A 1752 New York Assembly · 2017 Regular Session

Enacts the "consumer credit fairness act"

Summary
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.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
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Jan 2017
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Governor
Introduced Jan 13, 2017 Last action Jan 3, 2018
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May 9, 2017
Legislature · Referred to committee
REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES
Jan 13, 2017
Legislature · Referred to committee
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
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