[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4709 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4709

To amend the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 to require commercial email messages 
 to include an option allowing recipients to unsubscribe from any such 
                             future emails.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2016

Miss Rice 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 CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 to require commercial email messages 
 to include an option allowing recipients to unsubscribe from any such 
                             future emails.

    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 ``Unsubscribe From All Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING AN OPTION TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM ALL ELECTRONIC 
              COMMUNICATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 5(a)(3)(A) of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (15 
U.S.C. 7704(a)(3)(A)) is amended to read as follows:
                    ``(A) In general.--It is unlawful for any person to 
                initiate the transmission to a protected computer of a 
                commercial electronic mail message that does not, 
                clearly and conspicuously displayed, contain--
                            ``(i) a functioning return electronic mail 
                        address or other Internet-based mechanism that 
                        a recipient may use to choose the specific 
                        types of commercial electronic mail messages 
                        the recipient wants to receive or does not want 
                        to receive from the sender, including an option 
                        under which the recipient may choose not to 
                        receive any commercial electronic mail messages 
                        from the sender, at the electronic mail address 
                        where the message was received; and
                            ``(ii) a functioning option labeled 
                        `unsubscribe from all' or a similar phrase 
                        that, upon selection, sends a reply electronic 
                        mail message or Internet-based communication 
                        requesting not to receive future commercial 
                        electronic mail messages from that sender at 
                        the electronic mail address where the message 
                        was received with not more than one additional 
                        action required by the recipient.''.
    (b) Time Period.--Section 5(a)(3)(B) of such Act (15 U.S.C. 
7704(a)(3)(B)) is amended to read as follows:
                    ``(B) Time period.--It is unlawful for any person 
                to initiate the transmission to a protected computer of 
                a commercial electronic message that does not remain 
                capable of receiving messages or communications sent 
                under subparagraph (A) for no less than 30 days after 
                the transmission of the original message.''.
    (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 5(a)(3)(C) of such Act (15 
U.S.C. 7704(a)(3)(C)) is amended by striking ``subparagraph (A)'' and 
inserting ``subparagraphs (A) and (B)''.
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