Bill Text: NY A08544 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls using an automatic dialing-announcing device to any person in the state during a declared state of emergency or disaster emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A08544 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08544-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8544

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 13, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the general business law, in relation to prohibiting
          unsolicited telemarketing sales calls using an  automatic  dialing-an-
          nouncing device

          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 using an
     6  automatic  dialing-announcing  device  as  described in paragraph (a) of
     7  subdivision one of section three hundred ninety-nine-p of  this  article
     8  to  any person in a county, city, town or village under a declared state
     9  of emergency or disaster emergency as described in sections  twenty-four
    10  or twenty-eight of the executive law.
    11    §  2.  Paragraph  f  of subdivision 7 of section 399-pp of the general
    12  business law, as added by chapter 680 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
    13  read as follows:
    14    f. knowingly make an unsolicited telemarketing  sales  call  using  an
    15  automatic  dialing-announcing  device  as  described in paragraph (a) of
    16  subdivision one of section three hundred ninety-nine-p of  this  article
    17  to  any person in a county, city, town or village under a declared state
    18  of emergency or disaster emergency as described in sections  twenty-four
    19  or twenty-eight of the executive law.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13405-02-1