Revises provisions relating to certain debt. (BDR 52-599)

From the Legislature

AN ACT relating to debt; establishing coerced debt as an affirmative defense in certain civil actions to collect an unsecured consumer debt; setting forth requirements for asserting the affirmative defense of coerced debt; requiring a court to take certain actions upon finding that a debt is a coerced debt; authorizing certain claims and remedies; revising provisions governing the presumption of intent to defraud in the issuance of certain instruments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.