MD withdraws do-not-mail bill; VT, AR introduce bills
Melissa Campanelli
March 12 2007
Do-not-mail bill activity is not slowing as one bill has been
withdrawn and two new ones have been introduced in Vermont and Arkansas.
Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin, a Democrat, withdrew his bill,
SB548, on March 6. The bill, introduced Feb. 2, had nine co-sponsors.
It required the division of consumer protection of the office of the
attorney general to establish and provide for the operation of a
restricted mailing registry similar to the do-not-call registry.
Recently legislators in Colorado and Montana pulled do-not-mail
bills. On March 1, state Rep. Sara Gagliardi, a Democrat, tabled her
bill, the Colorado Junk Mail Opt-Out List Act, HB1303, saying that it
could be introduced at a later time. On Feb. 22, Rep. Franke Wilmer,
a Democrat, killed her bill, the Montana Do-Not-Mail Act, HB718.
Meanwhile, two other states introduced new do-not-mail bills. The
latest is Arkansas. Its bill, HB2725, wa
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