By: West S.B. No. 584
(In the Senate - Filed December 13, 2024; February 3, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
April 9, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
Nays 0; April 9, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the responsibility of consumer reporting agencies to
ensure compliance with certain consumer reporting laws.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 20.05, Business & Commerce Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
(c-1) A consumer reporting agency that prepares a consumer
report using information obtained from another consumer reporting
agency or a third party shall ensure that the information obtained
is compiled and furnished by the agency in a consumer report in a
manner that complies with this section.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a consumer report furnished on or after the effective date of
this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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