Bill Text: NY S04764 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to telecommunication companies blocking certain numbers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S04764 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04764-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4764
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 25, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- 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  telecommuni-
          cation companies blocking certain numbers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  399-z-1 to read as follows:
     3    § 399-z-1. Telecommunication companies blocking certain numbers. 1. As
     4  used in this section, the following terms shall have the following mean-
     5  ings:
     6    a. "caller identification information" means information provided by a
     7  caller identification service regarding the  telephone  number  and  the
     8  name of the person calling;
     9    b. "caller identification service" means a service that allows a tele-
    10  phone  subscriber  to  have  the telephone number, and, where available,
    11  name of the calling party transmitted contemporaneously with  the  tele-
    12  phone  call,  and displayed on a device in or connected to the subscrib-
    13  er's telephone;
    14    c. "pooling administrator" means the thousands-block pooling  adminis-
    15  trator as identified in 47 C.F.R. § 52.20; and
    16    d.  "provider"  means  a telecommunication company that provides voice
    17  communications services to customers in this state.
    18    2. Consistent with authorization provided by federal law and rules  of
    19  the federal communications commission or its successors:
    20    a. providers shall block a voice call when the subscriber to which the
    21  originating  number  is  assigned has requested that calls purporting to
    22  originate from that number be blocked because the  number  is  used  for
    23  inbound calls only; and
    24    b. providers shall block calls originating from the following numbers:
    25    (i) a number that is not a valid North American numbering plan number;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (ii)  a  valid  North American numbering plan number that is not allo-
     2  cated to a provider by the North American numbering  plan  administrator
     3  or the pooling administrator; and
     4    (iii)  a  valid North American numbering plan number that is allocated
     5  to a provider by the North American number plan administrator or pooling
     6  administrator, but is unused, so long as the provider blocking the calls
     7  is the allocatee of the number and confirms that the number is unused or
     8  has obtained verification from the allocatee that the number  is  unused
     9  at the time of the blocking.
    10    c.  providers shall not block a voice call if the call is an emergency
    11  call placed to 911.
    12    d. providers shall not block a voice call  to  a  subscriber  who  has
    13  requested that no inbound calls be blocked.
    14    3.  For purposes of blocking calls from certain originating numbers as
    15  authorized in this section, a provider may rely on caller identification
    16  service information to determine the originating number.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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