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Bill Title: 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

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-03-02 - First Reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary [SB0211 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2015-SB0211-Amended.pdf

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