Bill Text: NY A00061 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-02-13 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [A00061 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00061-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           61

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH, SEAWRIGHT, GALLAGHER, SILLITTI, LEMONDES,
          STIRPE  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs
          and 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.
                                                                   LBD01783-01-3