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Assembly Bill A1845

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires telemarketers to add a customer's telephone number to all do-not-call lists maintained by such telemarketer

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2025-A1845 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6461
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §399-z, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9245
2023-2024: A9554, S1769

2025-A1845 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires telemarketers to add a customer's telephone number to all do-not-call lists maintained by such telemarketer when a customer requests to add their number to any do-not-call list maintained by such telemarketer.

2025-A1845 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1845
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring tele-
   marketers  to  add  a  customer's  telephone number to all do-not-call
   lists maintained by such telemarketer

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  399-z  of the general business law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 9-a to read as follows:
   9-A. WHERE A CUSTOMER  REQUESTS  TO  HAVE  SUCH  CUSTOMER'S  TELEPHONE
 NUMBER  PUT  ON A DO-NOT-CALL LIST MAINTAINED BY A TELEMARKETER AND SUCH
 TELEMARKETER MAINTAINS MORE THAN ONE SUCH DO-NOT-CALL  LIST,  THE  TELE-
 MARKETER  SHALL  PLACE  THE  TELEPHONE  NUMBER  OF  SUCH CUSTOMER ON ALL
 DO-NOT-CALL LISTS MAINTAINED BY SUCH TELEMARKETER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03450-01-5

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