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MS SB2464

Bill

Status

Failed

2/1/2022

Primary Sponsor

Tyler McCaughn

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Origin

Senate

2022 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Defines "open account" broadly to include accounts for single or multiple transactions involving goods or services, based on oral or written agreements, including debts for professional services like legal, medical, and construction services

  • Requires debtors who fail to pay an open account within 30 days after receiving written demand with an invoice or itemized statement to pay reasonable attorney's fees if judgment is rendered against them

  • Clarifies that open account invoices may or may not include written terms of sale, and written demand is not required to be made by any specific method

  • Allows prevailing defendants in open account lawsuits to recover reasonable attorney's fees from the plaintiff

  • Exempts retail sales installment contracts assigned to lenders licensed under Mississippi's Small Loan Regulatory Law (Sections 75-67-201 through 75-67-247) from these provisions

Legislative Description

Open accounts; revise provision relating to.

Last Action

Died In Committee

2/1/2022

Committee Referrals

Judiciary, Division A1/17/2022

Full Bill Text

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