Fair Medical Debt Reporting Act

United States116th CongressHR-8536House of Representatives
Updated: Oct 6, 2020

Summary

Fair Medical Debt Reporting Act This bill prohibits credit reporting agencies from including certain medical debt on a consumer report. Specifically, agencies may not include on a report medical debt that has not been placed for collection, medical debt that was placed for collection within a year prior to the report, or medical debt fully paid or settled within a certain period of time. Before a person provides information regarding a consumer's medical debt to a credit reporting agency, that person must notify the consumer of the restrictions regarding the reporting of medical debt and provide the consumer with details regarding the medical debt.

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Timeline

  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

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