Bill Text: NY A00981 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 981 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the expiration of minutes purchased with prepaid cellular telephone cards; provides that such notification shall be in at least fourteen-point sized print and should include the expiration date or the expiration policy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-01-25 - substituted by s892 [A00981 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00981-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           981

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the expiration of
          minutes purchased with prepaid cellular telephone cards

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

     1    Section  1. Paragraph g of subdivision 2 of section 92-f of the public
     2  service law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2020 relating  to  the
     3  expiration  of  minutes purchased with prepaid cellular telephone cards,
     4  as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2861 and A. 3327, is amended
     5  to read as follows:
     6    g. in the case of a company that  offers  prepaid  cellular  telephone
     7  services  by  means of a prepaid calling card, such prepaid calling card
     8  shall have printed on its face, in conspicuous print of a font [at least
     9  two times larger that any other print printed on such card, and] in bold
    10  face print that is at least [ten-point] fourteen-point sized, the  expi-
    11  ration  date or the expiration policy for the cellular minutes purchased
    12  with the card.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    14  manner  as  a  chapter of the laws of 2020 relating to the expiration of
    15  minutes purchased with prepaid cellular telephone cards, as proposed  in
    16  legislative bills numbers S. 2861 and A. 3327, takes effect.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07185-01-1