To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide for the establishment of a notification system under which individuals may elect not to receive mailings related to skill contests or sweepstakes, and for other purposes.

Summary

Declares that matter otherwise legally acceptable in the mails is nonmailable, shall not be carried or delivered by mail, and shall be disposed of as the Postal Service directs, if it: (1) is a skill contest or sweepstakes addressed to an individual who made an election to be excluded from all mailing lists used by promoters of skill contests or sweepstakes by mailing a removal request form to the notification system established under this Act; or (2) is in noncompliance with the promoter requirements of this Act. Requires any promoter who mails a skill contest or sweepstakes to: (1) provide with each mailing a clear and conspicuous statement that includes the address or toll- free telephone number of such notification system and states that it can be used to prohibit the mailing of any skill contest or sweepstakes to such individual; and (2) establish and maintain a notification system that provides for any individual or other duly authorized person to notify the system of the individual's election to have his or her name and address excluded from all lists of names and addresses used by that promoter to mail such material. Prohibits the commercial use of any list of names and addresses used, maintained, or created by the system. Establishes civil penalties for: (1) persons who violate the prohibition; and (2) promoters who recklessly mail such nonmailable matter or fail to comply substantially with the notification system requirements.

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  Introduced in House · EN · 3 August 1999

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