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Meeting Planner Industry Events - Business Meeting Planner Events - Corporate Show Events: "Associations Win Big Under New Federal Fax Law

JULY 12, 2005 -- Washington -- President Bush signed a bill over the weekend that allows organizations to send faxes to their members and clients without first obtaining written approval.

The so-called 'established business relationship' provision to the Junk Fax Prevention Act represents a major victory for associations, which feared that previous federal regulations would stymie their efforts to communicate with members via fax about membership renewal and convention registration.

Those regulations contained what is commonly called an opt-in requirement, in which fax recipients must first provide written approval before organizations can send them unsolicited faxes that could be considered commercial in nature."