---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 6154"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "6154"
heading: "Reporting requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/6154"
units:
  - "Chapter 87A — National Do-Not-Call Registry"
---

# §6154. Reporting requirements

- (a) **Biennial reports—** Not later than December 31, 2009, and biennially thereafter, the Federal Trade Commission, in consultation with the Federal Communications Commission, shall transmit a report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce that includes—
  - (1) the number of consumers who have placed their telephone numbers on the registry;
  - (2) the number of [persons](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) paying fees for access to the registry and the amount of such fees;
  - (3) the impact on the “do-not-call” registry of—
    - (A) the 5-year reregistration requirement;
    - (B) new telecommunications technology; and
    - (C) number portability and abandoned telephone numbers; and
  - (4) the impact of the established business relationship exception on businesses and consumers.
- (b) **Additional report—** Not later than December 31, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission, in consultation with the Federal Communications Commission, shall transmit a report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce that includes—
  - (1) the effectiveness of do-not-call outreach and enforcement efforts with regard to senior citizens and immigrant communities;
  - (2) the impact of the exceptions to the do-not-call registry on businesses and consumers, including an analysis of the effectiveness of the registry and consumer perceptions of the registry’s effectiveness; and
  - (3) the impact of abandoned calls made by predictive dialing [devices](/usc/15/55.md?p=d) on do-not-call enforcement.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–10, § 4, Mar. 11, 2003, 117 Stat. 557; Pub. L. 110–188, § 3, Feb. 15, 2008, 122 Stat. 637.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2008—Pub. L. 110–188 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section related to reports on regulatory coordination between Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission and reports on “do-not-call” registry for fiscal years 2003 through 2007.