Bill Text: NY S04617 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Raises the maximum fine for persons who violate the law regulating telemarketing to twenty thousand dollars.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-01 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4456 [S04617 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S04617-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4617 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to raising the maximum fine for persons who violate the law regulating telemarketing The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 14 of section 399-z of the 2 general business law, as amended by chapter 572 of the laws of 2019, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 a. Where it is determined after hearing that any person has violated 5 one or more provisions of this section, the secretary, or any person 6 deputized or so designated by him or her may assess a fine not to exceed 7 [eleven] twenty thousand dollars for each violation. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05489-01-3