Bill Text: NY S08450 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 8450 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Adds telephone numbers to a do-not-call list at the outset of certain telemarketing calls.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-23 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8319C [S08450 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08450-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8450--B

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 2, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Consumer  Protection  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the general business law, in relation to adding tele-
          phone numbers to a do-not-call list at the outset of certain  telemar-
          keting calls

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 399-z of the general business law,
     2  as amended by chapter 239 of the laws of 2017, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    2. No telemarketer or seller shall engage in telemarketing at any time
     5  other  than  between  8:00  A.M.  and  9:00  P.M. at the location of the
     6  customer unless the customer has given his or her express consent to the
     7  call at a different time. Telemarketers shall provide, in  a  clear  and
     8  coherent  manner  using  words with common and everyday meanings, at the
     9  beginning of each telemarketing sales call all of the following informa-
    10  tion, provided that the information set forth in paragraphs a and  b  of
    11  this subdivision shall be given to the customer first:
    12    a.  the  telemarketer's name and the person on whose behalf the solic-
    13  itation is being made, if other than the telemarketer;
    14    b. the [purpose of the telephone  call]  option  to  be  automatically
    15  added  to  the seller's entity specific do-not-call list, as required by
    16  subdivisions seven, eight, and nine of this section;
    17    c. [the identity of the goods or services for  which  a  fee  will  be
    18  charged; and
    19    d.] whether the call is being recorded;
    20    d. the purpose of the telephone call; and
    21    e.  the  identity  of  the  goods  or services for which a fee will be
    22  charged.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    24  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13123-07-2