Bill Text: NY S01826 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-23 - referred to governmental operations [S01826 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01826-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            Cal. No. 1124

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Finance  --  committee
          discharged and said bill committed to the Committee on Procurement and
          Contracts  -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
          report, amended on first  report,  ordered  to  a  second  report  and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report

        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
    17  made using a telecommunications  service  or  voip  service.  Such  term
    18  includes automatic number identification services; and
    19    d.  "voip  service" means any service that: enables real time, two-way
    20  voice communication  originating  from  or  terminating  at  the  user's

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  location in internet protocol or a successor protocol; utilizes a broad-
     2  band  connection at the user's location; and permits a user to receive a
     3  call that originates on the public switched  telephone  network  and  to
     4  terminate a call to the public switched telephone network.
     5    2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, where a
     6  contract  that includes the procurement of information and communication
     7  technologies is to be awarded by a state  agency,  public  authority  or
     8  municipality, pursuant to a competitive bidding process or a request for
     9  proposal  process,  such contract shall require that any information and
    10  communication technologies furnished to the state or any  of  its  poli-
    11  tical  subdivisions  shall make available software that blocks automated
    12  calls and calls that cause a caller identification service  to  transmit
    13  false  caller identification information to all information and communi-
    14  cation technologies customers. Such software shall be provided  free  of
    15  charge  by  the  awarded contractor to all information and communication
    16  technologies customers.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    18  ing the date it shall have become a law.