To amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to increase civil penalties for violations involving certain proscribed acts or practices that exploit popular reaction to an emergency or major disaster declared by the President, and to authorize the Federal Trade Commission to seek civil penalties for such violations in actions brought under section 13 of that Act.
American Spirit Fraud Prevention Act - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to: (1) double civil penalties imposed for committing unfair or deceptive acts or practices if such acts or practices exploit popular reaction during a presidentially declared emergency or disaster period; and (2) direct the court to impose a monetary civil penalty on a person found in an action seeking a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction to have committed such a violation (including dissemination of a false advertisement) during such period.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 108-5.
Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 108-5.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 3.
Mr. Stearns moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H413-415)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 346.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 422 - 1 (Roll no. 24).(text as passed House: CR H413)
Roll Call #24 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 422 - 1 (Roll no. 24). (text as passed House: CR H413)
Roll Call #24 (House)Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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