[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
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[H.R. 5001 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 523
116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5001

                          [Report No. 116-638]

  To amend the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to clarify that the 
 definition of a debt collector includes, in all cases, a person in a 
business the principal purpose of which is the enforcement of security 
                               interests.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 8, 2019

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

                           December 10, 2020

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
    [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on 
                           November 8, 2019]


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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to clarify that the 
 definition of a debt collector includes, in all cases, a person in a 
business the principal purpose of which is the enforcement of security 
                               interests.


 


    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 ``Non-Judicial Foreclosure Debt 
Collection Clarification Act''.

SEC. 2. ENFORCEMENT OF SECURITY INTERESTS.

     Section 803(6) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 
U.S.C. 1692a(6)) is amended by striking ``For the purpose of section 
808(6), such term also includes any person who uses any instrumentality 
of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal 
purpose of which is the enforcement of security interests.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 523

116th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 5001

                          [Report No. 116-638]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

  To amend the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to clarify that the 
 definition of a debt collector includes, in all cases, a person in a 
business the principal purpose of which is the enforcement of security 
                               interests.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           December 10, 2020

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed