Bill Text: NY S01406 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires wireless telephone companies that offer shared or family plans to allow victims of domestic violence to be released from the account without penalty in instances of domestic violence.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-24 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S01406 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01406-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1406--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 12, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PARKER, HASSELL-THOMPSON, LATIMER, PERALTA, RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection -- recommitted to the Committee on Consumer Protection in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring the release of individuals from shared or family wireless telephone plans in instances of domestic violence 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-cccc to read as follows: 3 § 399-cccc. Wireless telephone services; domestic violence victims. 4 Every provider of wireless telephone service, as defined in paragraph 5 (b) of subdivision one of section twelve hundred twenty-five-c of the 6 vehicle and traffic law, shall allow a person who is under a shared 7 phone plan contract with such provider and who is a victim of domestic 8 violence involving another person under such shared phone plan contract, 9 to opt-out of such contract without charge when such person requests to 10 opt-out in writing and provides to such provider of wireless telephone 11 service any of the following documents, which shall relate to such 12 domestic violence, within six months of the document's issuance: (a) a 13 valid domestic violence incident report form, as such term is defined in 14 subdivision fifteen of section eight hundred thirty-seven of the execu- 15 tive law; (b) a valid police report; (c) a valid order of protection; 16 (d) a signed affidavit from a licensed medical or mental health care 17 provider, employee of a court acting within the scope of his or her 18 employment, social worker, a rape crisis counselor, as defined in 19 section forty-five hundred ten of the civil practice law and rules, or 20 advocate acting on behalf of an agency that assists domestic violence EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01734-02-6