One Hundred Tenth Congress of the United States of America
At the Second Session
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of January, two thousand and eight
H. R. 3541
AN ACT
To amend the Do-not-call Implementation Act
to eliminate the automatic removal of telephone numbers registered on the
Federal do-not-call
registry.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of
2007
.
Prohibition of expiration date for registered numbers
The Do-Not-Call Implementation Act (15 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended by adding at the end the following:
Prohibition of expiration date
No automatic removal of numbers
Telephone
numbers registered on the national do-not-call
registry of the
Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 CFR 310.4(b)(1)(iii)) since the establishment of
the registry and telephone numbers registered on such registry after the date
of enactment of this Act, shall not be removed from such registry except as
provided for in subsection (b) or upon the request of the individual to whom
the telephone number is assigned.
Removal of invalid, disconnected, and reassigned telephone numbers
The Federal Trade Commission shall
periodically check telephone numbers registered on the national
do-not-call
registry against national or other appropriate
databases and shall remove from such registry those telephone numbers that have
been disconnected and reassigned. Nothing in this section prohibits the
Federal Trade Commission from removing invalid telephone numbers from the
registry at any
time.
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Report on accuracy
Not later than 9
months after the enactment of this Act, the Federal Trade Commission shall
report to Congress on efforts taken by the Commission, after the date of
enactment of this Act, to improve the accuracy of the
do-not-call
registry.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.