Bill Text: NY S02861 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 2861 (Prior Session Legislation)

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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-15 - APPROVAL MEMO.40 [S02861 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02861-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2861
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 30, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations
        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