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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Ability to Repay Verification Enabling Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Department of Labor from enforcing any requirement that a third-party consumer-reporting agency that serves only as a secure conduit&nbsp;for data from a state unemployment compensation agency must obtain and maintain informed consent from an individual before obtaining confidential unemployment compensation information about the individual.</p>]]></text>
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