[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2328 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2328

 To amend the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to preclude law firms 
  and licensed attorneys from the definition of a debt collector when 
            taking certain actions, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 2014

Mr. Toomey (for himself and Mr. Warner) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
                           and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to preclude law firms 
  and licensed attorneys from the definition of a debt collector when 
            taking certain actions, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Debt Collection Practices 
Technical Clarification Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. LEGAL PROCEEDING EXCEPTION.

    (a) In General.--Section 803(6) of the Fair Debt Collection 
Practices Act (15 U.S.C. 1692a(6)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraph (F) as subparagraph (G); 
        and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following:
                    ``(F) any law firm or licensed attorney--
                            ``(i) serving, filing, or conveying formal 
                        legal pleadings, discovery requests, or other 
                        documents pursuant to the applicable rules of 
                        civil procedure; or
                            ``(ii) communicating in, or at the 
                        direction of, a court of law or in depositions 
                        or settlement conferences, in connection with a 
                        pending legal action to collect a debt on 
                        behalf of a client; and''.
    (b) Rule of Construction.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
shall not exempt, nor shall they be construed to exempt, any law firm 
or licensed attorney engaged in any activity other than those 
activities specifically described in the amendments from being subject 
to any other applicable provision of the Fair Debt Collection Practices 
Act.
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