Florida House Bill 67 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Business and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires that debt management & credit counseling services be provided pursuant to debt settlement plan; requires credit counseling agency to make certain disclosures to debtor before debtor consents to payment; prohibits credit counseling agency from making certain misrepresentations to debtor; provides certain conditions that credit counseling agency must meet before receiving payment; provides that debtor may withdraw any account funds placed with credit counseling agency at any time without penalty; authorizes credit counseling agency to hold funds in order to allow funds to accumulate.

Credit Counseling Services

Rep. Fredrick Costello [R]

Rep. Elizabeth Porter [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Business and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
2012-01-10		Introduced -HJ 12
2011-09-15		Referred to Business and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee; Economic Affairs Committee -HJ 12
2011-08-03		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
817	801		Amended Code	See Bill Text
817	802		Amended Code	See Bill Text
817	805		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/67
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0067/BillText/Filed/HTML