Robo COP Act

This Act may be cited as the Robo Calls Off Phones Act or the Robo COP Act.

(a) Prohibited. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Federal Trade Commission shall revise the do-not-call registry provisions of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (part 310 of title 16, Code of Federal Regulations) to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to any telephone number listed on that registry.

(b) Politically-Oriented recorded message calls defined. In this section, the term politically-oriented recorded message telephone call means any outbound telephone call—

(1) in which a person is not available to speak with the person answering the call, and the call instead plays a recorded message; and

(2) the—

(A) purpose of which is to promote, advertise, campaign, or solicit donations, for or against any political candidate or regarding any political issue; or

(B) recorded message includes the name of a political candidate.