1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop Debt Collection Abuse Act of 2017 . 2. Definitions Section 803 of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ( 15 U.S.C. 1692a ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (4), by striking facilitating collection of such debt for another and inserting collection of such debt ; (2) by striking paragraphs (5) and (6) and inserting the following: (5) The term debt means— (A) any obligation or alleged obligation of a consumer to pay money arising out of a transaction in which the money, property, insurance, or services that are the subject of the transaction are primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, whether or not such obligation has been reduced to judgment; or (B) any obligation or alleged obligation of a consumer— (i) to pay a loan, an overpayment, a fine, penalty, a fee, or other money to a Federal agency; and (ii) that is not less than 180 days past due. (6) The term debt collector — (A) means any person who— (i) uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the collection of any debts; (ii) regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, by its own means or by hiring another debt collector, debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another or that have been obtained by assignment or transfer from another; or (iii) regularly collects debts owed or allegedly owed to a Federal agency; (B) includes— (i) any creditor who, in the process of collecting his own debts, uses any name other than his own which would indicate that a third person is collecting or attempting to collect such debts; and (ii) for purposes of section 808(6), includes any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the enforcement of security interests; and (C) does not include— (i) any officer or employee of a creditor while, in the name of the creditor, collecting debts for such creditor