S 2096 RS

To amend the Do-Not-Call Implementation Act to eliminate the automatic removal of telephone numbers registered on the Federal `do-not-call' registry.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

[Struck out->]SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.[<-Struck out][Struck out->]This Act may be cited as the `Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007'.[<-Struck out][Struck out->]SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF EXPIRATION DATE FOR REGISTERED TELEPHONE NUMBERS.[<-Struck out][Struck out->]The Do-Not-Call Implementation Act (15 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended-- [<-Struck out][Struck out->](1) by inserting `Such rule shall not provide any date of expiration for telephone numbers registered on the `do-not-call' registry, nor for any predetermined time limitation for telephone numbers to remain on the registry.' after the first sentence in section 3; and[<-Struck out][Struck out->](2) by adding at the end the following:[<-Struck out][Struck out->]`SEC. 5. PROHIBITION OF EXPIRATION DATE.[<-Struck out][Struck out->]`In issuing regulations regarding the `do-not-call' registry of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 C.F.R. 310.4(b)(1)(iii)), the Federal Trade Commission shall not provide for any date of expiration for telephone numbers registered on the `do-not-call' registry, nor for any predetermined time limitation for telephone numbers to remain on the registry.'.[<-Struck out]SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007'.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF EXPIRATION DATE FOR REGISTERED TELEPHONE NUMBERS.

(a) IN GENERAL- The registration of a telephone number on the do-not-call registry of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 C.F.R. 310.4(b)(1)(iii)) shall not expire at the end of any specified time period.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(b) REINSTATEMENT- The Federal Trade Commission shall reinstate the registration of any telephone number that has been removed from the registry before the date of enactment of this Act under a Federal Trade Commission rule or practice requiring the removal of a telephone number from the registry 5 years after its registration.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(c) REGISTRY MAINTENANCE- The Federal Trade Commission may check telephone numbers listed on the do-not-call registry against national databases periodically and purge those numbers that have been disconnected and reassigned.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To amend the Do-Not-Call Implementation Act to eliminate the automatic removal of telephone numbers registered on the Federal `do-not-call' registry.