Bill Text: NY A00117 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits telemarketers from knowingly placing unsolicited telemarketing sales calls during a state of emergency or disaster emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-18 - signed chap.680 [A00117 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00117-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         117--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection -- reported and referred to the
          Committee  on  Codes  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          telemarketers  from  knowingly placing unsolicited telemarketing sales
          calls during a state of emergency or disaster emergency

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  399-z  of the general business law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
     3    5-a. It shall be unlawful for any telemarketer doing business in  this
     4  state  to  knowingly make an unsolicited telemarketing sales call to any
     5  person in a county, city, town or village  under  a  declared  state  of
     6  emergency  or disaster emergency as described in sections twenty-four or
     7  twenty-eight of the executive law.
     8    § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 399-pp of the general  business  law  is
     9  amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
    10    f.  knowingly  make  an  unsolicited  telemarketing  sales call to any
    11  person in a county, city, town or village  under  a  declared  state  of
    12  emergency  or disaster emergency as described in sections twenty-four or
    13  twenty-eight of the executive law.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01070-02-9