Bill Text: NY A01371 | 2013-2014 | 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 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A01371 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01371-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1371
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CLARK,
         COOK, GALEF, SWEENEY, WEISENBERG -- 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-g to read as follows:
    3    S 92-G. 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    S  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.
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