2009 House Bill 4985 ↩

House Roll Call 295: Passed

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.