[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1330 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1330

To amend the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act 
    to authorize the Federal Trade Commission to issue new rules to 
  establish a requirement that telemarketers shall not make any calls 
                  during the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2003

     Mr. King of New York (for himself, Mr. Lucas of Kentucky, Mr. 
  LaTourette, Mr. Skelton, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Stenholm, Mr. Taylor of 
 Mississippi, and Mrs. McCarthy of New York) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 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 to 
  establish a requirement that telemarketers shall not make any calls 
                  during the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

    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 requirement 
        that telemarketers shall not make any calls during the hours of 
        5 p.m. to 7 p.m.''.
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