Bill Text: NY S04617 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4617

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
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        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