[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2349 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2349

   To amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to eliminate the common 
          carrier exemption for telecommunications companies.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 31, 2019

    Mrs. Feinstein (for herself, Ms. Klobuchar, and Mr. Blumenthal) 
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 Federal Trade Commission Act to eliminate the common 
          carrier exemption for telecommunications companies.

    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 ``Protection from Robocalling Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) illegal robocalls and spam calls are a growing 
        annoyance and problem for the people of the United States; and
            (2) exemptions within the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 
        U.S.C. 41 et seq.) limit the enforcement capabilities of the 
        Federal Trade Commission with respect to illegal robocalling 
        and spam calling.

SEC. 3. ELIMINATING THE COMMON CARRIER EXEMPTION FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
              COMPANIES.

    Section 4 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 44) is 
amended by striking ``the Act entitled `An Act to regulate commerce,' 
approved February 14, 1887, and all Acts amendatory thereof and 
supplementary thereto and the Communications Act of 1934'' and 
inserting ``subtitle IV of title 49, United States Code,''.
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