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108th Congress > House > Vote 23

Date: February 12, 2003

Result: 422-1 (Passed)

Clerk session vote number: 24

Vote Subject Matter: Civil Liberties / Domestic Social Policy

Sponsor: BASS, Charles Foster (R-NH)

Bill number: HR346

Question: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

Description: American Spirit Fraud Prevention Act

Bill summary: (This measure has not been amended since being introduced in the House on January 27, 2003. The summary of that version is repeated here.) 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.

Bill titles: 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.

Links for more info on the vote: congress.gov

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