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                                                 Union Calendar No. 301
110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3541

                          [Report No. 110-486]

   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

                           December 11, 2007

 Additional sponsors: Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Moran of Kansas, Mr. Capuano, 
    Mrs. McCarthy of New York, Mr. King of New York, Mr. Cohen, Mr. 
 Higgins, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Johnson of Illinois, Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of 
California, Mr. Walsh of New York, Mrs. Boyda of Kansas, Mrs. McMorris 
  Rodgers, Mr. Stupak, Mr. Ellsworth, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. 
Pallone, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, Ms. Hirono, Mrs. Cubin, Ms. Hooley, 
Mr. Kirk, Mr. Allen, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Holt, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, and 
                     Mr. Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania

                           December 11, 2007

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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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,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``Do-Not-Call Improvement Act 
of 2007''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF EXPIRATION DATE FOR REGISTERED 
              TELEPHONE NUMBERS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    The ``Do-not-call'' Implementation Act (15 U.S.C. 6101 
note) is amended--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (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</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) by adding at the end the following:</DELETED>

<DELETED>``SEC. 5. PROHIBITION OF EXPIRATION DATE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    ``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.''.</DELETED>

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 NUMBERS.

    The Do-Not-Call Implementation Act (15 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended 
by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 5. PROHIBITION OF EXPIRATION DATE.

    ``(a) No Automatic Removal of Numbers.--Telephone numbers 
registered on the national `do-not-call' registry of the Telemarketing 
Sales Rule (16 C.F.R. 310.4(b)(1)(iii)) since the establishment of the 
registry and telephone numbers registered on such registry after the 
date of enactment of this Act, shall not be removed from such registry 
except as provided for in subsection (b) or upon the request of the 
individual to whom the telephone number is assigned.
    ``(b) Removal of Invalid, Disconnected, and Reassigned Telephone 
Numbers.--The Federal Trade Commission shall check telephone numbers 
registered on the national `do-not-call' registry against national or 
other appropriate databases twice each month and shall remove from such 
registry those telephone numbers that have been disconnected and 
reassigned. Nothing in this section prohibits the Federal Trade 
Commission from removing invalid telephone numbers from the registry at 
any time.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 301

110th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 3541

                          [Report No. 110-486]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           December 11, 2007

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed