report required by this subdivision on or before March 31 covering data from the most recently completed calendar year.

(c) As used in this section:

(1) “Nonsufficient funds fees” means fees resulting from the initiation of a transaction that exceeds the customer’s account balance if the customer’s bank or credit union declines to make the payment.

(2) “Overdraft fees” means fees resulting from the processing of a debit transaction that exceeds a customer’s account balance.

(Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 847, Sec. 1. (SB 1415) Effective January 1, 2023.)

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