Bill Text: NY S08032 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires businesses which provide for someone to spoof a telephone number to keep records of the phone calls placed with their services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-20 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S08032 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08032-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8032

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- 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 requiring busi-
          nesses which provide for someone to spoof a telephone number  to  keep
          certain records

          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-rr to read as follows:
     3    § 399-rr. Telephone number spoofing recordkeeping. 1. For the purposes
     4  of this section, "spoofing of a telephone number" shall mean having  the
     5  caller information displayed on a caller identification device be infor-
     6  mation  other  than  that  of  the actual telephone number being used to
     7  place the call.
     8    2. Every business which provides  for  the  spoofing  of  a  telephone
     9  number  shall  keep  a  record  of  the  calls placed using its services
    10  including, but not limited to:
    11    (a) the phone number that would be displayed on the caller identifica-
    12  tion device of the person receiving the phone call;
    13    (b) the telephone number or internet protocol address  of  the  device
    14  placing the telephone call; and
    15    (c) the time, date, and duration of the telephone call.
    16    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13936-01-1
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