S. 500 the Protecting Consumers from Unreasonable Credit Rates Act of 2009
A bill to amend the Truth in Lending Act to establish a national usury rate for consumer credit transactions.
A bill to amend the Truth in Lending Act to establish a national usury rate for consumer credit transactions.
Hearing Date :2009-02-24T00:00:00
Committee :House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity
Sub Committee :
Congress Number :111
To amend chapter 1 of title 9 of United States Code with respect to arbitration.
To establish the Temporary Economic Recovery Adjustment Panel to curb excessive executive compensation at firms receiving emergency economic assistance.
A bill to amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act, to ban abusive credit practices, enhance consumer disclosures, protect underage consumers, and for other purposes.
To amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit universal defaults on credit card accounts, and for other purposes.
To protect consumers, and especially young consumers, from skyrocketing credit card debt, unfair credit card practices, and deceptive credit offers.
S. 386 was incorporated into P.L. 111-21, which was signed into law on May 20, 2009. A bill to improve enforcement of mortgage fraud, securities fraud, financial institution fraud, and other frauds related to federal assistance and relief programs, for the recovery of funds lost to these frauds, and for other purposes.
To amend title 11 of the United States Code to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems.
To provide rules for the modification or disposition of certain assets by real estate mortgage investment conduits pursuant to division A of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, and for other purposes.