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Save Affordable Connectivity Program
Date: Mon, January 29, 2024
If Congress doesn’t act quickly to Save the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) families who receive free and reduced cost school lunch, veterans, and many other low-income consumers could lose their internet access. The ACP allows low-income students to learn online and others to receive medical care via telehealth. But these funds will run out in April.
You can help. You can tell your lawmakers to save the ACP. There’s a bill before Congress—the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act (HR 6929/S 3565)—that would provide the funds to extend the program through 2024.
Please urge Congress to help financially-strapped consumers keep their internet access.
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Contact Congress
Date: Mon, April 18, 2022
You can use Consumer Action's free tool (Voter Voice) to email your elected officials in Congress and the Senate.
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Write letters to the editor
Date: Mon, April 18, 2022
Do you ever feel like sounding off? Or is there a consumer issue that you feel demands wider attention? Consumer Action can help you identify and reach out to news outlets and editors on your home turf.
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S 1786: Rescuing Every Contributor from Unwanted Recurrences (RECUR) Act
Sponsor: Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on May 24, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s1786
This legislation would ban political campaigns from automatically opting donors into recurring contributions through pre-checked boxes on online forms. A New York Times investigation found that online operatives have duped both GOP and Democratic voters, many elderly, into providing huge recurring donations.
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HR 4395: The Payment Choice Act
Sponsor: Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ) on Jul 9, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr4395
To prohibit retail businesses from refusing cash payments, and for other purposes.
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S 2072: The UNSUBSCRIBE Act of 2021
Sponsor: Brian Schatz (D-HI), John Thune (R-SD), Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and John Kennedy (R-LA) on June 16, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s2072
Customers who have signed up for a free trial of online services or publications would be notified when the free period is ending, and reminded that they must opt out to avoid being billed for a full-price subscription.
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S 1260: COOL (country-of-origin labeling) Online Act
Sponsor: Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) on April 20, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s1260
The COOL Act, a standalone bill introduced in 2020, is part of the United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021. This provision would ensure that consumers can learn where the products they purchase online are manufactured.
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S 1896: Algorithmic Justice and Online Transparency Act
Sponsor: Ed Markey (D-MA) on May 27, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s1896
he bill prohibits discrimination based on protected classes for algorithmic processes on online platforms, requires online platform companies to create and maintain documentation about their algorithms for review by the FTC, and sets out a standard for what safe and effective algorithmic processes would be.
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S 1720: Postal Service Reform Act
Sponsor: Gary Peters (D-MI) on May 19, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s1720
A bill to provide stability to and enhance the services of the United States Postal Service, and for other purposes.
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HR 166: Fair Lending for All Act
Sponsor: Al Green (D-TX) on May 12, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr166
To establish an Office of Fair Lending Testing to test for compliance with the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, to strengthen the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and to provide for criminal penalties for violating such Act, and for other purposes.
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HR 3076: Postal Service Reform Act (House)
Sponsor: Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) on May 11, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr3076
This bill addresses the finances and operations of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). The bill repeals the requirement that the USPS annually prepay future retirement health benefits.
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HR 3009: Improving Language Access in Mortgage Servicing Act
Sponsor: Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) on May 7, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr3009
To amend the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to establish language access requirements for creditors and servicers, and for other purposes.
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HR 2954: Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021
Sponsor: Richard Neal (D-MA) on May 4, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr2954
To increase retirement savings, simplify and clarify retirement plan rules, and for other purposes.
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S 1368: American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2021 (Senate)
Sponsor: Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Apr 26, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s1368
A bill to make housing more affordable, and for other purposes.
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HR 2547: Comprehensive Debt Collection Improvement Act
Sponsor: Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Apr 15, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr2547
To expand and enhance consumer, student, servicemember, and small business protections with respect to debt collection practices, and for other purposes.
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S 505: (Senate) Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act
Sponsor: Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Mar 1, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s505
This bill prohibits a predispute arbitration agreement from being valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of an employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights dispute. (Link to support letter.)
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S 355: COVID–19 Medical Debt Collection Relief Act
Sponsor: Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) on Feb 22, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s355
A bill to provide immediate relief for patients from certain medical debt collection efforts during and immediately after the COVID-19 public health emergency.
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HR 1023: Justice for Student Borrowers Act
Sponsor: Mary Scanlon (D-PA) on Feb 11, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr1023
This bill prohibits a predispute arbitration agreement from being valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of a dispute relating to a private education loan.
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HR 953: Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act
Sponsor: Henry “Hank” Johnson Jr. (D-GA) on Feb 11, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr963
This bill prohibits a predispute arbitration agreement from being valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of an employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights dispute.
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HR 773: Medical Debt Relief Act of 2021 (House)
Sponsor: Katie Porter on Feb 3, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr773
To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to institute a 1-year waiting period before medical debt will be reported on a consumer's credit report and to remove paid-off and settled medical debts from credit reports that have been fully paid or settled, to amend the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act…