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Long Title
AN ACT AMENDING ACT NO. 2031, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS LAW, BY REQUIRING THE DRAWER OF THE CHECK TO LEGIBLY PRINT HIS/HER NAME BEFORE SIGNING THE SAME
Date filed
March 4, 2009
Scope
Legislative History
| House Bill/Resolution NO. HB06094 |
| FULL TITLE : AN ACT AMENDING ACT NO. 2031, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS LAW, BY REQUIRING THE DRAWER OF THE CHECK TO LEGIBLY PRINT HIS/HER NAME BEFORE SIGNING THE SAME |
| ABSTRACT : Seeks to address the problem whereby victims of pyramid scams have difficulty in filing cases for bouncing checks because they do not know who are the signatories/drawers of these checks especially in cases of corporations, thus the filing of this measure which requires the signatories/drawers of the checks to legibly print their names before signing the checks. |
| PRINCIPAL AUTHOR/S : RODRIGUEZ, RUFUS B. |
| DATE FILED : 2009-03-04 |
| SIGNIFICANCE: NATIONAL |
| CO-AUTHORS (Journal Entries) : |
| 1. Codilla (058 ) |
| ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES |
| REFERRAL TO THE COMMITTEE ON REVISION OF LAWS ON 2009-03-05 |
Abstract
Seeks to address the problem whereby victims of pyramid scams have difficulty in filing cases for bouncing checks because they do not know who are the signatories/drawers of these checks especially in cases of corporations, thus the filing of this measure which requires the signatories/drawers of the checks to legibly print their names before signing the checks.
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