§6154 Reporting Requirements

Summary

The Federal Trade Commission, working with the Federal Communications Commission, must send a report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce by December 31, 2009 and every two years after that. That report must say how many consumers registered their phone numbers on the do-not-call list; how many people pay to access the list and how much they pay; how the list is affected by the five-year re-registration rule, new phone technology, number portability, and abandoned numbers; and how the established business relationship exception affects businesses and consumers. By December 31, 2009 the FTC, with the FCC, must also send a report to the same two committees on how well outreach and enforcement work for senior citizens and immigrant communities; how the registry’s exceptions affect businesses and consumers and how effective consumers think the registry is; and how abandoned calls from predictive dialers affect do-not-call enforcement.