Bill Title: Enacts the "consumer credit fairness act"; establishes a 3 year statute of limitations for commencement of a cause of action arising out of a consumer credit transaction where the defendant is a purchaser, borrower or debtor; establishes a notice of lawsuit which must be mailed to the defendant in such a cause of action; establishes certain requirements for the complaint in such an action; provides for arbitration of such actions; requires debt collectors to send consumers a written notice of their rights under state law along with their initial debt collection correspondence; such notice would contain information such as who and when a principal creditor may contact a debtor about the debt owed as well as the fact that a principal creditor cannot disclose information affecting a consumer debtor's reputation for creditworthiness if the principal creditor knows or has reason to know such information is false; applies to consumer rather than commercial debts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-06 - AMENDED BY RESTORING TO PREVIOUS PRINT 677A [S00677 Detail]

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Bill Drafts

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Introduced	2011-05-24	HTML/Text	Link	View
Amended	1969-12-31	HTML/Text	Link	View
Amended	1969-12-31	HTML/Text	Link	View

Amendments

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