Bill Text: NY S07595 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits pay-per-call prize schemes from charging more for the call than that charged by a telephone corporation regulated by the appropriate regulatory commission for the same call.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-21 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4365A [S07595 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S07595-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7595--A
I N S E N A T E
June 6, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. FUSCHILLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection --
committee discharged and said bill committed to the Committee on Rules
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to restricting
pay-per-call services
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 369-ee of the general business law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
3 2-A. PRIZE CLAIMS BY PAY-PER-CALL SERVICES. IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR
4 ANY PERSON, FIRM OR CORPORATION TO OFFER A CONSUMER A PRIZE, IF IN ORDER
5 TO CLAIM THE PRIZE, THE CONSUMER MUST CALL A PAY-PER-CALL SERVICE WHERE
6 THE CHARGE FOR SUCH PAY-PER-CALL SERVICE IS GREATER THAN THE SERVICE
7 CHARGE AUTHORIZED BY THE APPROPRIATE REGULATORY COMMISSION. AS USED IN
8 THIS SUBDIVISION "PAY-PER-CALL SERVICE" MEANS ANY TELEPHONE SERVICE FOR
9 WHICH THE CALLING PARTY IS ASSESSED, BY VIRTUE OF COMPLETING THE CALL, A
10 CHARGE FOR WHICH THE CALLER PAYS A PER-CALL OR PER-TIME CHARGE.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08552-02-2
