Assembly Bill A2731

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales call using an automatic dialing-announcing device

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A2731 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§399-z & 399-pp, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A8544

2023-A2731 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls using an automatic dialing-announcing device to any person in the state during a declared state of emergency or disaster emergency.

2023-A2731 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2731
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the general business law, in relation to prohibiting
   unsolicited telemarketing sales calls using an  automatic  dialing-an-
   nouncing device

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5-a of section 399-z of  the  general  business
 law,  as added by chapter 680 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
 follows:
   5-a. It shall be unlawful for any telemarketer doing business in  this
 state to knowingly make an unsolicited telemarketing sales call USING AN
 AUTOMATIC  DIALING-ANNOUNCING  DEVICE  AS  DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF
 SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE-P OF  THIS  ARTICLE
 to  any person in a county, city, town or village under a declared state
 of emergency or disaster emergency as described in sections  twenty-four
 or twenty-eight of the executive law.
   §  2.  Paragraph  f  of subdivision 7 of section 399-pp of the general
 business law, as added by chapter 680 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
 read as follows:
   f. knowingly make an unsolicited telemarketing  sales  call  USING  AN
 AUTOMATIC  DIALING-ANNOUNCING  DEVICE  AS  DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF
 SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE-P OF  THIS  ARTICLE
 to  any person in a county, city, town or village under a declared state
 of emergency or disaster emergency as described in sections  twenty-four
 or twenty-eight of the executive law.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05346-01-3

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