Bill Text: MA H3868 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allowing persons to select an option to be removed from telemarketing solicitations

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-20 - Public Hearing date 7/14 at 10:00 AM in Hearing Room B2 [H3868 Detail]

Download: Massachusetts-2009-H3868-Introduced.html

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Paul McMurtry

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
                Court assembled:

                The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to telemarketing solicitation.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:	District/Address:
Paul McMurtry	11th Norfolk
Cleon H. Turner	1st Barnstable
Donald F. Humason, Jr.	4th Hampden
Martin J. Walsh	13th Suffolk
Kevin Aguiar	7th Bristol
Mary E. Grant	6th Essex
Brian A. Joyce	Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth
Richard J. Ross	9th Norfolk
Lida E. Harkins	13th Norfolk
Allen J. McCarthy	7th Plymouth
Michael F. Rush	10th Suffolk
Benjamin Swan	11th Hampden

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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An Act relative to telemarketing solicitation.

                Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1.  Section 5A of chapter 159C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:-

(c) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a telemarketer shall include, with each pre-recorded telephone telemarketing message and facsimile telemarketing message to residents and businesses, an option to said resident or business that they can be removed from any future call list and the method by which such removal can occur. 

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