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Bills from the 2011–12 session

Assembly Bill 111

Prohibiting certain telephone calls using electronically prerecorded messages, rules for requesting a listing in the nonsolicitation directory, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation

Topics: Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, Department of, Data processing, Telephone

Stopped in committee

It never got a ⁠, so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Apr 27, 2011

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Assembly vote, not reached

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2012: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Consumer Protection and Personal Privacy. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Current law regulates "telephone solicitation," which is defined as the unsolicited initiation of a telephone conversation for the purpose of encouraging the recipient of the telephone call to purchase property, goods, or services. Generally, under current law, a telephone solicitor may not make a telephone solicitation to a residential customer if the customer's telephone number is included in a nonsolicitation directory maintained by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) listing residential customers who do not wish to receive telephone solicitations. Current law also prohibits a telephone solicitor from using an electronically prerecorded message in a telephone solicitation made to any recipient without the recipient's consent. Nonprofit organizations are not subject to current law regulating telephone solicitations.

This bill prohibits any person from using an electronically prerecorded message in an unsolicited telephone call to a residential customer whose telephone number is included in the nonsolicitation directory, subject to the following exceptions: 1) a call initiated by a school or school district to a student, a parent of a student, or an employee; 2) a call initiated to a residential customer by a person who has a current business or personal relationship with the customer; 3) a call initiated by a governmental unit that is intended to alert a recipient of the call to a danger to the recipient's health or safety; 4) a call initiated by a college or university to a graduate of the college or university; and 5) a call initiated by a debt collector for the purpose of collecting a debt.

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Under the bill, DATCP must promulgate rules requiring any person who uses, or requires an employee or contractor to use, an electronically prerecorded message in a telephone call to a residential customer in this state, other than a call covered by one of the exceptions in the bill, to register with and pay a fee to DATCP. A registration is valid for one year and may be renewed upon payment of a renewal fee to DATCP. Under the bill, registration and renewal fees for persons who use electronically prerecorded messages must equal the fees charged for a telephone solicitor under current law, except that the fees for nonprofit organizations may not exceed one-tenth of the fee charged for a telephone solicitor.

Current law requires DATCP to promulgate rules establishing requirements and procedures for a residential customer to request a listing in the nonsolicitation directory. The rules must require a residential customer who requests a listing in the directory to biennially notify DATCP if the residential customer wishes to continue to be included in the directory. If a residential customer fails to make the biennial notification, DATCP must eliminate the residential customer from the nonsolicitation directory.

Under the bill, DATCP must promulgate rules establishing requirements and procedures for a residential customer to request a listing in the nonsolicitation directory, but the rules may not require a residential customer to periodically renew his or her request as a condition of continuing to include the listing in the nonsolicitation directory.

Who's behind it

10 lawmakers are its ⁠. All 10 are Republicans.

3 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 13 names

Authors (10)

Signed on in support (3)

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2012

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. May 24, 2011

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  3. Apr 28, 2011

    1 more senator signed on in support.

  4. Apr 27, 2011

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Consumer Protection and Personal Privacy.

  5. Apr 27, 2011

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Apr 27, 2011 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Jacque, Nerison, Van Roy, Strachota, Wynn, Spanbauer, Petersen, Mursau, Bies and Weininger;Cosponsored by Senators Harsdorf and Schultz

  2. Apr 27, 2011 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Consumer Protection and Personal Privacy

  3. Apr 28, 2011 · Assembly

    Senator Wanggaard added as a cosponsor

  4. May 24, 2011 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Mar 23, 2012 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

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Legislative Reference Bureau

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Official term: LRB analysis

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Author

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Official term: Author, coauthor

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Signed on in support

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Official term: Cosponsor

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Cost estimate

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Official term: Fiscal estimate

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