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HR 5769 110th Congress House

SMASH Act of 2008

Official title: To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the Telemarketing Sales Rule to explicitly prohibit the sending of a text message containing an unsolicited ad… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the Telemarketing Sales Rule to explicitly prohibit the sending of a text message containing an unsolicited advertisement to a cellular telephone number listed on the national do-not-call registry.

Introduced: April 10, 2008 See on congress.gov
Commerce Administrative procedureAdvertisingConsumer protectionFederal Trade Commission
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Apr 14, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Apr 10, 2008
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Apr 10, 2008
Introduced in House
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 Latest action April 14, 2008

Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Stop M-Spam Abuse as a Sales industry Habit Act of 2008 or the SMASH Act of 2008 - Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue regulations to revise the Telemarketing Sales Rule to explicitly prohibit, as an abusive telemarketing act or practice, the sending of any electronic commercial message containing an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone number that is assigned to a commercial mobile service and listed on the FTC's do-not-call registry.

Prohibits interpreting anything in this Act to preclude or override the applicability of specified provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 or the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 or rules prescribed under specified provisions of the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 1 Republican 5
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Wittman, Robert J.
Virginia · Apr 16, 2008
 R
Aderholt, Robert B.
Alabama · Apr 10, 2008
 R
Bilirakis, Gus M.
Florida · Apr 10, 2008
 R
Blackburn, Marsha
Tennessee · Apr 10, 2008
 R
Foxx, Virginia
North Carolina · Apr 10, 2008
 D
Moore, Gwen
Wisconsin · Apr 10, 2008
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5769: SMASH Act of 2008. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-5769/
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"H.R. 5769: SMASH Act of 2008." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-5769/.
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H.R. 5769, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-5769/.
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