The United States Senate expects to pass before Thanksgiving the House anti-spam bill, which would lead to the creation of the first national law aimed at slowing the glut of unsolicited commercial e-mail. The White House indicated over the weekend President Bush will sign the bill and its effective date will be Jan. 1, 2004.

That date is important to e-mail marketers and publishers because the bill pre-empts 37 existing state anti-spam bills, including the recently passed California law that carries much tougher restrictions than the House bill. The California law goes so far as to effectively ban ad-supported e-mail newsletters.
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