Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the . Restoring Unfairly Impaired Credit and Protecting Consumers Act The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Effective date. Sec. 4. General Bureau rulemaking. Title I—Restoring the Impaired Credit of Victims of Predatory Activities and Unfair Consumer Reporting Practices Sec. 101. Shortens the time period that most adverse credit information stays on consumer reports. Sec. 102.
Mandates the expedited removal of fully paid or settled debt from consumer reports. Sec. 103. Imposes restrictions on the appearance of medical collections on consumer reports and requires the expedited removal of fully paid or settled medical collections from consumer reports. Sec. 104. Provides credit restoration for victims of predatory mortgage lending and servicing. Sec. 105. Provides credit relief for private education loans borrowers who were defrauded or mislead by proprietary education institution or career education programs.
Sec. 106. Establishes right for victims of financial abuse to have adverse information associated with an abuser’s fraudulent activity removed from their consumer reports. Sec. 107. Prohibits treatment of credit restoration or rehabilitation as adverse information. Title II—Expanding Access to Tools To Protect Vulnerable Consumers from Identity Theft, Fraud, or a Related Crime, and Protect Victims from Further Harm Sec. 201. Identity theft report definition. Sec. 202. Amendment to protection for files and credit records of protected consumers.
Sec. 203. Enhances fraud alert protections. Sec. 204. Amendment to security freezes for consumer reports. Sec. 205. Clarification of information to be included with agency disclosures. Sec. 206. Provides access to fraud records for victims. Sec. 207. Required Bureau to set procedures for reporting identity theft, fraud, and other related crime. Sec. 208. Establishes the right to free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services for certain consumers. Sec. 209. Ensures removal of inquiries resulting from identity theft, fraud, or other related crime from consumer reports.
Title III—Miscellaneous Sec. 301. Definitions related to days. Sec. 302. Technical correction related to risk-based pricing notices. Sec. 303. FCRA findings and purpose; voids certain contracts not in the public interest.