Oklahoma 2024 2024 Regular Session

Oklahoma House Bill HB1254 Amended / Bill

Filed 03/04/2024

                     
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION 
 
STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024) 
 
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE 
FOR 
HOUSE BILL NO. 1254 	By: McCall 
 
 
 
 
 
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE 
 
An Act relating to consumer credit; prohibiting 
release of certain information rel ated to credit to 
third parties without consent; providing for civil 
penalty; providing for enforcement of penalty; 
providing for codification; and declaring an 
emergency. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLA HOMA: 
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW    A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3-412 of Title 14A, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
A.  If a person requests a report from a con sumer reporting 
agency in connection with a credit transaction involving any 
extension of credit, such agency may not, solely on the basis of 
such request, furnish a report to a third party unless s uch third 
party has the consumer 's consent or has a current relationship,   
 
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relating to credit, servicing, or other financial ser vices, with 
such consumer. 
B.  Any violation of the provisions of subsection A of this 
section shall result in a civil penalty of Ten Thousand Dollars 
($10,000.00) which shall be paid to t he person or persons ad versely 
affected by the violation. If the credit application is made 
jointly by two persons with respect to a lend ing transaction in 
which both persons would be liable for a debt, then the c ivil 
penalty shall be paid to each person for a total of Twenty Thousand 
Dollars ($20,000.00). 
C.  The Attorney General shall have the dut y to enforce the 
provisions of this section. 
SECTION 2.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation 
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is her eby 
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and 
be in full force from and after its passage a nd approval. 
 
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON RULES, dated 03/04/2024 - DO PASS, 
As Amended.