Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that allows telephone service subscribers to opt out of receiving telephone directories.

Highlights:

• Requires that with respect to any telephone directory distributed by the telephone corporation or one of its affiliates that each telephone corporation shall do all of the following (Sec. 1):
• allow any telephone service subscriber to opt out of receiving a telephone directory;
• not deliver a telephone directory to any subscriber who has opted out of delivery until the subscriber requests that delivery be resumed; and -provide on the front cover of its telephone directory in clear language a telephone number or web address for a subscriber to a submit a request to opt out of delivery of future telephone directories along with a statement that the directory can be recycled.

• Requires that any third party vendor that distributes telephone directories comply with the same regulations regarding telephone directories that apply to telephone companies (Sec. 1).

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