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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="14-1213" title_number="14" title_name="Miscellaneous Consumer Protection Provisions" subtitle_number="12" subtitle_name="Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section, “medical debt” means debt owed by a consumer to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A person whose primary business is providing medical services, products, or devices; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The person’s agent or assignee for the provision of medical services, products, or devices.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Medical debt” includes medical bills that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Are not past due; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Have already been paid.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Medical debt” does not include debt charged to a credit card unless the credit card is issued under an open–end or closed–end credit plan offered solely for the payment of health care services.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A consumer reporting agency may not:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Make, create, or furnish any consumer report containing, incorporating, or reflecting:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Any adverse information that the consumer reporting agency knows or should know relates to medical debt incurred by the consumer; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Any collection action against a consumer to collect medical debt; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Maintain in a file on a consumer any information relating to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Medical debt incurred by the consumer; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Any collection action against the consumer to collect medical debt.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The prohibitions established under paragraph (1) of this subsection apply regardless of when medical debt was incurred by a consumer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person may not use medical debt information included in a consumer report to make a determination regarding the creditworthiness of the consumer.</text>
  </level>
</section>
