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On July 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)’s medical debt rule. The final rule, originally scheduled to go into effect in March of this...more
This alert is part of Holland & Knight's Garden State Initiative, a firmwide effort to enhance coordination among attorneys, clients and professional networks with ties to New Jersey to foster greater collaboration across...more
On August 1, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas dismissed without prejudice a case against the CFPB’s medical debt rule (covered by InfoBytes here) following the plaintiffs’ request to withdraw their...more
On July 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) rule prohibiting the inclusion of medical debt on consumer credit reports. The court also...more
In July 2024, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed the Louisa Carman Medical Debt Relief Act into law (the Act). The Act protects patients from certain medical debt collection actions and contains several restrictions on...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the July 2025 webinar....more
Earlier this month, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas approved a consent judgment vacating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Medical Debt Rule. The decision holds that the CFPB...more
On July 11, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the CFPB’s Medical Debt Rule, concluding that the rule exceeded the Bureau’s statutory authority under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The...more
On July 11, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated the CFPB’s medical debt rule on the grounds that it exceeded the Bureau’s statutory authority and violated both the FCRA and the APA, granting the...more
On July 14, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) filed a status report announcing its decision not to reissue its Medical Debt Collection Advisory Opinion, which had been issued in 2024 to “remind debt...more
A Texas federal judge has voided a Biden Administration CFPB rule that would have prohibited medical debt in credit reports....more
The U.S. House of Representatives returns from a district work period. The U.S. Senate is expected to consider the $9.4 billion rescissions package that passed the House last month. If not passed by July 18, 2025, the...more
On June 26, Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee signed companion bills S 0169 and S 0172 into law, twin measures that amend the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act and Interest and Usury statute to impose some of the nation’s...more
On June 23, Oregon enacted SB 605, barring medical-debt information from appearing in consumer credit reports. The measure, which amends the Oregon Unlawful Trade Practices Act, takes effect January 1, 2026....more
On June 26, the governor of Rhode Island signed into law S0169, which amends the state’s deceptive trade practices laws to prohibit credit reporting agencies from reporting a consumer’s medical debt. The law also bars filing...more
On June 23, the Oregon Legislature chaptered SB 605, enacting new restrictions on the reporting of medical debt to consumer reporting agencies. The law prohibits any person from reporting to a consumer reporting agency the...more
On June 9, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed into law LD558, which prohibits the reporting of medical debt to consumer reporting agencies. The law bars medical creditors, debt collectors, and debt buyers from furnishing...more
On June 9, the governor of Maine approved LD 558, which prohibits medical creditors, debt collectors, and debt buyers from reporting consumer medical debt to consumer reporting agencies. The new law replaces previous...more
Welcome to our sixth issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we look at the impact of supply chain and tariff issues on the industry, the veto of Florida's...more
On May 16, Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed into law S. 27, a medical debt relief measure that prohibits the inclusion of medical debt on consumer credit reports and establishes a state-funded initiative to abolish...more
On May 16, the governor of Vermont signed into law S 27, an act that is meant to provide medical debt relief for Vermont residents by, among other things, excluding medical debt from credit reporting. For fiscal year 2026, $1...more
On May 2, the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia approved HB 1725, which establishes the Medical Debt Protection Act to regulate billing and collection practices for medical debts. Effective July 1, 2026, the Act...more
On April 30, the CFPB and two industry associations filed a joint motion with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas requesting that the court vacate the Bureau’s medical debt rule. The associations,...more
The CFPB on April 30, 2025, reached an agreement with lender trade groups to vacate the Prohibition on Creditors and Consumer Reporting Agencies Concerning Medical Information Rule (the Medical Debt Rule). The joint motion...more
On May 1, the CFPB filed a joint motion with two financial trade groups to vacate a Biden-era rule barring most medical debt from appearing on consumer credit reports. The motion comes after lender groups filed a lawsuit in...more