H.R. 1776: Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act
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H.R. 1776: Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act
110th Congress · introduced 2007-03-29 · Commerce · Latest: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2007-03-29 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Altmire, Jason [D-PA-4] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Subcommittee Hearings Held. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act
Plain summary
Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act - Directs each U.S. corporation or subsidiary that utilizes a call center to initiate telephone calls to, or receive calls from, individuals located in the United States to require each call center employee to disclose the physical location of such employee at the beginning of such call. Requires such corporation or subsidiary to annually certify to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) their compliance with such requirement. Subjects noncomplying corporations or subsidiaries to such civil penalties as the FTC may prescribe. Directs the FTC to prescribe rules for effective monitoring and compliance with such requirement.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Official text
Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Altmire, Jason [D-PA-4] · 48 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
James P. McGovern (D-MA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA), John B. Larson (D-CT), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-110hr1776.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/110/hr>
Record fed-us-cong110-hr1776 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong110 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong110