I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 526
To direct certain Federal agencies to issue rules that coordinate with the 
establishment by the Federal Trade Commission of a list of telephone 
numbers of consumers who do not want to receive telephone calls for 
telemarketing purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 4, 2003
Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut (for herself and Mr. SIMMONS) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services and Agri-
culture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To direct certain Federal agencies to issue rules that coordi-
nate with the establishment by the Federal Trade Com-
mission of a list of telephone numbers of consumers 
who do not want to receive telephone calls for tele-
marketing purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Telemarketing Relief 
Act of 2003’’.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF TELEMARKETER NO-CALL 
RULES BY FEDERAL AGENCIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the agencies identified in 
subsection (b) shall issue rules that are substantially simi-
lar to the Telemarketing Sales Rule promulgated by the 
Federal Trade Commission (16 C.F.R. 310). 
(b) AGENCIES REQUIRED TO ISSUE RULES.—
(1) The Securities and Exchange Commission 
shall promulgate rules required by subsection (a) 
pursuant to section 3(d) of the Telemarketing and 
Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (15 
U.S.C. 6102(d)), subject to the exception set forth 
in section 3(d)(1)(B) of that Act. 
(2) The Commodity Futures Trading Commis-
sion shall promulgate rules required by subsection 
(a) pursuant to section 6(f) of the Commodity Ex-
change Act (7 U.S.C. 9b), subject to the exceptions 
set forth in paragraph (2) of that section. 
(3) The Board of Governors of the Federal Re-
serve System, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, 
and the National Credit Union Administration 
Board shall each promulgate rules required by sub-
section (a) pursuant to section 18(f) of the Federal 
Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 57a), subject to
the exceptions set forth in clauses (A) and (B) of 
paragraph (1) of that section. 
(c) 
FEDERAL
COMMUNICATION
COMMISSION 
RULES.—
(1) PROMULGATION.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal 
Communications Commission shall promulgate rules 
substantially similar to the Telemarketing Sales 
Rule promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission 
(16 C.F.R. 310). 
(2) APPLICATION.—The rules promulgated by 
the Federal Communications Commission under 
paragraph (1) shall apply to telephone solicitations, 
as defined under section 227(a)(3) of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(a)(3)). 
(3) ENFORCEMENT.—Rules issued by the Fed-
eral Communications Commission under this Act 
shall be enforced by the Federal Communications 
Commission in the same manner as rules issued by 
the Commission under the Communications Act of 
1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) 
(d) ENFORCEMENT OF NO-CALL LIST MAINTAINED 
BY FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.—Rules issued under 
this section shall prohibit the making of any telephone call 
for telemarketing purposes to a telephone number included
on the registry established and published by the Federal 
Trade Commission under the Telemarketing Sales Rule 
(16 C.F.R. 310). 
SEC. 3. EXCEPTIONS. 
The rules under this Act shall not prohibit use of a 
telephone number of a consumer for any of the following: 
(1) Charitable, political opinion polling or other 
political activities, or other nonprofit activities. 
(2) Use with the consumer’s prior written or 
verbal permission. 
(3) Use primarily in connection with an existing 
debt of the consumer or contract with the consumer 
that has not been paid or performed, respectively. 
(4) Compilation, by a provider of telephone ex-
change service or telephone toll service as defined 
under section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 
(47 U.S.C. 153), of a directory of telephone num-
bers of that provider. 
(5) Use by one business to communicate with 
another business.
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