Facsimile Advertising Regulation Act
Official title: To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit certain practices involving commercial uses of telephone facsimile machines.
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For Further Action See H.R.2921.
Facsimile Advertising Regulation Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 with respect to telephone facsimile machines (equipment which has the capacity to reproduce text or images into an electronic signal, transmit such signal over a regular telephone line, receive such signals, and produce a copy of the transmitted text and images). Makes it unlawful for any person in the District of Columbia or in interstate or foreign communications, by means of a telephone, to use any telephone facsimile machine (fax machine) or other electronic device to send any unsolicited advertisement to the fax machine of any person whose number is on record with a common carrier as the number of one objecting to receipt of such advertisements.
Directs each common carrier to maintain a list of persons who notify them of their objection to receiving such unsolicited advertisements by fax machines.
Directs the Federal Communications Commission to revise the regulations governing fax machines to require that any such machine which is manufactured six months after the enactment of this Act and used for the distribution of unsolicited advertising be equipped to identify the date and time sent, an identification of the business sending the advertising, and the telephone number of the sending machine.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2184: Facsimile Advertising Regulation Act. 101st Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-2184/
"H.R. 2184: Facsimile Advertising Regulation Act." 101st Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-2184/.
H.R. 2184, 101st Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-2184/.
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