Bill Text: NY S01896 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes tenant screening companies, associations or agencies within the fair credit reporting act relating to consumer reports of information bearing on a consumer's credit worthiness.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S01896 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S01896-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1896
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 14, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. OPPENHEIMER, DIAZ, KRUEGER, PARKER -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to applying the
fair credit reporting act to tenant screening companies
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section 380-a of the general business
2 law, as added by chapter 867 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (e) The term "consumer reporting agency" means any person who, for
5 monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly
6 engages in whole or in part in the practice of assembling or evaluating
7 consumer credit information or other information on consumers for the
8 purpose of furnishing consumer reports or investigative consumer reports
9 to third parties AND SHALL INCLUDE ANY TENANT SCREENING COMPANY, ASSOCI-
10 ATION OR AGENCY.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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