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

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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-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         268--A
                                                                 Cal. No. 78

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        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, ZINERMAN, DeSTEFANO,
          BARRON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HEVESI, MANKTELOW,  SIMON  --
          read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on Consumer Affairs and
          Protection -- reported from committee, advanced to  a  third  reading,
          amended  and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining its place on the order of
          third reading

        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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01889-02-1
        A. 268--A                           2

     1    d.  "provider"  means  a telecommunication company that provides voice
     2  communications services to customers in this state.
     3    2.  Consistent with authorization provided by federal law and rules of
     4  the federal communications commission or its successors:
     5    a. providers shall block a voice call when the subscriber to which the
     6  originating number is assigned has requested that  calls  purporting  to
     7  originate  from  that  number  be blocked because the number is used for
     8  inbound calls only; and
     9    b. providers shall block calls originating from the following numbers:
    10    (i) a number that is not a valid North American numbering plan number;
    11    (ii) a valid North American numbering plan number that  is  not  allo-
    12  cated  to  a provider by the North American numbering plan administrator
    13  or the pooling administrator; and
    14    (iii) a valid North American numbering plan number that  is  allocated
    15  to a provider by the North American number plan administrator or pooling
    16  administrator, but is unused, so long as the provider blocking the calls
    17  is the allocatee of the number and confirms that the number is unused or
    18  has  obtained  verification from the allocatee that the number is unused
    19  at the time of the blocking.
    20    c. providers shall not block a voice call if the call is an  emergency
    21  call placed to 911.
    22    d.  providers  shall  not  block  a voice call to a subscriber who has
    23  requested that no inbound calls be blocked.
    24    3. For purposes of blocking calls from certain originating numbers  as
    25  authorized in this section, a provider may rely on caller identification
    26  service information to determine the originating number.
    27    4.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, or regulation, a
    28  voice service provider shall be considered to be in compliance with this
    29  section and any rule or regulation adopted thereunder if  such  provider
    30  has  filed  a  certification  with the federal communications commission
    31  that the provider's traffic is either signed with STIR/SHAKEN or subject
    32  to a compliant robocall mitigation program. A copy of such certification
    33  shall be made available to the attorney general or  the  public  service
    34  commission, upon request.
    35    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.