
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, July 31, 1990                   TAG: 9007310214
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

HOUSE OKS BILL LIMITING FAXES, CALLS

The House approved a bill Monday that would let homeowners and businesses keep incoming junk faxes and phone calls off their telephone lines.

The legislation, approved by a voice vote, would authorize the Federal Communications Commission to set up a national register of telephone subscribers who object to the unsolicited messages.

The FCC also would establish penalties for advertisers who call people on the list.

"This legislation empowers consumers and businesses with the ability to `just say no' to unsolicited telephone advertisements," said Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications and finance.

Solicitations by charitable and political organizations would be exempt from the ban.

Consumers, either private individuals or businesses, could specify that they do not wish to receive advertising by FAX machines or automatically dialed, prerecorded telephone solicitations.

- Associated Press

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