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Senate Bill S6967

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to telemarketing restrictions during a state of emergency

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2021-S6967 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6756
Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§399-z & 399-pp, Gen Bus L

2021-S6967 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts businesses and professional services from certain telemarketing restrictions during a state of emergency; allows such persons to make telemarking sales calls.

2021-S6967 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S6967 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6967
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- 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  telemarketing
   calls during a state of emergency
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5-a of section 399-z of  the  general  business
 law,  as added by chapter 680 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
 follows:
   5-a. It shall be unlawful for any telemarketer doing business in  this
 state  to  knowingly make an unsolicited telemarketing sales call to any
 person in a county, city, town or village  under  a  declared  state  of
 emergency or disaster emergency as described in [sections] SECTION twen-
 ty-four  or  twenty-eight of the executive law;  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
 THE TELEMARKETING RESTRICTIONS PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL NOT  APPLY
 TO  ANY  BUSINESS OR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE THAT HAS BEEN DEEMED ESSENTIAL
 BY AN EXECUTIVE ORDER.
   § 2. Paragraph f of subdivision 7 of section  399-pp  of  the  general
 business law, as added by chapter 680 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
 read as follows:
   f.  knowingly  make  an  unsolicited  telemarketing  sales call to any
 person in a county, city, town or village  under  a  declared  state  of
 emergency or disaster emergency as described in [sections] SECTION twen-
 ty-four  or twenty-eight of the executive law;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER, THAT
 THE TELEMARKETING RESTRICTIONS PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL NOT  APPLY
 TO  ANY  BUSINESS OR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE THAT HAS BEEN DEEMED ESSENTIAL
 BY AN EXECUTIVE ORDER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11607-02-1

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