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Assembly Bill A8565

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires businesses which provide for someone to spoof a telephone number to keep certain records

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2021-A8565 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8032
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §399-rr, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A61, S2318
2025-2026: A2661, S4524

2021-A8565 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires businesses which provide for someone to spoof a telephone number to keep records of the phone calls placed with their services.

2021-A8565 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8565
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring busi-
   nesses  which  provide for someone to spoof a telephone number to keep
   certain records

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 399-rr to read as follows:
   § 399-RR. TELEPHONE NUMBER SPOOFING RECORDKEEPING. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES
 OF  THIS SECTION, "SPOOFING OF A TELEPHONE NUMBER" SHALL MEAN HAVING THE
 CALLER INFORMATION DISPLAYED ON A CALLER IDENTIFICATION DEVICE BE INFOR-
 MATION OTHER THAN THAT OF THE ACTUAL  TELEPHONE  NUMBER  BEING  USED  TO
 PLACE THE CALL.
   2.  EVERY  BUSINESS  WHICH  PROVIDES  FOR  THE SPOOFING OF A TELEPHONE
 NUMBER SHALL KEEP A RECORD  OF  THE  CALLS  PLACED  USING  ITS  SERVICES
 INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
   (A) THE PHONE NUMBER THAT WOULD BE DISPLAYED ON THE CALLER IDENTIFICA-
 TION DEVICE OF THE PERSON RECEIVING THE PHONE CALL;
   (B)  THE  TELEPHONE  NUMBER OR INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESS OF THE DEVICE
 PLACING THE TELEPHONE CALL; AND
   (C) THE TIME, DATE, AND DURATION OF THE TELEPHONE CALL.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13936-01-1

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