More than a dozen members of Congress reached out to Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to lobby on behalf of credit unions, which are seeking an exemption from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
The 14 members of Congress wrote Pai a letter last month, endorsing the proposal, which was submitted by the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) last year.
Pai’s letters back to each of the 14 were published by the FCC on Friday. Copies of the letters can be accessed here.
CUNA is asking the FCC to exempt credit unions from the prior express consent provisions of the TCPA when making calls to members with whom the credit union has an established business relationship or
where the call or text message is in fact free to the receiving party.
The FCC received more than 150 comments on the request.
In the letters, Pai offers no insights into what decision the FCC will make on the proposal, or a timeline outlining when a decision will be made. The letter sent to Pai endorsed CUNA’s petition, saying that if the changes are not made, “an increasing number of credit unions will continue to be impeded from sending important financial information to their members because of both the lack of clarity in how to comply and out of fear of excessively costly litigation, due to the uncertainty surrounding the TCPA.”
