Bill Text: NY A02230 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to telecommunication companies blocking certain numbers.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 37-10)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-13 - reported referred to rules [A02230 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02230-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2230--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, BUTTENSCHON, LAVINE, ENGLEBRIGHT, McDO- NALD, CYMBROWITZ, D'URSO, GRIFFIN, GOTTFRIED, ARROYO, DINOWITZ, JAFFEE, STERN, CRUZ, ZEBROWSKI, CRESPO, COLTON, RIVERA, BURKE, LUPAR- DO, JEAN-PIERRE, THIELE, BRABENEC, MONTESANO, SCHMITT, BYRNE, REILLY, RAIA, SMULLEN, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to telecommuni- cation companies blocking certain numbers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 399-z-1 to read as follows: 3 § 399-z-1. Telecommunication companies blocking certain numbers. 1. As 4 used in this section, the following terms shall have the following mean- 5 ings: 6 a. "caller identification information" means information provided by a 7 caller identification service regarding the telephone number and the 8 name of the person calling; 9 b. "caller identification service" means a service that allows a tele- 10 phone subscriber to have the telephone number, and, where available, 11 name of the calling party transmitted contemporaneously with the tele- 12 phone call, and displayed on a device in or connected to the subscrib- 13 er's telephone; 14 c. "pooling administrator" means the thousands-block pooling adminis- 15 trator as identified in 47 C.F.R. § 52.20; and 16 d. "provider" means a telecommunication company that provides voice 17 communications services to customers in this state. 18 2. Consistent with authorization provided by federal law and rules of 19 the federal communications commission or its successors: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01125-02-9A. 2230--A 2 1 a. providers shall block a voice call when the subscriber to which the 2 originating number is assigned has requested that calls purporting to 3 originate from that number be blocked because the number is used for 4 inbound calls only; and 5 b. providers shall block calls originating from the following numbers: 6 (i) a number that is not a valid North American numbering plan number; 7 (ii) a valid North American numbering plan number that is not allo- 8 cated to a provider by the North American numbering plan administrator 9 or the pooling administrator; and 10 (iii) a valid North American numbering plan number that is allocated 11 to a provider by the North American number plan administrator or pooling 12 administrator, but is unused, so long as the provider blocking the calls 13 is the allocatee of the number and confirms that the number is unused or 14 has obtained verification from the allocatee that the number is unused 15 at the time of the blocking. 16 c. providers shall not block a voice call if the call is an emergency 17 call placed to 911. 18 d. providers shall not block a voice call to a subscriber who has 19 requested that no inbound calls be blocked. 20 3. For purposes of blocking calls from certain originating numbers as 21 authorized in this section, a provider may rely on caller identification 22 service information to determine the originating number. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
