Florida Senate Bill 336 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Commerce and Tourism
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Requiring that debt settlement services be provided pursuant to a debt settlement plan; requiring a debt settlement provider to make certain disclosures to the debtor before a debtor consents to payment; prohibiting a debt settlement provider from making certain misrepresentations to a debtor; providing certain conditions that a debt settlement provider must meet before receiving payment; providing that a debtor may withdraw any account funds placed with a debt settlement provider at any time without penalty; extending auditing and insurance requirements to persons providing debt settlement services; authorizing a debt settlement provider to hold funds in order to allow the funds to accumulate, etc.

Debt Settlement Services

Senate Banking and Insurance Committee

Sen. Don Gaetz [R]

Sen. Garrett Richter [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Commerce and Tourism
2012-01-24		CS by Banking and Insurance read 1st time -SJ 269
2012-01-24		Now in Commerce and Tourism -SJ 264
2012-01-23		Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2012-01-19		CS by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 -SJ 264
2012-01-13		On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 01/19/12, 8:00 am, 412 Knott Building
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 33
2011-11-22		On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 12/07/11, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
2011-10-18		Referred to Banking and Insurance; Commerce and Tourism; Budget -SJ 33
2011-09-21		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
817	801		Amended Code	See Bill Text
817	802		Amended Code	See Bill Text
817	803		Amended Code	See Bill Text
817	804		Amended Code	See Bill Text
817	805		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/336
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0336/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0336/BillText/c1/HTML