Bill Text: NY A00083 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Raises the maximum fine for persons who violate the law regulating telemarketing to twenty thousand dollars.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-01-11 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [A00083 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00083-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           83

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  QUART,  BLANKENBUSH,  OTIS  -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in  relation  to  raising  the
          maximum fine for persons who violate the law regulating telemarketing

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision  14  of  section  399-z  of  the
     2  general  business law, as amended by chapter 572 of the laws of 2019, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    a. Where it is determined after hearing that any person  has  violated
     5  one  or  more  provisions  of this section, the secretary, or any person
     6  deputized or so designated by him or her may assess a fine not to exceed
     7  [eleven] twenty thousand dollars for each violation.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01304-01-1