Bill Text: NY S04020 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits telemarketers from knowingly placing unsolicited telemarketing sales calls during a state of emergency or disaster emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-18 - signed chap.680 [S04020 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04020-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4020
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 25, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
        AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          telemarketers  from  placing  unsolicited  telemarketing  sales  calls
          during a state of emergency or disaster emergency
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  399-z  of the general business law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
     3    5-a. It shall be unlawful for any telemarketer doing business in  this
     4  state  to  knowingly make an unsolicited telemarketing sales call to any
     5  person in a county, city, town or village  under  a  declared  state  of
     6  emergency  or disaster emergency as described in sections twenty-four or
     7  twenty-eight of the executive law.
     8    § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 399-pp of the general  business  law  is
     9  amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
    10    f.  make  an  unsolicited  telemarketing sales call to any person in a
    11  county, city, town or village under a declared  state  of  emergency  or
    12  disaster  emergency as described in sections twenty-four or twenty-eight
    13  of the executive law.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01070-01-9