Bill Text: NY A00159 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires any telephone service provider to furnish a toll-free consumer service number for consumers offered or provided unsolicited telephone services without a charge for a specified period of use time by means of a telephone calling card number, account number, electronic serial number or personal identification number when a charge, fee or payment is later required by the consumer for termination or continued use of the unsolicited telephone service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A00159 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00159-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           159
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
          GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Consumer  Affairs
          and Protection
        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring tele-
          phone service providers to furnish a toll-free consumer service number
          for consumers offered unsolicited services
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  92-i to read as follows:
     3    § 92-i. Toll-free consumer service number for consumers offered  unso-
     4  licited  services.  Any  person, firm, corporation, partnership, associ-
     5  ation, company or business offering or providing to a consumer  unsolic-
     6  ited  telephone  services  without  charge for a specified period of use
     7  time or for a specified value of use time by means of a telephone  call-
     8  ing  card  number,  account number, electronic serial number or personal
     9  identification number when a charge,  fee  or  payment  is  subsequently
    10  required  by  the consumer for termination or continued use of the unso-
    11  licited telephone service shall furnish  a  toll-free  consumer  service
    12  number  to all such consumers which a consumer can use to obtain answers
    13  to questions, information on the rates, information on terms  or  condi-
    14  tions, and for resolution of a billing or service complaint.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01893-01-9