Bill Text: NY A06382 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes a parent access to retrieve and view text messages on a minor child's telephone and authorizes a telephone company to charge an additional fee for such access.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A06382 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06382-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6382 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TITUS, COOK, MOSLEY, COLTON, STECK -- Multi-Spon- sored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to authorizing a parent access to retrieve and view text messages on a minor child's telephone The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 399-dd of the general business law, as added by 2 chapter 487 of the laws of 2006, is renumbered section 676 and a new 3 section 677 is added to read as follows: 4 § 677. Contract option to view child's text messages. 1. A contract 5 between a telephone company and a customer shall offer the customer the 6 option to retrieve and view text messages that are sent from or received 7 by the customer's minor child's telephone. The contract may include an 8 additional fee for this option. 9 2. For the purposes of this section, the terms "telephone company", 10 "telephone", and "customer" shall have the same meaning as in subdivi- 11 sion one of section six hundred seventy-six of this article. 12 § 2. Sections 676 and 677 of the general business law, section 676 as 13 renumbered and section 677 as added by section one of this act, are 14 designated article 32-A and a new article heading is added to read as 15 follows: 16 TELEPHONE RECORDS AND ACCESS 17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06666-01-9