H.R.4538 - Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2010

To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require the inclusion of credit scores with free annual credit reports provided to consumers, and for other purposes. view all titles (2)

All Bill Titles

  • Official: To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require the inclusion of credit scores with free annual credit reports provided to consumers, and for other purposes. as introduced.
  • Short: Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2010 as introduced.

This Bill currently has no wiki content. If you would like to create a wiki entry for this bill, please Login, and then select the wiki tab to create it.

Bill's Views

  • Today: 5
  • Past Seven Days: 23
  • All-Time: 1,309
 
Introduced
 
House
Passes
 
Senate
Passes
 
President
Signs
 

 
01/26/10
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Official Summary

1/27/2010--Introduced.Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2010 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require consumer reporting agencies to disclose any information in the consumer's file concerning credit scores or other related risk scores or predictors when the consumer request

Official Summary

1/27/2010--Introduced.Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2010 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require consumer reporting agencies to disclose any information in the consumer's file concerning credit scores or other related risk scores or predictors when the consumer requests a free annual disclosure (credit report). Requires all consumer reporting agencies to maintain information in the consumer's file concerning such scores or predictors for at least one year from the date on which such information is placed in the file. Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on bankruptcy risk scores used by consumer reporting agencies, including an analysis of:
(1) the factors used to determine such scores;
(2) how bankruptcy risk scores impact the ability of consumers to receive loans; and
(3) actions that consumers can take to improve such scores.

...Read the Rest

FEED

Recent News Coverage

Hmmmm, no news coverage found for this bill at this time. This means that this this bill has not yet been mentioned on a publicly-searchable news website by either its official number (for example, "H.R. 3200") or title (for example, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"). As soon as that changes, our daily automated search across the Web will catch it and include it here. If this bill is of interest to you, you can write a letter to the editor referring to this bill by name, and if your letter is published on the Web, a link back your letter will appear here within about one day. Or, if you know of a news article about this bill to display here, email us the web address of this page and the web address of your suggested news article: Our editorial team will post relevant links as quickly as possible. Thanks for helping to build public knowledge about Congress.

FEED

Recent Blog Coverage

View All (12)  |  View Top Rated

12/16/10
Myrick named Vice Chair of Energy and Commerce Committee

HR 4538 passed by a vote of 277-148. Share. Related posts: No surprise: Myrick votes against House health care bill; Myrick health care amendment fails in committee; Myrick thanks Senators for willingness to give up health care.

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
02/18/10
Fair Credit Reporting Act

Cohen has introduced H.R. 4538, a bill which would amend the FCRA to require that the credit bureaus provide consumers with their credit scores for free with their annual free credit reports. As I have reported on many times previously, ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
02/05/10
Digest - Memphis Daily News - Business, Government, Politics, News ...

The Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2010, or H.R. 4538, would amend the current Fair Credit Reporting Act and require the inclusion of credit scores with free annual credit reports for consumers. In addition, the legislation would ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate




Users supporting H.R.4538 (2) are also:

Supporting Bill


Opposing Bill





Vote on This Bill

100% Users Support Bill

2 in favor / 0 opposed
 

Send Your Rep a Letter

about this bill Support Oppose Tracking
Track with MyOC
Save to Notebook Make A Bill Widget

Top-Rated Comments

OpenCongress is a free and open-source project of the Participatory Politics Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to increase civic engagement. The non-profit Sunlight Foundation is the Founding and Primary Supporter of OpenCongress.