[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5184 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5184

      To require businesses to permit customers to cancel certain 
 subscription services in the same manner and by the same means as is 
  provided by such person to individuals to subscribe to such service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 25, 2006

Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
      To require businesses to permit customers to cancel certain 
 subscription services in the same manner and by the same means as is 
  provided by such person to individuals to subscribe to such service.

    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 ``Consumer Cancellation Fairness 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CANCELLATION OF SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES.

    Not later than 180 days days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Federal Trade Commission shall promulgate rules pursuant 
to section 18 of the Federal trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 57a) to 
require any person providing a subscription service to provide, at 
minimum, the ability for individuals who have subscribed to such 
service to cancel such service in the same manner and by the same means 
as is provided by such person to individuals to subscribe to such 
service.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of the rulemaking required under section 2--
            (1) the term ``person'' has the same meaning given such 
        term in section 551(2) of title 5, United States Code; and
            (2) the term ``subscription service'' means any service, 
        including the regular delivery of any product, for which an 
        individual agrees to receive regular or continual receipt of 
        such service or product and is charged recurring fees or 
        charges for the period during which the individual receives 
        such service, and shall not include any service which requires 
        payment in full before receiving such service.
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