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S. 2978, The Credit and Debit Card Receipt Clarification Act of 2008

  • This bill has been mooted by the passage of another bill on the same subject or by other events. Check 'Related Bills' below to see if other bills on this subject have been passed into law. Mooted: 6/3/2008.
  • This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.

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S. 2978 would amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to make technical corrections to the definition of willful noncompliance with respect to violations involving the printing of an expiration date on certain credit and debit card receipts before the date of the enactment of this Act.

== Detailed Summary ==

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(Log in to edit the wikiCredit and beDebit Card Receipt Clarification Act of 2008 - Amends the firstFair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to declare that any person who printed an expiration date on any receipt provided to provide a detailed summaryconsumer cardholder at a point of sale (POS) or transaction between December 4, 2004, and the bill!)enactment of this Act, but otherwise complied with FCRA requirements for such receipt, shall not be in willful noncompliance by reason of printing such expiration date on it.
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== Status of the Legislation ==

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(Log inLatest Major Action: 5/6/2008: Referred to edit the wikiSenate committee. Status: Read twice and be the firstreferred to update the status of the bill!)Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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