Introduced
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To require that automated phone calls (“robocalls”), faxes, or emails used by political campaigns and advocating the election or defeat of a candidate disclose the identity of the person paying for the communication and whether it is authorized by a candidate, with violations a misdemeanor subject to a $1,000 fine.
Referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that creates the same thing as in the Brown substitute, except that one has some additional "fine tuning".
The substitute failed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details of the ban and also bans robocalls between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m. eastern time, and between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m. in the central time zone.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To expand the mandated disclosures to all robocalls referring to a candidate, officeholder, or ballot question, and not just ones advocating the election or defeat of a candidate. For example, with the amendment the bill would apply to calls that say, "Call Reps. Moss and Brown, and tell them to do X".
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 100 to 8 (details)
To require that automated phone calls (“robocalls”), faxes, or emails used by political campaigns and advocating the election or defeat of a candidate disclose at the beginning of the communication the identity of the person paying for the communication and whether it is authorized by a candidate, with violations a misdemeanor subject to a 90 days in jail and a $500 fine, and more for subsequent violations. It would also ban robocall between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m. eastern time, and between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m. in the central time zone.
Referred to the Committee on Campaign and Election Oversight
