A bill to ratify the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to establish the do-not-call registry.

Declares that the Federal Trade Commission is authorized under the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act to compile and implement a national do-not-call registry.

Ratifies the do-not-call registry provision of the Telemarketing Sales Rule promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission, effective March 31, 2003.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1655 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1655

 To ratify the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to establish 
                       the do-not-call registry.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 25, 2003

 Mr. Ensign (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. DeWine, Mr. 
 McCain, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Feingold, 
 Mr. Harkin, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Pryor, Mr. Voinovich, Mr. 
    Biden, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. 
  Corzine, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Graham of South 
   Carolina, Mr. Alexander, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Allen, Mr. Cornyn, Ms. 
     Cantwell, Mr. Smith, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Graham of Florida, Ms. 
 Murkowski, Mr. Nelson of Florida, Mr. Domenici, Mr. Reed, Mr. Warner, 
  Mr. Frist, Mr. Burns, Mr. Lugar, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. 
Coleman, Mr. Daschle, Mr. Akaka, Ms. Collins, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Chafee, Ms. 
    Snowe, Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Bayh, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. 
 Brownback, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Reid, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Nickles, Mr. Campbell, 
  Mr. Wyden, Ms. Stabenow, and Mr. Specter) 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 ratify the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to establish 
                       the 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. NATIONAL DO-NOT-CALL REGISTRY.

    (a) Authority.--The Federal Trade Commission is authorized under 
section 3(a)(3)(A) of the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse 
Prevention Act (15 U.S.C. 6102(a)(3)(A)) to implement and enforce a 
national do-not-call registry.
    (b) Ratification.--The do-not-call registry provision of the 
Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 C.F.R. 310.4(b)(1)(iii)), which was 
promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission, effective March 31, 2003, 
is ratified.
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