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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 852 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for additional technical 
and procedural standards for artificial or prerecorded voice telephone 
messages and the establishment of such standards for live telephone 
solicitations. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 10, 2015 
Mr. SCHWEIKERT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for 
additional technical and procedural standards for artifi-
cial or prerecorded voice telephone messages and the 
establishment of such standards for live telephone solici-
tations. 
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 ‘‘Transparency in Phone 
Solicitation Act of 2015’’ or the ‘‘TIPS Act of 2015’’. 
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SEC. 2. TECHNICAL AND PROCEDURAL STANDARDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 227(d) of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(d)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting ‘‘or to 
make any live telephone solicitation’’ after ‘‘auto-
matic telephone dialing system’’ the second place it 
appears; 
(2) in paragraph (3)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘or address’’ and in-
serting ‘‘and address’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting 
‘‘and the address of a website that the 
called party may use to indicate that such 
party does not wish to receive telephone 
calls from such business, other entity, or 
individual;’’; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as 
subparagraph (C); and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (A) 
the following: 
‘‘(B) any such system will, to the extent 
possible, transmit caller identification informa-
tion (as defined in subsection (e)(8)) that in-
cludes— 
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‘‘(i) the identity of the business, other 
entity, or individual initiating the call; and 
‘‘(ii) a telephone number that the 
called party may use to return the call di-
rectly to such business, other entity, or in-
dividual; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) LIVE TELEPHONE SOLICITATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall 
prescribe technical and procedural standards 
for any business, other entity, or individual that 
makes a live telephone solicitation. Such stand-
ards shall require that— 
‘‘(i) all such solicitations shall— 
‘‘(I) at the beginning of the call, 
state clearly the identity of the busi-
ness, other entity, or individual mak-
ing the solicitation; and 
‘‘(II) during the call, state clearly 
the telephone number and address of 
such business, other entity, or indi-
vidual and the address of a website 
that the called party may use to indi-
cate that such party does not wish to 
receive telephone solicitations from 
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such business, other entity, or indi-
vidual; 
‘‘(ii) the business, other entity, or in-
dividual making the solicitation shall, to 
the extent possible, transmit caller identi-
fication information (as defined in sub-
section (e)(8)) that includes— 
‘‘(I) the identity of such business, 
other entity, or individual; and 
‘‘(II) a telephone number that 
the called party may use to return the 
call directly to such business, other 
entity, or individual; and 
‘‘(iii) the business, other entity, or in-
dividual making the solicitation shall re-
lease the called party’s line within 5 sec-
onds of the time notification is transmitted 
to such business, other entity, or individual 
that the called party has hung up, to allow 
the called party’s line to be used to make 
or receive other calls. 
‘‘(B) LIVE TELEPHONE SOLICITATION DE-
FINED.—In this paragraph, the term ‘live tele-
phone solicitation’ means a telephone solicita-
tion— 
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‘‘(i) in which the business, other enti-
ty, or individual initiating the call does not 
employ an artificial or prerecorded voice; 
and 
‘‘(ii) with respect to which such busi-
ness, other entity, or individual does not 
have a personal relationship (as defined in 
section 64.1200(f) of title 47, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations) with the called party.’’. 
(b) DEADLINE FOR REGULATIONS.—Not later than 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Federal Communications Commission shall promulgate 
such regulations and make such revisions to its regula-
tions as may be necessary to implement the amendments 
made by subsection (a). 
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