Bill Text: NY A08246 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8246 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Exempts realtors from the prohibition against placing unsolicited telemarketing sales calls during a state of emergency or disaster emergency; allows real estate brokers, associate real estate brokers, real estate salesmen, real estate saleswomen or office managers to knowingly make unsolicited telemarketing sales calls during a declared state of emergency or disaster emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - held for consideration in consumer affairs and protection [A08246 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08246-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8246

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 25, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. GOODELL, WALCZYK -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to exempting real-
          tors  from  the  prohibition against placing unsolicited telemarketing
          sales calls during a state of emergency or disaster emergency

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5-a of section 399-z of the general business
     2  law, as added by chapter 680 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    5-a.  It shall be unlawful for any telemarketer doing business in this
     5  state to knowingly make an unsolicited telemarketing sales call  to  any
     6  person  in  a  county,  city,  town or village under a declared state of
     7  emergency or disaster emergency as described in sections twenty-four  or
     8  twenty-eight  of the executive law.  This subdivision shall not apply to
     9  a real estate broker, associate real estate broker, real  estate  sales-
    10  man,  real  estate  saleswoman  or office manager, as defined in section
    11  four hundred forty of the real property law, unless the  declared  state
    12  of emergency expressly prohibits such telemarketing sales calls.
    13    §  2.  Paragraph  f  of subdivision 7 of section 399-pp of the general
    14  business law, as added by chapter 680 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
    15  read as follows:
    16    f. knowingly make an  unsolicited  telemarketing  sales  call  to  any
    17  person  in  a  county,  city,  town or village under a declared state of
    18  emergency or disaster emergency as described in sections twenty-four  or
    19  twenty-eight  of the executive law.  This subdivision shall not apply to
    20  a real estate broker, associate real estate broker, real  estate  sales-
    21  man,  real  estate  saleswoman  or office manager, as defined in section
    22  four hundred forty of the real property law, unless the  declared  state
    23  of emergency expressly prohibits such telemarketing sales calls.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11973-02-1