STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 117--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ 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