[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6943 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6943

  To permit the Federal Trade Commission to implement and enforce the 
Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act with respect 
          to certain common carriers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2018

 Mrs. Dingell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To permit the Federal Trade Commission to implement and enforce the 
Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act with respect 
          to certain common carriers, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Creating Enforcement Authority to 
Stop Enablers of Robocalls Act'' or the ``CEASE Robocalls Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF FTC TO IMPLEMENT AND ENFORCE TELEMARKETING AND 
              CONSUMER FRAUD AND ABUSE PREVENTION ACT.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any limitation in section 6 of the 
Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (15 U.S.C. 
6105), the exceptions to the powers of the Commission under the Federal 
Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) relating to common carriers 
shall not apply to implementation or enforcement by the Commission, 
with respect to common carriers subject to the Communications Act of 
1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) and all Acts amendatory thereof and 
supplementary thereto, of the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and 
Abuse Prevention Act (15 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), the Telemarketing Sales 
Rule (16 C.F.R. part 310), or any other regulation issued by the 
Commission under section 3 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 6102).
    (b) Commission Defined.--In this section, the term ``Commission'' 
means the Federal Trade Commission.
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