Preceded by Gene Shelby Website vines4staterep.com Nationality American Name John Vines | Role American Politician Profession Attorney | |
Born September 14, 1973 (age 51) ( 1973-09-14 ) Alma mater University of ArkansasUniversity of Arkansas School of Law | ||
John T. Vines (born September 14, 1973) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Arkansas House of Representatives representing District 25 since January 2011.
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He is ineligible under state term limits legislation to seek a fourth term in the House in 2016.
Education
Vines earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas and his JD from the University of Arkansas School of Law.
Elections
Arkansas House Bill 2028
In 2013 Vines introduced House Bill 2028, "An Act To Regulate The Practices Of Credit Card Issuers; And To Establish The Terms To Be Used In Credit Card Transactions." The Bill "established the terms to be used in credit card transactions", including the legal definition for "creditor" to mean "a person, business, financial institution, or commercial enterprise that owns the credit card account." The law was voted in by the Senate on April 18, 2013 and by the House on April 19, 2013. In a Bloomberg Law 2016 article that compared how different states were approaching the "national tidal wave of consumer debt litigation, driven by aggressive junk-debt buyers" Bloomberg reported that H. B. 2018 provided creditors and debt buyers "with a presumption of accuracy in credit card debt cases with a final billing resulting in debt buyers can more frequently "sue the wrong consumer, seek the wrong amount, attempt to collect on debts that have already been paid, file actions on debts barred by the applicable statute of limitation or seek payment on debts previously discharged in bankruptcy."
Popular culture
John Oliver featured a video of Vines introducing the Bill on his twenty-minute segment on Debt Buyers on his June 6, 2016 HBO show, Tonight with John Oliver.