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Senate Bill S5912

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing fines for certain telemarketing violations

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2025-S5912 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §399-z, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S793
2021-2022: S4917
2023-2024: S4214

2025-S5912 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to establishing a fine of $25,000 for knowingly transmitting misleading, inaccurate, or false caller identification information including but not limited to providing copied or incorrect telephone numbers; raises the maximum fine for other related violations.

2025-S5912 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5912 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5912
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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 establishing  a
   fine for knowingly transmitting misleading, inaccurate, or false call-
   er  identification  information and raising the maximum fine for other
   related violations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2-a  and  paragraph  a  of subdivision 14 of
 section 399-z of the general business law, subdivision 2-a as amended by
 chapter 18 of the laws of 2017, paragraph a of subdivision 14 as amended
 by chapter 365 of the laws of 2023, are amended to read as follows:
   2-a. It shall be unlawful for any telemarketer or seller to  knowingly
 cause  any caller identification service to transmit misleading, inaccu-
 rate, or false caller  identification  information,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED TO COPIED OR INCORRECT TELEPHONE NUMBERS, provided that it shall
 not be a violation to substitute (for the name and phone number used in,
 or  billed  for,  making  the  call) the name or telephone number of the
 person or seller on behalf of which a telemarketing call is placed.    A
 VIOLATION  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL RESULT IN A TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
 DOLLAR FINE FOR EACH OFFENSE. THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY TO  TELE-
 PHONE  CALLS  PLACED  BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OR TELEPHONE CALLS PLACED BY AN
 INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION THAT HAS DELIBERATELY DISGUISED SUCH INFORMA-
 TION TO ENSURE THE SAFETY AND WELFARE OF INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY  DOMES-
 TIC VIOLENCE.
   a.  Where  it is determined after hearing that any person has violated
 one or more provisions of this section, the  secretary,  or  any  person
 deputized  or  so designated by [him or her] SUCH SECRETARY may assess a
 fine not to  exceed  [twenty]  TWENTY-FIVE  thousand  dollars  for  each
 violation.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10035-01-5

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