Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jul 21, 2020 | referred to rules delivered to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.261 rules report cal.261 reported |
Jul 17, 2020 | reported referred to rules |
Jul 13, 2020 | reported referred to codes |
Mar 05, 2020 | referred to consumer affairs and protection |
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Steven Otis
Thomas Abinanti
A10043 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S8770
- Current Committee:
- Senate Rules
- Law Section:
- General Business Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §399-z, Gen Bus L
A10043 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10043 I N A S S E M B L Y March 5, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to including elec- tronic messaging texts as a form of telemarketing communication THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraphs h, i, j, k, l and m of subdivision 1 of section 399-z of the general business law, as amended by chapter 369 of the laws of 2012 and paragraph k as amended and paragraphs l and m of subdivision 1 as added by chapter 484 of the laws of 2016, are amended and a new paragraph n is added to read as follows: h. "Telemarketer" means any person who, for financial profit or commercial purposes in connection with telemarketing, makes telemarket- ing sales calls OR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING TEXTS to a customer when the customer is in this state or any person who directly controls or super- vises the conduct of a telemarketer. For the purposes of this section, "commercial purposes" shall mean the sale or offer for sale of goods or services; i. "Telemarketing" means any plan, program or campaign that is conducted to induce payment or the exchange of any other consideration for any goods or services that involves more than one telephone call OR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING TEXT by a telemarketer in which the customer is located within the state at the time of the call. Telemarketing does not include the solicitation of sales through media other than by telephone calls OR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING TEXTS and does not include calls OR ELEC- TRONIC MESSAGING TEXTS intended to implement or complete a transaction to which the customer has previously consented; j. "Telemarketing sales call" means a telephone call OR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING TEXT made DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY by a telemarketer or by any outbound telephone calling technology that delivers a prerecorded message to a customer or to a customer's voicemail or answering machine service, IN WHICH SUCH TELEPHONE CALL OR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING TEXT IS for the purpose of inducing payment or the exchange of any other consid- eration for any goods or services; EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets