Bill Text: NJ S995 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates a directory of registered telemarketers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-17 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee [S995 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-S995-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator LINDA R. GREENSTEIN
District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Creates a directory of registered telemarketers.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act requiring the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety to establish a directory of registered telemarketers and supplementing P.L.2003, c.76 (C. 56:8-119 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall establish a directory of telemarketers registered in accordance with section 3 of P.L.2003, c.76 (C.56:8-121). The directory shall contain the name and address of each registered telemarketer and any other information which the director of the division deems appropriate. The information in the directory shall be updated monthly. The division shall make the directory readily accessible to the public by means of a toll-free telephone number and by posting the directory on the division's Internet Web site.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety to establish a directory of telemarketers registered with the division in accordance with New Jersey's laws regulating telemarketers, P.L.2003, c.76 (C.56:8-119 et seq).
The directory will contain the name and address of each registered telemarketer and any other information which the director of the division deems appropriate. The information in the directory will be updated monthly.
The bill requires the division to make the directory readily accessible to the public by means of a toll-free telephone number and by posting the directory on the division's Internet Web site.
The division currently has a directory of registered charities on its Web site and maintains a "Charities Hotline." The division is required by section 14 of P.L.2004, c.16 (C.56:8-149) to provide a toll-free telephone number for consumers making inquiries regarding contractors. This bill would require the division to take similar steps to provide information to consumers who are seeking information regarding telemarketers.
