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Congress Reaches Agreement on CAN-SPAM Act

This afternoon, after considerable negotiation and recent reports of hightened pressure to reach an agreement, the House of Representatives voted 392-5 to accept an amended version, the pdf text of which is available via CNET, of the Senate’s CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (S. 877).

  • Tauzin Announces Agreement On Historic Anti-Spam Bill, states that the bill:
    “Empowers American consumers with the right to opt-out of all unwanted and unsolicited commercial e-mail or SPAM; Provides the FTC with the authority to set up a Do-Not-SPAM registry.”

  • This legislation will pre-empt state anti-spam legislation, such as California’s anti-spam law, signed by former Gov. Gray Davis September 23, to become effective January 1, 2004.
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