[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3180 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3180

To amend the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act 
to authorize the Federal Trade Commission to issue new rules regulating 
              telemarketing firms, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 1999

  Mr. Salmon (for himself, Mr. Oberstar, Mr. Metcalf, Mr. Inslee, Mr. 
Stark, and Mr. Frelinghuysen) introduced the following bill; which was 
                 referred to the Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act 
to authorize the Federal Trade Commission to issue new rules regulating 
              telemarketing firms, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Telemarketing Victims Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION RULES.

    Section 3(a) of the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse 
Prevention Act (15 U.S.C. 6102) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(4) The Commission shall include in such rules respecting 
        other abusive telemarketing acts or practices--
                    ``(A) a requirement that telemarketers shall notify 
                consumers who are called that they have the right to be 
                placed on either the Direct Marketing Association's do-
                not-call list or the appropriate State do-not-call list 
                and if a consumer elects to be place on such a list the 
                telemarketer will notify, within a reasonable time, the 
                Association or State as appropriate;
                    ``(B) a requirement that telemarketers shall obtain 
                and reconcile on a regular basis the Direct Marketing 
                Association's do-not-call list or the appropriate State 
                list;
                    ``(C) a requirement that telemarketers shall not 
                make any calls during the hours of 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM; 
                and
                    ``(D) a requirement that telemarketers may not, in 
                making a telemarketing telephone call, block the 
                identity of the telephone from which they are making 
                the call to evade devices designed to identify 
                callers.''.

SEC. 3. STUDY.

    The Federal Trade Commission shall conduct a study of the 
violations of the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention 
Act by telemarkerters especially of repeated violations by a single 
telemarketer and of the provisions for penalizing telemarketers for 
such violations, including new provisions which would allow appropriate 
Federal action against telemarketers. The Commission shall complete the 
study within one year of the date of enactment of this Act and report 
its findings to the Congress.
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