[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1594 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1594

To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to exclude certain evictions and 
 information relating to such evictions from consumer reports, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2021

   Mr. Stanton (for himself, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Sires, Mr. Thompson of 
    Mississippi, Ms. Norton, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Carson, Ms. Moore of 
    Wisconsin, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. 
 Blumenauer, and Mrs. Hayes) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to exclude certain evictions and 
 information relating to such evictions from consumer reports, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``COVID-19 Eviction Consumer Report 
Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO CERTAIN EVICTIONS FROM 
              CONSUMER REPORTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 605(a) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act 
(15 U.S.C. 1681c(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(9) An eviction, or any information related to an 
        eviction or a proceeding seeking eviction, of a consumer from a 
        rental dwelling that occurred during the period beginning March 
        13, 2020, and ending 120 days after the date on which the 
        national emergency concerning the novel coronavirus disease 
        (COVID-19) outbreak declared by the President on March 13, 
        2020, under the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et 
        seq.) terminates.''.
    (b) Applicability.--This Act and the amendments made by this Act 
shall apply to any consumer report (as defined in section 603 of the 
Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a)) issued on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
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