[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2096 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  1st Session
                                S. 2096

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 26, 2007

 Mr. Dorgan (for himself and Mr. Stevens, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Ensign, Mr. 
 Kerry, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Feingold, Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. 
Nelson of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
 and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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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) by inserting ``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.'' after the first 
        sentence in section 3; 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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