105th Congress / Bills / S 1618

Title

A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to improve the protection of consumers against "slamming" by telecommunications carriers, and for other purposes.

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Categories (What are categories?)

Actions and defenses | Administrative procedure -- Federal Communications Commission | Administrative procedure -- Federal Trade Commission | Administrative remedies | Aged | Armed forces | Budgets | Business | Business records | Cellular telephone | Children | Citizens band radio | Civil liberties | Class actions (Civil procedure) | Communication in medicine | Communications | Computer networks | Congress | Congressional reporting requirements | Consumer complaints | Consumer education | Consumer protection | Consumers | Criminal investigation | Criminal justice | Damages | Defense policy | Direct mail advertising | District courts | Electronic data interchange | Electronic mail systems | Electronic surveillance | Employee health benefits | Executive departments | Families | Federal aid to child health services | Federal preemption | Federal-state relations | Finance | Fines (Penalties) | Foreign corporations | Forfeiture | Government information | Government paperwork | Governmental investigations | Health insurance | Health insurance industry | Health policy | Independent regulatory commissions | Injunctions | Interactive media | Internet service providers | Jurisdiction | Labor | Language and languages | Law | Licenses | Local laws | Mailing lists | Marketing | Medicaid | Medical care | Medical records | Medicare | Medicine | Military dependents | Military medicine | Parties to actions | Patients' rights | Politics and government | Punitive damages | Radio stations | Recidivists | Restrictive trade practices | Right of privacy | Sentences (Criminal procedure) | State and local government | State laws | State politics and government | Surety and fidelity | Technology | Telecommunication | Telecommunication industry | Telecommunication rates | Telemarketing | Telephone | Telephone rates | Trade | Welfare

Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
5/12/98	Senate	Passed	Session 2, roll call 130: On Passage of the Bill S.1618 as amended; A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to improve the protection of consumers against "slamming" by telecommunications carriers, and for other purposes.