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Date: 3/9/2008

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A key player in the payday loan and cash advance industry, which happens to be a US Senator, has battled efforts in the past to reform the payday loan industry. On Monday, the Senator essentially indicated that the bills in the House and Senate regarding the payday loan and cash advance industry would be killed unless both sides were able to reach an agreement. Senate Majority Leader Richard Saslaw posited that unless a compromise was reached between both the sides, then he would not be willing to issue directives to individuals to bridge the gap between the House and the Senate.

It was Saslaw, who last year, in the final hours of a session, pulled his bill that favoured payday loan providers for fear that in response that Governor Timothy Kaine would restrict the amount of interest cash advance providers were able to charge to 36%.

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Payday loan providers have proclaimed that if the interest rate would be capped at 36%, then their business would not be profitable and it would force payday loan providers to stop their operations in Virginia.

Due to the aggravation that Saslaw is experiencing because neither side is able to reach a compromise, he threatened both parties by saying that he was going to draft a bill that neither side would like if an agreement was not made soon.

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The disagreement comes from the fact that the bill the Senate proposed is favored by government official, while the bill the House proposed is favoured by the online payday loan and cash advance industry. The House wants to limit the number of payday loans that an individual can obtain to 1 at a time and allow of 5 payday loans to be obtained yearly. Moreover, the repayment period that a cash advance borrower would be afforded would be extended. Interestingly, the Senate also wants to see payday loan providers extend the repayment period. However, the Senate also wants to see that once a borrower has repaid their cash loan, they will not be permitted to receive another cash advance for 3 months. Moreover, the Senate wants to create an apparatus that would only allow individuals to maintain one cash advance at a time. The payday loan bills proposed by both the House and Senate would limit the amount of interest payday loan providers are able to charge at 36%, but both bills also allow for the payday loan providers to charge fees similarly to what is in place currently.

Both the House and Senate bills passed 97-1 and 37-2 respectively.

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