IIB 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 435 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 26, 2018 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs 
AN ACT 
To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to clarify Federal 
law with respect to reporting certain positive consumer 
credit information to consumer reporting agencies, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘The Credit Access and 
Inclusion Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. POSITIVE CREDIT REPORTING PERMITTED. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 623 of the Fair Credit 
Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681s–2) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(f) FULL-FILE CREDIT REPORTING.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the limitation in 
paragraph (2) and notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, a person or the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development may furnish to a consumer 
reporting agency information relating to the per-
formance of a consumer in making payments— 
‘‘(A) under a lease agreement with respect 
to a dwelling, including such a lease in which 
the Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment provides subsidized payments for occu-
pancy in a dwelling; or 
‘‘(B) pursuant to a contract for a utility or 
telecommunications service. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—Information about a con-
sumer’s usage of any utility services provided by a 
utility or telecommunication firm may be furnished 
to a consumer reporting agency only to the extent 
that such information relates to payment by the con-
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sumer for the services of such utility or tele-
communication service or other terms of the provi-
sion of the services to the consumer, including any 
deposit, discount, or conditions for interruption or 
termination of the services. 
‘‘(3) PAYMENT PLAN.—An energy utility firm 
may not report payment information to a consumer 
reporting agency with respect to an outstanding bal-
ance of a consumer as late if— 
‘‘(A) the energy utility firm and the con-
sumer have entered into a payment plan (in-
cluding a deferred payment agreement, an ar-
rearage management program, or a debt for-
giveness program) with respect to such out-
standing balance; and 
‘‘(B) the consumer is meeting the obliga-
tions of the payment plan, as determined by the 
energy utility firm. 
‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the fol-
lowing definitions shall apply: 
‘‘(A) ENERGY UTILITY FIRM.—The term 
‘energy utility firm’ means an entity that pro-
vides gas or electric utility services to the pub-
lic. 
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‘‘(B) UTILITY
OR
TELECOMMUNICATION 
FIRM.—The term ‘utility or telecommunication 
firm’ means an entity that provides utility serv-
ices to the public through pipe, wire, landline, 
wireless, cable, or other connected facilities, or 
radio, electronic, or similar transmission (in-
cluding the extension of such facilities).’’. 
(b) LIMITATION ON LIABILITY.—Section 623(c) of 
the Consumer Credit Protection Act (15 U.S.C. 1681s– 
2(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the 
end; 
(2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (4); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) subsection (f) of this section, including any 
regulations issued thereunder; or’’. 
(c) GAO STUDY AND REPORT.—Not later than 2 
years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to 
Congress a report on the impact of furnishing information 
pursuant to subsection (f) of section 623 of the Fair Cred-
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it Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681s–2) (as added by this 
Act) on consumers. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 25, 2018. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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