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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · H.R. 7116 (Introduced in House) — To strengthen certain provisions relating to restrictions on robocalls and telemarketing, and for other purposes. · Sec. 201

Sec. 201. Addition of text message to the definition of telemarketing

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Section 7 of the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act ( 15 U.S.C. 6106 ) is amended— in paragraph (4), by inserting or text message after telephone call ; and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: The term text message means a message consisting of text, images, sounds, or other information that is transmitted to or from a device that is identified as the receiving or transmitting device by means of a 10-digit telephone number, N11 service code, short code telephone number, or email address, or that is transmitted through application-to-person messaging, and includes— a short message service (commonly referred to as SMS ) message; a multimedia message service (commonly referred to as MMS ) message; and a rich communication service (commonly referred to as RCS ) message.
The term text message does not include a real-time, two-way voice or video communication. .
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