Bill Text: NY A00268 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to telecommunication companies blocking certain numbers.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-10)

Status: (Passed) 2021-11-08 - signed chap.582 [A00268 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00268-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           268

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PAULIN,  BUTTENSCHON,  LAVINE,  ENGLEBRIGHT,
          CYMBROWITZ, GRIFFIN,  GOTTFRIED,  DINOWITZ,  STERN,  CRUZ,  ZEBROWSKI,
          COLTON,  J. RIVERA, LUPARDO, JEAN-PIERRE, THIELE, BRABENEC, MONTESANO,
          SCHMITT, BYRNE,  REILLY,  SMULLEN,  McDONOUGH,  COOK,  GALEF,  SAYEGH,
          REYES, WALCZYK, HYNDMAN, ABINANTI, NIOU, OTIS -- Multi-Sponsored by --
          M.  of  A.  HEVESI,  MANKTELOW, SIMON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in  relation  to  telecommuni-
          cation companies blocking certain numbers

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  399-z-1 to read as follows:
     3    § 399-z-1. Telecommunication companies blocking certain numbers. 1. As
     4  used in this section, the following terms shall have the following mean-
     5  ings:
     6    a. "caller identification information" means information provided by a
     7  caller identification service regarding the  telephone  number  and  the
     8  name of the person calling;
     9    b. "caller identification service" means a service that allows a tele-
    10  phone  subscriber  to  have  the telephone number, and, where available,
    11  name of the calling party transmitted contemporaneously with  the  tele-
    12  phone  call,  and displayed on a device in or connected to the subscrib-
    13  er's telephone;
    14    c. "pooling administrator" means the thousands-block pooling  adminis-
    15  trator as identified in 47 C.F.R. § 52.20; and
    16    d.  "provider"  means  a telecommunication company that provides voice
    17  communications services to customers in this state.
    18    2. Consistent with authorization provided by federal law and rules  of
    19  the federal communications commission or its successors:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01889-01-1
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     1    a. providers shall block a voice call when the subscriber to which the
     2  originating  number  is  assigned has requested that calls purporting to
     3  originate from that number be blocked because the  number  is  used  for
     4  inbound calls only; and
     5    b. providers shall block calls originating from the following numbers:
     6    (i) a number that is not a valid North American numbering plan number;
     7    (ii)  a  valid  North American numbering plan number that is not allo-
     8  cated to a provider by the North American numbering  plan  administrator
     9  or the pooling administrator; and
    10    (iii)  a  valid North American numbering plan number that is allocated
    11  to a provider by the North American number plan administrator or pooling
    12  administrator, but is unused, so long as the provider blocking the calls
    13  is the allocatee of the number and confirms that the number is unused or
    14  has obtained verification from the allocatee that the number  is  unused
    15  at the time of the blocking.
    16    c.  providers shall not block a voice call if the call is an emergency
    17  call placed to 911.
    18    d. providers shall not block a voice call  to  a  subscriber  who  has
    19  requested that no inbound calls be blocked.
    20    3.  For purposes of blocking calls from certain originating numbers as
    21  authorized in this section, a provider may rely on caller identification
    22  service information to determine the originating number.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.