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Protecting Consumers from Abusive Mortgage Leads Act

H.R. 4198 · 118th Congress · Jun 16, 2023 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend section 604(c) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act to address the treatment of pre-screening report requests, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Protecting Consumers from Abusive Mortgage Leads Act”.

Sec. 2 Treatment of pre-screening report requests

Section 604(c) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681b) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(4) Treatment of pre-screening report requests—If a person requests a report from a consumer reporting agency in connection with a credit transaction involving an extension of credit secured by real estate, such agency may not, solely on the basis of such request, furnish a report to a third party unless such third party has submitted documentation to such agency certifying that such third party has the consumer’s consent or has a current relationship, relating to credit, servicing or other financial services, with such consumer.”