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Removing fees for security freezes and disclosures of consumer credit reports
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What they voted on
Add a proposed change (amendment) to the bill
Official wording: S.2455, Question on adoption of the amendment Creem amendment #5
Who filed S.2455
Sponsor Senate Committee on Ways and Means
Committees often rewrite bills. The legislators who filed the original versions are listed on malegislature.gov.
Amendment adopted
Every member's vote
Voted yes (38)
- Michael J. Barrett Third Middlesex · Democrat
- Joseph A. Boncore First Suffolk and Middlesex · Democrat
- Michael D. Brady Second Plymouth and Bristol · Democrat
- William N. Brownsberger Second Suffolk and Middlesex · Democrat
- Harriette L. Chandler First Worcester · Democrat
- Sonia Chang-Diaz Second Suffolk · Democrat
- Cynthia Stone Creem First Middlesex and Norfolk · Democrat
- Brendan P. Crighton Third Essex · Democrat
- Julian Cyr Cape and Islands · Democrat
- Viriato M. deMacedo Plymouth and Barnstable · Republican
- Sal N. DiDomenico Middlesex and Suffolk · Democrat
- James B. Eldridge Middlesex and Worcester · Democrat
- Ryan C. Fattman Worcester and Norfolk · Republican
- Paul R. Feeney Bristol and Norfolk · Democrat
- Cindy F. Friedman Fourth Middlesex · Democrat
- Anne M. Gobi Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex · Democrat
- Adam G. Hinds Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden · Democrat
- Donald F. Humason, Jr. Second Hampden and Hampshire · Republican
- Kathleen O'Connor Ives First Essex · Democrat
- Patricia D. Jehlen Second Middlesex · Democrat
- John F. Keenan Norfolk and Plymouth · Democrat
- Barbara A. L'Italien Second Essex and Middlesex · Democrat
- Eric P. Lesser First Hampden and Hampshire · Democrat
- Jason M. Lewis Fifth Middlesex · Democrat
- Joan B. Lovely Second Essex · Democrat
- Mark C. Montigny Second Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- Michael O. Moore Second Worcester · Democrat
- Patrick M. O'Connor Plymouth and Norfolk · Republican
- Marc R. Pacheco First Plymouth and Bristol · Democrat
- Michael J. Rodrigues First Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- Stanley C. Rosenberg Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester · Democrat
- Richard J. Ross Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex · Republican
- Michael F. Rush Norfolk and Suffolk · Democrat
- Karen E. Spilka Second Middlesex and Norfolk · Democrat
- Bruce E. Tarr First Essex and Middlesex · Republican
- Walter F. Timilty Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- Dean A. Tran Worcester and Middlesex · Republican
- James T. Welch Hampden · Democrat
What it means
Makes credit report security freezes free: consumer reporting agencies may not charge to place, lift or remove a freeze. Freezes must be placed within 1 business day of an online or phone request (3 business days by mail) and lifted within 15 minutes of an online or phone request, and parents or guardians can freeze the files of children under 16 and people under guardianship. A business would need a consumer's consent and must give its reason before pulling a credit report. After a data breach involving Social Security numbers, the breached company must offer at least 2 years of free credit monitoring (at least 5 years if a credit reporting agency is breached), and breach notices must explain how to get a police report and a freeze; most of the act takes effect 90 days after passage.
Source: official text and history of S.2455 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.
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