Senate Bill S892

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the expiration of minutes purchased with prepaid cellular telephone cards

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S892 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A981
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §92-f, Pub Serv L (as proposed in S.2861 & A.3327)

2021-S892 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the expiration of minutes purchased with prepaid cellular telephone cards; provides that such notification shall be in at least fourteen-point sized print and should include the expiration date or the expiration policy.

2021-S892 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S892 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    892
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the expiration of
   minutes purchased with prepaid cellular telephone cards

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph g of subdivision 2 of section 92-f of the public
 service law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2020 relating  to  the
 expiration  of  minutes purchased with prepaid cellular telephone cards,
 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2861 and A. 3327, is amended
 to read as follows:
   g. in the case of a company that  offers  prepaid  cellular  telephone
 services  by  means of a prepaid calling card, such prepaid calling card
 shall have printed on its face, in conspicuous print of a font [at least
 two times larger that any other print printed on such card, and] in bold
 face print that is at least [ten-point] FOURTEEN-POINT sized, the  expi-
 ration  date OR THE EXPIRATION POLICY for the cellular minutes purchased
 with the card.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a  chapter of the laws of 2020 relating to the expiration of
 minutes purchased with prepaid cellular telephone cards, as proposed  in
 legislative bills numbers S. 2861 and A. 3327, takes effect.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07185-01-1

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