assembly Bill A3877

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Enacts the "consumer credit fairness act"

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Jan 30, 2015 enacting clause stricken
Jan 27, 2015 referred to judiciary

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A3877 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Amd §§213, 3012, 3215, R3016 & R3211, add §§214-f, 306-d & 7515, CPLR
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A2678
2017-2018: A1752
2019-2020: A6909, A10795
2021-2022: A2382

A3877 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "consumer credit fairness act"; establishes a 3 year statute of limitations for commencement of a cause of action arising out of a consumer credit transaction where the defendant is a purchaser, borrower or debtor; establishes a notice of lawsuit which must be mailed to the defendant in such a cause of action; establishes certain requirements for the complaint in such an action (view more) provides for arbitration of such actions; requires debt collectors to send consumers a written notice of their rights under state law along with their initial debt collection correspondence; such notice would contain information such as who and when a principal creditor may contact a debtor about the debt owed as well as the fact that a principal creditor cannot disclose information affecting a consumer debtor's reputation for creditworthiness if the principal creditor knows or has reason to know such information is false; applies to consumer rather than commercial debts.

A3877 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  3877

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, JAFFEE, TITONE, COLTON, GALEF, ABINAN-
  TI, ZEBROWSKI, O'DONNELL, CRESPO, ROSENTHAL, SCARBOROUGH, FAHY, ROBIN-
  SON, PEOPLES-STOKES, MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,
  COOK, CYMBROWITZ, DAVILA, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, MARKEY, OTIS, PERRY, SCHI-
  MEL, SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to consum-
  er credit transactions

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
the "consumer credit fairness act".
  S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 213 of the civil practice law and rules,
as  amended  by  chapter  709 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as
follows:
  2. an action upon a contractual obligation or  liability,  express  or
implied,  except  as  provided  in section two hundred thirteen-a OR TWO
HUNDRED FOURTEEN-F of this article or article 2 of the  uniform  commer-
cial code or article 36-B of the general business law;
  S  3.  The  civil  practice  law  and rules is amended by adding a new
section 214-f to read as follows:
  S 214-F. CERTAIN ACTIONS ARISING OUT OF CONSUMER  CREDIT  TRANSACTIONS
TO  BE COMMENCED WITHIN THREE YEARS. AN ACTION ARISING OUT OF A CONSUMER
CREDIT TRANSACTION WHERE A PURCHASER, BORROWER OR DEBTOR IS A  DEFENDANT
MUST  BE COMMENCED WITHIN THREE YEARS, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SECTION TWO
HUNDRED THIRTEEN-A OF THIS ARTICLE OR ARTICLE 2 OF THE  UNIFORM  COMMER-
CIAL  CODE  OR ARTICLE 36-B OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW. WHEN THE PERIOD
WITHIN WHICH AN ACTION MAY BE COMMENCED UNDER THIS SECTION HAS  EXPIRED,
THE RIGHT TO COLLECT CONSUMER CREDIT DEBT IS EXTINGUISHED AS WELL AS THE
REMEDY.
  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION, "THE RIGHT TO COLLECT CONSUMER CREDIT
DEBT" SHALL MEAN ANY ATTEMPTS BY THE CREDITOR, THIRD PARTY PURCHASER, OR

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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