Indiana Senate Bill 211 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: Engrossed on February 16 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-02 - First Reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Debt collection. Amends the statute concerning deceptive consumer sales as follows: (1) Defines the term "debt buyer". (2) Specifies that a debt buyer is a debt collector for purposes of the statute. (3) Requires a debt collector to make certain disclosures to an Indiana debtor. (4) Provides that the failure to make the required disclosures constitutes a deceptive act under the statute. (5) Specifies that the attorney general's authority to recover a civil penalty not exceeding $1,000 for knowing violations of the provisions concerning debt collection practices applies to each violation of the provisions per consumer, subject to a cap

Debt collection. Amends the statute concerning deceptive consumer sales as follows: (1) Defines the term "debt buyer". (2) Specifies that a debt buyer is a debt collector for purposes of the statute. (3) Requires a debt collector to make certain disclosures to an Indiana debtor. (4) Provides that the failure to make the required disclosures constitutes a deceptive act under the statute. (5) Specifies that the attorney general's authority to recover a civil penalty not exceeding $1,000 for knowing violations of the provisions concerning debt collection practices applies to each violation of the provisions per consumer, subject to a cap

Sen. Patricia Miller [R]

Sen. James Buck [R]

Sen. Greg Taylor [D]

Rep. David Frizzell [R]

2015-02-05 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 47 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2015-01-26 - Senate - Senate Committee on Civil Law - Committee Vote (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-02	House	First Reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2015-02-16	Senate	Referred to the House
2015-02-05	Senate	Representative Frizzell added as sponsor
2015-02-05	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 94: yeas 47, nays 1
2015-01-29	Senate	Senator Taylor added as coauthor
2015-01-29	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2015-01-27	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2015-01-26	Senate	Senator Buck added as second author
2015-01-06	Senate	First Reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law
2015-01-06	Senate	Authored by Senator Miller Patricia

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/211/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/b/e/5/ebe5d24b/SB0211.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/4/2/c/442cd522/SB0211.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/0/9/0/c090b0ff/SB0211.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/f/4/0/ef402a79/SB0211.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/1/d/c/b1dc8a59/SB0211.94.pdf