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                                                     SENATE BILL 6176

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1994 Regular Session

By Senators L. Smith, Nelson, Oke, Winsley, Hochstatter, Moyer, Anderson and Roach

Read first time 01/17/94.  Referred to Committee on Labor & Commerce.

Requiring a creditor to tell a debtor which collection agency a debt was assigned to.

          AN ACT Relating to collection agencies; and adding a new section to chapter 19.16 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 19.16 RCW to read as follows:

          When a creditor cannot collect a debt and assigns a debt to a collection agency, the creditor has a duty to inform the debtor that the debt has been assigned, and give the debtor the name of the collection agency that has been assigned the debt.

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