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Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Unsolicited Communications) Bill 2019

Type	Private
Originating house	Senate
Status	Not Proceeding
Sponsor	GRIFF, Sen Stirling

Summary

Amends the: Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 to require that voice calls communicating an electoral matter to a person must identify the use of any actors at the beginning of the call; Do Not Call Register Act 2006 to enable consumers who register on the Do Not Call Register to opt out of receiving phone calls from charities; Spam Act 2003 to require political parties to provide an unsubscribe function for all unsolicited electronic communications containing political content; and Telecommunications Act 1997 to make consequential amendments.

Progress of bill

For committee reference information, please see the Notes section at the end of this page.

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	13/02/19
Second reading moved	13/02/19
Lapsed at end of Parliament	01/07/19
Restored to Notice Paper	04/07/19
Second reading moved	25/11/19
Second reading debate	25/11/19
Lapsed at end of Parliament	25/07/22