15 U.S.C. § 6154 — Reporting requirements

(a) By December 31, 2009, and every two years afterward, the Federal Trade Commission, consulting with the Federal Communications Commission, must report to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The report must state (1) how many consumers put numbers on the registry; (2) how many people paid for registry access and the fee amounts; (3) the registry’s impact from (A) the five-year reregistration rule, (B) new telecommunications technology, and (C) number portability and abandoned numbers; and (4) the impact of the established-business-relationship exception on businesses and consumers.

(b) By December 31, 2009, the Commission, after consulting with the Federal Communications Commission, also had to report to those committees on (1) how effective do-not-call outreach and enforcement were for senior citizens and immigrant communities; (2) how registry exceptions affected businesses and consumers, including registry effectiveness and consumers’ views of it; and (3) how abandoned calls from predictive dialing devices affected enforcement.