Bill Text: NY A03327 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that prepaid cellular telephone cards have the expiration date of the minutes purchased printed on the card in conspicuous print.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-6)
Status: (Passed) 2020-12-15 - APPROVAL MEMO.40 [A03327 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03327-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3327 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the expiration of minutes purchased with prepaid cellular telephone cards The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs e and f of subdivision 2 of section 92-f of the 2 public service law, as added by chapter 651 of the laws of 1999, are 3 amended and a new paragraph g is added to read as follows: 4 e. any expiration date or expiration policy; [and] 5 f. instructions for use of the card[.]; and 6 g. in the case of a company that offers prepaid cellular telephone 7 services by means of a prepaid calling card, such prepaid calling card 8 shall have printed on its face, in conspicuous print of a font at least 9 two times larger that any other print printed on such card, and in bold 10 face print that is at least ten-point sized, the expiration date for the 11 cellular minutes purchased with the card. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 13 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04798-01-9
