Bill Text: TX SB2127 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to limitations on the information reported by consumer reporting agencies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-15 - Left pending in committee [SB2127 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2127-Engrossed.html
| By: Taylor of Galveston | S.B. No. 2127 | |
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| relating to limitations on the information reported by consumer | ||
| reporting agencies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 20.05, Business & Commerce Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a consumer | ||
| reporting agency may not furnish a consumer report containing | ||
| information related to: | ||
| (1) a case under Title 11 of the United States Code or | ||
| under the federal Bankruptcy Act in which the date of entry of the | ||
| order for relief or the date of adjudication predates the consumer | ||
| report by more than 10 years; | ||
| (2) a suit or judgment in which the date of entry | ||
| predates the consumer report by more than seven years or the | ||
| governing statute of limitations, whichever is longer; | ||
| (3) a tax lien in which the date of payment predates | ||
| the consumer report by more than seven years; | ||
| (4) a record of arrest, indictment, or conviction of a | ||
| crime in which the date of disposition, release, or parole predates | ||
| the consumer report by more than seven years; [ |
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| (5) a collection account with a medical industry code, | ||
| if the consumer was covered by a health benefit plan at the time of | ||
| the event giving rise to the collection and the collection is for an | ||
| outstanding balance, after copayments, deductibles, and | ||
| coinsurance, owed to an emergency care provider or a facility-based | ||
| provider for an out-of-network benefit claim; or | ||
| (6) another item or event that predates the consumer | ||
| report by more than seven years. | ||
| (d) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Emergency care provider" means a physician, | ||
| health care practitioner, facility, or other health care provider | ||
| who provides emergency care. | ||
| (2) "Facility" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 324.001, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (3) "Facility-based provider" means a physician, | ||
| health care practitioner, or other health care provider who | ||
| provides health care or medical services to patients of a facility. | ||
| (4) "Health care practitioner" means an individual who | ||
| is licensed to provide health care services. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
