Bill Text: NY A09442 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Raises the maximum fine for persons who violate the law regulating telemarketing to twenty thousand dollars.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A09442 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09442-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9442
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 3, 2016
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        Introduced  by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection
        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in  relation  to  raising  the
          maximum fine for persons who violate the law regulating telemarketing
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision  12  of  section  399-z  of  the
     2  general  business law, as amended by chapter 369 of the laws of 2012, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    a. Where it is determined after hearing that any person  has  violated
     5  one  or  more  provisions  of this section, the secretary, or any person
     6  deputized or so designated by him or her may assess a fine not to exceed
     7  [eleven] twenty thousand dollars for each violation.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13110-01-5