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S. 656 119th Congress Senate

Fair Credit for American Hostages Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit consumer reporting agencies from furnishing consumer reports containing adverse items of information … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit consumer reporting agencies from furnishing consumer reports containing adverse items of information about a consumer that resulted from that consumer being unlawfully or wrongfully detained abroad or held hostage abroad.

Introduced: February 20, 2025 Introduced by: Christopher A. Coons Democratic · Delaware See on congress.gov
Finance and Financial Sector Consumer affairsConsumer creditDetention of personsRight of privacy
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Became law
Feb 20, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Feb 20, 2025
Introduced in Senate
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What's happening now February 20, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Lobbying activity 5

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

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    for TRANS UNION LLC · District of Columbia · 1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)

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 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 2 Republican 4
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Collins, Susan M.
Maine · Feb 24, 2025
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Lummis, Cynthia M.
Wyoming · Feb 20, 2025
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Rounds, Mike
South Dakota · Feb 20, 2025
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Tillis, Thomas
North Carolina · Feb 20, 2025
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Van Hollen, Chris
Maryland · Feb 20, 2025
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Wyden, Ron
Oregon · Feb 20, 2025
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 656: Fair Credit for American Hostages Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-656/
MLA
"S. 656: Fair Credit for American Hostages Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-656/.
Bluebook (legal)
S. 656, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-656/.
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[S. 656: Fair Credit for American Hostages Act of 2025](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-656/)
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