third-party seller’s identity information required 
under paragraph (1)(A) upon 3 business days’ 
notice to the high-volume third-party seller. 
(3) REPORTING MECHANISM.—An online mar-
ketplace shall disclose to consumers, in a con-
spicuous manner on the product listing of any high- 
volume third-party seller, a reporting mechanism 
that allows for electronic and telephonic reporting of 
suspicious marketplace activity to the online market-
place and a message encouraging individuals seeking 
goods for purchase to report suspicious activity to 
the online marketplace. 
(c) FULFILLMENT
OR SHIPMENT
BY DIFFERENT 
PARTY THAN SELLER.—In addition to the requirements 
of subsection (b), an online marketplace that warehouses, 
distributes, or otherwise fulfills a consumer product order 
shall disclose to the consumer the identification of any 
high-volume third-party seller supplying the consumer 
product if different than the seller listed on the product 
listing page. 
(d) ENFORCEMENT.— 
(1) UNFAIR AND DECEPTIVE ACTS OR PRAC-
TICES.—A violation of subsection (a), (b), or (c) 
shall be treated as a violation of a rule defining an 
unfair or deceptive act or practice prescribed under 
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section 18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commis-
sion Act (15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B)). 
(2) POWERS OF THE COMMISSION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall 
enforce this Act in the same manner, by the 
same means, and with the same jurisdiction, 
powers, and duties as though all applicable 
terms and provisions of the Federal Trade 
Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) were in-
corporated into and made a part of this Act. 
(B) PRIVILEGES
AND
IMMUNITIES.—Any 
person that violates subsection (a), (b), or (c) 
shall be subject to the penalties, and entitled to 
the privileges and immunities, provided in the 
Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 
et seq.). 
(3) REGULATIONS.—The Federal Trade Com-
mission may promulgate regulations under section 
553 of title 5, United States Code, with respect to 
collecting and verifying information under this sec-
tion, provided that such regulations are limited to 
what is necessary to collect and verify such informa-
tion. 
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(4) AUTHORITY PRESERVED.—Nothing in this 
Act shall be construed to limit the authority of the 
Commission under any other provision of law. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Federal Trade Commission. 
(2) CONSUMER
PRODUCT.—The term ‘‘con-
sumer product’’ means any tangible personal prop-
erty which is distributed in commerce and which is 
normally used for personal, family, or household 
purposes (including any such property intended to 
be attached to or installed in any real property with-
out regard to whether it is so attached or installed). 
(3) HIGH-VOLUME THIRD-PARTY SELLER.—The 
term ‘‘high-volume third-party seller’’ means a par-
ticipant in an online marketplace who is a third- 
party seller and who, in any continuous 12-month 
period during the previous 24 months, has entered 
into 200 or more discrete sales or transactions of 
new or unused consumer products resulting in the 
accumulation of an aggregate total of $5,000 or 
more in gross revenues. 
(4) ONLINE MARKETPLACE.—The term ‘‘online 
marketplace’’ means any electronically based or 
accessed platform that— 
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(A) includes features that allow for, facili-
tate, or enable third-party sellers to engage in 
the sale, purchase, payment, storage, shipping, 
or delivery of a consumer product in the United 
States; and 
(B) hosts one or more third-party sellers. 
(5) SELLER.—The term ‘‘seller’’ means a per-
son who sells, offers to sell, or contracts to sell a 
consumer product through an online marketplace. 
(6) THIRD-PARTY SELLER.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘third-party 
seller’’ means any seller, independent of an op-
erator, facilitator, or owner of an online mar-
ketplace, who sells, offers to sell, or contracts to 
sell a consumer product in the United States 
through an online marketplace. 
(B) EXCLUSION.—The term ‘‘third-party 
seller’’ does not include a seller who— 
(i) is a business entity that has made 
available to the general public the entity’s 
name, business address, and working con-
tact information; 
(ii) has an ongoing contractual rela-
tionship with the owner of the online mar-
ketplace to provide for the manufacture, 
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distribution, wholesaling, or fulfillment of 
shipments of consumer products; and 
(iii) has provided to the online mar-
ketplace identifying information, as de-
scribed in subsection (a), that has been 
verified pursuant to that subsection. 
(7) VERIFY.—The term ‘‘verify’’ means to con-
firm information provided to an online marketplace 
pursuant to this section by the use of— 
(A) a third-party or proprietary identity 
verification system that has the capability to 
confirm a seller’s name, email address, physical 
address, and phone number; or 
(B) a combination of two-factor authen-
tication, public records search, and the presen-
tation of a government-issued identification. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This Act shall take effect 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
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