Universal Default Prohibition Act of 2007
Official title: To amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit universal defaults on credit card accounts, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Universal Default Prohibition Act of 2007 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit a creditor from: (1) using any adverse information concerning any consumer, including any in a consumer report or any change in the consumer's credit score, as the basis for increasing any annual percentage rate of interest for a credit card account of the consumer's under an open end consumer credit plan; or (2) removing or increasing any introductory annual percentage rate of interest for that account, for reasons other than actions or omissions of the consumer directly related to the account.
Requires such limitation on the use of adverse information to be clearly and conspicuously described to the consumer by the credit card issuer.
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