I can sympathize but it's odd that the article is calling for a federal law. . Shows a complete lack of research and understanding of the "United States" and t

I can sympathize but it's odd that the article is calling for a federal law. . Shows a complete lack of research and understanding of the "United States" and the roles of the federal and state governments, or just a clear a bias toward federalizing everything. The law that governs the bank safe deposit boxes is state law. This is pure personal proprety law of bailment and has nothing to do with interstate commerce or banking. I mean you can't get much more local than keeping your personal items in a box. There's no reason to have federal law apply. Federal government does interstate commerce, national security, and a few other things relating to the country as a whole and that's it. Having federal law govern safe deposit for boxes is like saying the federal government should be policing whether parking attendendanta bang up or rob the car you leave them or restaurants should be federally liable for hat and coat checks. State law has always governed the responsibilities of the person who takes care of something you leave them. it's property law 101. The federal government has no business and no jurisdiction being involved in enforcing bailment responsibiliies or rewriting contracts. It's not lack of interest by the feds it's lack of jurisdiction. There's no interstate commerce going on in a safe deposit box. If the feds need to step in here we might as well get rid of state laws and states entirely.