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Code of Virginia
Title 59.1. Trade and Commerce
Chapter 35.1. Consumer Reporting Agencies
10/9/2024

§ 59.1-444.1. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

"Collection entity" means any person that purchases debt or collects debt on behalf of another entity.

"Consumer" means an individual who is also a resident of the Commonwealth.

"Consumer report" has the same meaning as provided in § 603(d) of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. § 1681a(d)).

"Consumer reporting agency" has the same meaning as in § 603(f) of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. § 1681a(f)).

"Credit report" means a "consumer report," provided, however, that for purposes of this chapter, a credit report is limited to information that a consumer reporting agency furnishes to a person that it has reason to believe intends to use the information as a factor in establishing the consumer's eligibility for credit to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.

"Health care services" means the furnishing of services for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human physical illness or injury or a mental or behavioral condition or disorder.

"Medical debt" means debt arising from health care services, including products, devices, durable medical equipment, and prescription drugs, and from the provision of transportation to receive health care services. "Medical debt" does not include debt charged to a credit card but does include an open-end or closed-end extension of credit made by a financial institution to a borrower that may be used by the borrower solely for the purpose of the purchase of health care services.

"Proper identification" means proper identification as defined in 15 U.S.C. § 1681h(a)(1).

2008, cc. 480, 496; 2014, c. 570; 2024, c. 751.

The chapters of the acts of assembly referenced in the historical citation at the end of this section may not constitute a comprehensive list of such chapters and may exclude chapters whose provisions have expired.