[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5572 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5572

    To require the Federal Communications Commission to complete a 
 rulemaking proceeding relating to placing unauthorized charges on the 
                 telecommunications bill of a consumer.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 23, 2016

Ms. Schakowsky (for herself, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. Grijalva, and 
  Mr. Honda) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Federal Communications Commission to complete a 
 rulemaking proceeding relating to placing unauthorized charges on the 
                 telecommunications bill of a consumer.

    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 ``Protect Consumers from Phony Phone 
Charges Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. RULEMAKING RELATING TO CRAMMING.

    (a) Definition.--In this section, the term ``cramming'' means the 
act of placing unauthorized charges on a wireline, wireless, or bundled 
services telephone bill of a consumer.
    (b) Rulemaking.--Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall complete a 
rulemaking proceeding relating to cramming, during which the Commission 
shall consider whether to issue a rule to require blocking the 
placement of third-party charges on a wireline, wireless, or bundled 
services telephone bill of a consumer under the criteria upon which the 
Commission relied when the Commission entered into a consent decree 
relating to cramming with any mobile voice and data service provider.
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