[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5283 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5283

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

                           September 25, 2000

  Mr. Salmon 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 telemarketer's do-not-call list or 
                the appropriate State do-not-call list; and
                    ``(B) a requirement that telemarketers shall obtain 
                and reconcile with their own on a regular basis the 
                appropriate State list.''.

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 telemarketers 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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