Connecticut-2012-HB05416-Introduced


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 5416*
*February Session, 2012*		LCO No. 1629
		01629_______BA_
Referred to Committee on Banks
Introduced by:
(BA)

AN ACT CONCERNING CREDIT CARD APPLICATIONS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) For purposes of this section, "prefilled application" means an application containing any personal identifying information, as defined in section 53a-129a of the general statutes.

(b) No creditor or card issuer, as such terms are defined in 15 USC 1602, shall send by mail, facsimile machine, electronic mail or other means of transmission a prefilled application for a credit card, as defined in 15 USC 1602, to any resident of this state.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To reduce identity theft by preventing creditors and card issuers from sending prefilled credit card applications to residents of this state.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]