COMMON NAME
A bill to prohibit senders of unsolicited commercial electronic mail from disguising the source of their messages, to give consumers the choice to cease receiving a sender's unsolicited commercial electronic mail messages, and for other purposes.

SUMMARY AS OF:
3/27/2001--Introduced.
Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2001, or the CAN SPAM Act of 2001 - Amends Federal criminal law to subject to a fine or imprisonment the transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail message containing fraudulent routing information accompanied by header information that is materially or intentionally false or misleading.
Mandates inclusion of identifier, opt-out, and physical address in unsolicited commercial electronic mail.
Confers enforcement powers for violations of this Act upon: (1) upon the Federal Trade Commission; (2) designated Federal agencies; and (3) the States.
Permits treble damages in a civil action brought by a provider of Internet access service adversely affected by a violation of this Act.

SPONSERING SENATORS
Sen Wyden, Ron - 3/27/2001 Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. - 3/27/2001
Sen Landrieu, Mary L. - 3/27/2001 Sen Torricelli, Robert G. - 3/27/2001
Sen Breaux, John B. - 3/27/2001 Sen Murkowski, Frank H. - 3/27/2001
Sen Allen, George - 4/2/2001 Sen Snowe, Olympia J. - 5/3/2001
Sen Thomas, Craig - 9/26/2001 Sen Hutchinson, Tim - 2/25/2002
Sen Stevens, Ted - 5/10/2002

STATUS:
3/27/2001:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2995-2998)
5/17/2002:
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

It is appalling that no finalizing action has been taken on this issue in over a year.

We, the Sovereign Citizens of the United States of America, implore you to take final action on this bill and approve it.