[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5491 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5491

To require the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection 
to verify the accuracy of consumer complaint information before making 
               such information available to the public.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2016

 Mr. Mulvaney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection 
to verify the accuracy of consumer complaint information before making 
               such information available to the public.

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

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT TO VERIFY INFORMATION IN THE COMPLAINT DATABASE 
              BEFORE IT MAY BE RELEASED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

    Section 1013(b)(3)(A) of the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 
2010 (12 U.S.C. 5493(b)(3)(A)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: ``The Director may not make any information about a consumer 
complaint in such database available to the public without first 
verifying the accuracy of all facts alleged in such complaint.''.
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