Bill Text: NY A00590 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires a call-blocking service to be provided in state contracts that include procurement of a voice service; provides that a voice service provider shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability for failure of a call-blocking service to block a call, or mistakenly blocking a call that should not have been blocked.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - print number 590b [A00590 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00590-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         590--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. STECK, BLANKENBUSH, BUTTENSCHON, BYRNE, COLTON,
          CRUZ, DeSTEFANO, DINOWITZ,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  FRONTUS,  GALEF,  GOTTFRIED,
          GRIFFIN,  HAWLEY, HYNDMAN, MANKTELOW, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, MORINELLO,
          NORRIS, PICHARDO,  RA,  REYES,  ROZIC,  SALKA,  SANTABARBARA,  SAYEGH,
          SIMON,  SMULLEN,  STIRPE,  WALCZYK,  WALSH,  WEPRIN  --  read once and
          referred to the Committee  on  Governmental  Operations  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to requiring software
          that  blocks  automated  calls  to be provided in state contracts that
          include information and communication technologies

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

     1    Section  1.  The  state finance law is amended by adding a new section
     2  149 to read as follows:
     3    § 149. Automated call software. 1. As used in this section:
     4    a. "information and communication technologies"  includes,  but  shall
     5  not  be  limited  to,  any communication device or application including
     6  radio, television, cellular phones, computer and  network  hardware  and
     7  software,  and  satellite  systems  as  well as the various services and
     8  applications  associated  with  them,  such  as  videoconferencing   and
     9  distance learning;
    10    b.  "caller  identification information" means information provided to
    11  an end user by a caller identification service regarding  the  telephone
    12  number  of,  or  other  information regarding the origination of, a call
    13  made using a telecommunications service or voip service;
    14    c.  "caller  identification  service"  means  any  service  or  device
    15  designed to provide the user of the service or device with the telephone
    16  number  of,  or  other  information regarding the origination of, a call

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04063-03-1
        A. 590--A                           2

     1  made using a telecommunications  service  or  voip  service.  Such  term
     2  includes automatic number identification services; and
     3    d.  "voip  service" means any service that: enables real time, two-way
     4  voice communication  originating  from  or  terminating  at  the  user's
     5  location in internet protocol or a successor protocol; utilizes a broad-
     6  band  connection at the user's location; and permits a user to receive a
     7  call that originates on the public switched  telephone  network  and  to
     8  terminate a call to the public switched telephone network.
     9    2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, where a
    10  contract  that includes the procurement of information and communication
    11  technologies is to be awarded by a state  agency,  public  authority  or
    12  municipality, pursuant to a competitive bidding process or a request for
    13  proposal  process,  such contract shall require that any information and
    14  communication technologies furnished to the state or any  of  its  poli-
    15  tical  subdivisions  shall make available software that blocks automated
    16  calls and calls that cause a caller identification service  to  transmit
    17  false  caller identification information to all information and communi-
    18  cation technologies customers. Such software shall be provided  free  of
    19  charge  by  the  awarded contractor to all information and communication
    20  technologies customers.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    22  ing the date it shall have become a law.