[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3541 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3541

   To amend the ``Do-not-call'' Implementation Act to eliminate the 
 automatic removal of telephone numbers registered on the Federal ``do-
                          not-call'' registry.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 17, 2007

Mr. Doyle (for himself, Mr. Pickering, and Mr. Boucher) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the ``Do-not-call'' Implementation Act to eliminate the 
 automatic removal of telephone numbers registered on the Federal ``do-
                          not-call'' registry.

    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 ``Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 
2007''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF EXPIRATION DATE FOR REGISTERED TELEPHONE 
              NUMBERS.

    The ``Do-not-call'' Implementation Act (15 U.S.C. 6101 note) is 
amended--
            (1) in section 3, after the first sentence, by inserting 
        the following: ``Such rule shall not provide any date of 
        expiration for telephone numbers registered on the `do-not-
        call' registry, nor for any predetermined time limitation for 
        telephone numbers to remain on the registry.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 5. PROHIBITION OF EXPIRATION DATE.

    ``In issuing regulations regarding the `do-not-call' registry of 
the Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 C.F.R. 310.4(b)(1)(iii)), the Federal 
Trade Commission shall not provide for any date of expiration for 
telephone numbers registered on the `do-not-call' registry, nor for any 
predetermined time limitation for telephone numbers to remain on the 
registry.''.
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