Do-Not-Call Registry Fee Extension Act of 2007

A bill to extend the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to collect Do-Not-Call Registry fees to fiscal years after fiscal year 2007.

2/15/2008--Public Law. (This measure has not been amended since it was was passed by the Senate on December 17, 2007. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Do-Not-Call Registry Fee Extension Act of 2007 -
(Sec. 2) Amends the Do-Not-Call Implementation Act to replace provisions relating to fees regarding the "do-not-call" registry of the Telemarketing Sales Rule with provisions requiring the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to collect an annual fee to implement and enforce the registry or any other regulation issued by the FTC under specified provisions of the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act. Sets the fee amount per area code accessed, subject to a maximum amount, and indexes the amount to inflation. Prohibits any arrangement to divide the fee among various clients of a telemarketer or service provider.
(Sec. 3) Replaces current reporting requirements with provisions requiring the FTC to report biennially to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives. Requires an additional, one-time FTC report to those committees on the effectiveness of do-not-call outreach and enforcement efforts to senior citizens and immigrant communities, the impact of the exceptions to the do-not-call registry on businesses and consumers, and the impact on do-not-call enforcement of abandoned calls made by predictive dialing devices.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Mark Pryor [D, AR]
• and 2 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. John Rockefeller [D, WV]
  • Sen. Ted Stevens [R, AK]
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Committees

• Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.781

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		This Bill Has Become Law
March 06, 2007		December 17, 2007		February 06, 2008		February 15, 2008		February 15, 2008

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• Enacted on Feb 15, 2008. Became Public Law No: 110-188.
• Signed on Feb 15, 2008.
• Feb 13, 2008. Presented to President.
• Passed by voice vote in the House on Feb 06, 2008. On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
• Feb 06, 2008: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 781.
• Feb 06, 2008: Considered under suspension of the rules.
• Feb 06, 2008: Mr. Butterfield moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
• Feb 06, 2008. Cleared for White House.
• Dec 17, 2007: Held at the desk.
• Dec 17, 2007: Received in the House.
• Dec 17, 2007: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
• Passed by Unanimous Consent in the Senate on Dec 17, 2007. Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
• Added to calendar on Dec 12, 2007: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 537..
• Dec 12, 2007: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Inouye with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-244.
• Aug 02, 2007: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Date of scheduled consideration. SR-253. 10:00 a.m.
• Mar 06, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
• Introduced on Mar 06, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• H.R.2601

Related Issue Areas:

• Consumers
• Administrative fees
• Budgets
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• Congressional reporting requirements
• Executive departments
• Federal Trade Commission
• Independent regulatory commissions
• Law
• Telecommunication
• Telemarketing

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March 11, 2008 An Update On The Federal Do-Not-Call Registry

By Tracey E. Schelmetic, Editorial Director, In February, US Congress passed two bills, S. 781 and HR 3541, that individually and collectively affect the ...

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February 22, 2008 Bill preserves Do Not Call list

... which prohibits the Federal Trade Commission from automatically removing phone numbers consumers have placed on the Do Not Call list, and S. 781, ...

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July 31, 2008 110th Congress and President Bush

the “Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007,” which prohibits the automatic removal of telephone numbers registered on the Federal “Do-Not-Call” registry which previously was removed after five years; and S. 781, the “Do-Not-Call Regi

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July 16, 2008 Salem Witch Trials

(Boyer und Nissenbaum, 1977, S. 781).Unabhängig von der Modus oder der Ort der Taufe, der Beichtväter vereinbart zu verzichten Christus und Satan Ertrag zu "Körper & Seele."(Boyer und Nissenbaum, 1977, S. 387). ...

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May 08, 2008 Do Not Call Registry

Congress has forwarded to President Bush to sign a bill which will make the National Do Not Call Registry permanent (S.781). They also sent a bill to President Bush making the . The Federal Communications Commission or FCC for short has ...

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