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On May 13, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2547 also known as the Comprehensive Debt Collection Improvement Act (CDCIA). If passed by the Senate, the CDCIA would amend several existing consumer finance statutes and impose new requirements and limitations on debt collectors.

Ohio's recently-enacted Senate Bill 13, which becomes effective June 14, 2021, impacts the statutes of limitation applicable to various matters, including mortgage foreclosures.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR), effective May 3, 2021, to address certain conduct associated with the eviction moratorium issued by the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

Lease terms are often subject to interpretation against the party drafting them. Given this, it is imperative that landlords are cautious in lease provisions to guard against defenses raised by tenants when obligations are not met.

President Biden signed the COVID-19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act into law on March 27, 2021, previously passed overwhelmingly by Congress. The Act extends provisions of the Coronavirus Economic Stabilization Act of 2020 (CARES Act) through March 27, 2022.

On April 1, 2021 the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in the case Facebook, Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al, which decided the issue whether equipment that can store and dial telephone numbers can be found to be automatic telephone dialing systems under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

The County's Fiscal Officer has now advised that as a result of short-staffing due to COVID-19, it will not accept any new e-recording packages through February 23, 2021, and that any new e-recording packages during that time will be rejected.

On February 9, 2021, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) are extending the moratoriums on single-family foreclosures and real estate owned (REO) evictions until March 31, 2021.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA), recently signed into law on December 27, 2020, was primarily designed to extend several provisions of the CARES Act.

On December 9th, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced the first major consumer bankruptcy reform legislation before Congress since 2005. The Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2020 (CBRA), if passed, would fundamentally alter the bankruptcy system as we know it.