Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 30, 2014 |
advanced to third reading cal.840 |
May 28, 2014 |
reported |
May 13, 2014 |
print number 8984a |
May 13, 2014 |
amend (t) and recommit to consumer affairs and protection |
Mar 06, 2014 |
referred to consumer affairs and protection |
Assembly Bill A8984A
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
TITONE
Archive: Last Bill Status - On Floor Calendar
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Bill Amendments
co-Sponsors
Walter T. Mosley
Steven Otis
Jeffrey Dinowitz
William Magnarelli
multi-Sponsors
David Buchwald
Vivian Cook
Clifford Crouch
Joseph Giglio
2013-A8984 - Details
2013-A8984 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8984 I N A S S E M B L Y March 6, 2014 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the installa- tion of a technological solution on an advanced mobile communication device THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that: (a) According to the federal communications commission (FCC), one in three robberies in the United States involves the theft of a mobile communications device, making it the number one property crime in the country. Many of these robberies often turn violent with some resulting in the loss of life. (b) The FCC estimates that between thirty to forty percent of United States street theft involves a mobile device. In fact, more than forty percent of all robberies in New York city involve smartphones and other cell phones. (c) Consumer reports projects that one point six million Americans had their smartphones stolen in 2012. (d) According to the New York Times, one hundred thirteen smartphones are lost or stolen every minute in the United States. (e) Major cities are home to the highest concentrations of cell phone theft, and officials in New York and California have been pushing for a cellphone kill switch in those states since April 2012. According to New York state attorney general Eric Schneiderman, the United States senate proposal would force the mobile industry to "stop dragging its feet and join us in protecting consumers." (f) In April of 2012, U.S. senator Charles Schumer, D-New York, and New York city police commissioner Ray Kelly announced that the major U.S. cell phone carriers and the federal communications commission have agreed to set up a national database to track reported stolen phones. Senator Schumer also introduced a bill called the mobile device theft deterrence act, which proposes a five-year prison sentence for tampering with the ID numbers of a stolen cell phone. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
co-Sponsors
Walter T. Mosley
Steven Otis
Jeffrey Dinowitz
William Magnarelli
multi-Sponsors
David Buchwald
Vivian Cook
Clifford Crouch
Joseph Giglio
2013-A8984A (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-A8984A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8984--A I N A S S E M B L Y March 6, 2014 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TITONE, MOSLEY, OTIS, DINOWITZ, MAGNARELLI, McDO- NOUGH, DiPIETRO, SCARBOROUGH, GALEF, SEPULVEDA, SIMOTAS -- Multi-Spon- sored by -- M. of A. BUCHWALD, COOK, CROUCH, GIGLIO, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, HIKIND, MARKEY, SCHIMEL, STECK, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to smart phone device "kill switch" THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that: (a) According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), one in three robberies in the United States involves the theft of a mobile device, making it the number one property crime in the country. Many of these robberies often turn violent with some resulting in the loss of life. (b) The FCC estimates that between thirty to forty percent of United States street theft involves a mobile device. In fact, more than forty percent of all robberies in New York city involve smartphones and other cell phones. (c) Consumer reports projects that 1.6 million Americans had their smartphones stolen in 2012. (d) According to the New York Times, one hundred thirteen smartphones are lost or stolen every minute in the United States. (e) Major cities are home to the highest concentrations of cell phone theft, and officials in New York and California have been pushing for a cellphone kill switch in those states since April 2012. According to New York state attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, the United States Senate proposal would force the mobile industry to "stop dragging its feet and join us in protecting consumers." (f) In April of 2012, U.S. senator Charles Schumer, D-New York, and New York city police commissioner Ray Kelly announced that the major U.S. cell phone carriers and the Federal Communications Commission have EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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