With many state legislatures in full gear this time of the year, credit unions across the country reported they are pushing for new laws ranging from full blown rewrites of statutes to bills dealing with new threats such as patent trolls.

"We had an extremely successful session," Jared Ross, senior vice president for association services at the League of Southeastern Credit Unions and Affiliates, said as he looked back at the session of the Florida state legislature.

Ross cited legislation that would require the state Office of Financial Regulation to share information with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta. The office had not been providing the home loan bank with the data needed to give Florida's state chartered credit unions access to the bank's secondary mortgage market program.

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