Bill Text: NY S08043 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Authorizes cellular phone companies to provide notice of bills to third parties at the request of the customer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-03-01 - SIGNED CHAP.99 [S08043 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08043-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8043

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
          cellular  phone  companies to provide notice of bills to third parties
          at the request of the customer

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  393-f of the general business law, as added by a
     2  chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public service law, the general
     3  business law and the public  authorities  law  relating  to  third-party
     4  notification,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 406-A and A.
     5  1368-A, is amended to read as follows:
     6    § 393-f. Voluntary third-party notification.  1.  Every  telegraph  or
     7  telephone  corporation,  cable  television  corporation, [cellular phone
     8  company,] or municipality shall permit a residential customer to  desig-
     9  nate a third party to receive notice of the total amount due or past due
    10  on  all  bills, the amounts of any payments paid by or on behalf of such
    11  residential customer, and copies of all notices relating to  termination
    12  of  service  and  notices  relating to collection of amounts due sent to
    13  such residential customer, provided  that  the  designated  third  party
    14  indicates in writing a willingness to receive such notices, and provided
    15  further,  where  a  residential  customer opts for third-party notifica-
    16  tions, such residential customer may opt to  continue  to  receive  such
    17  notices.
    18    2.  [Every telegraph or telephone corporation, cable television corpo-
    19  ration, cellular phone company, or municipality shall permit a landlord,
    20  upon written request of both the landlord and  tenant,  to  designate  a
    21  third party to be notified of all requests for discontinuance of service
    22  to  units  occupied  by  such tenant, provided that the designated third
    23  party indicates in writing a willingness to receive  such  notices,  and
    24  provided further, where the tenant and landlord customers opt for third-
    25  party  notifications,  such  tenant  and  landlord  customers may opt to
    26  continue to receive such notices] Every  cellular  phone  company,  upon
    27  request  by  a customer, shall permit such customer to designate a third

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02369-03-4
        S. 8043                             2

     1  party to receive notice in  accordance  with  subdivision  one  of  this
     2  section.  Such  notice shall comply with all requirements related to the
     3  protection of customer proprietary network information contained in  the
     4  federal communications act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 222) and any federal regu-
     5  lations adopted under that authority.
     6    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
     7  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public service law,
     8  the general business law and the  public  authorities  law  relating  to
     9  third-party  notification,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
    10  406-A and A. 1368-A, takes effect.