Bill Text: NY A00749 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Raises the maximum fine for persons who violate the law regulating telemarketing to twenty thousand dollars.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-17 - reported referred to rules [A00749 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00749-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         749--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. QUART, BLANKENBUSH -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection -- recommitted to the
          Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection in accordance with Assem-
          bly Rule 3, sec. 2 --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the general business law, in relation to raising the
          maximum fine for persons who violate the law regulating telemarketing

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision  14 of section 399-z of the
     2  general business law, as amended by chapter 572 of the laws of 2019,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    a.  Where  it is determined after hearing that any person has violated
     5  one or more provisions of this section, the  secretary,  or  any  person
     6  deputized or so designated by him or her may assess a fine not to exceed
     7  [eleven] twenty-two thousand dollars for each violation.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01136-02-0