HJR111 Summary

• Urges Congress to strengthen federal laws and enhance prosecutions relating to unsolicited telephone communications and telemarketing fraud.

• Identifies that thousands of Americans lose money annually to illegal telephone activity, fraud, scams, and unwanted solicitations that disproportionately target elderly and vulnerable consumers.

• Criticizes the Telephone Consumers Protection Act of 1991 as offering limited protections and placing a heavy burden on consumers to report violations and pursue complaints.

• Notes that unwanted calls often originate using publicly available information from the Internet, that FCC complaint processing takes weeks, and that the FCC may be overburdened by complaint volume.

• Directs copies of the resolution be provided to all Alabama Congressional delegation members with a request to enter it in the Congressional Record.