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California lawmakers passed hundreds of bills in 2024, and many become law in 2025. (Andrew Kleske/TNS) It’s almost 2025, and that means it’s nearly time for hundreds of new laws to go into ...
Here are 3 new California laws that may have a widespread impact on wallets in 2025 California Gov. Gavin Newsom was busy in 2024, signing over 1,000 bills, according to local reporters.
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Pub. L. 95-109; 91 Stat. 874, codified as 15 U.S.C. § 1692 –1692p, approved on September 20, 1977 (and as subsequently amended), is a consumer protection amendment, establishing legal protection from abusive debt collection practices, to the Consumer Credit Protection Act, as Title VIII of that Act.
The department operates under the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency. The DFPI protects California consumers and oversees the operations of state-licensed financial institutions, including banks, credit unions, debt collectors, nonbank mortgage lenders, student loan servicers, money transmitters, and others. Additionally ...
U.S. state laws on fair debt collection generally fall into two categories: laws which require persons who are collecting debts from consumers to be licensed, registered or bonded in order to collect from consumers in their states, and laws that protect consumers from specific unfair practices by debt collectors, which may include collection agencies and sometimes original creditors. [2]
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The new law takes effect July 1, 2024. AB 1013: Bars, nightclubs must carry test kits for date rape drugs About 2,400 bars and nightclubs across California must help customers test for date rape ...
Generally regarded as a subdivision of tax law, debt compliance is most often enforced through a combination of audits and legal restrictions. For example, a provision of the Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act of 1990 states that a person or organization indebted to the United States, against whom a judgment lien has been filed, is ...