Wisconsin Assembly to take up ban on text solicitations

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Assembly is set to take up a bill that would extend no-call prohibitions to text messages.

Right now, telephone solicitors are banned from calling numbers people place on Wisconsin's no-call list. The ban doesn't include nonprofit organizations, calls made in response to a request for solicitation or to a solicitor's current customers.

The bipartisan bill would bar solicitors from sending texts to numbers on the no-call list. The measure passed the Assembly's consumer protection committee on a 7-0 vote last week.

The full Assembly is scheduled to take up the bill during Tuesday's floor session.

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