Bill Text: NY A03481 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires software that blocks automated calls to be provided in state contracts that include information and communication technologies.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-19)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A03481 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03481-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3481
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to requiring software
          that blocks automated calls to be provided  in  state  contracts  that
          include information and communication technologies
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  148 to read as follows:
     3    § 148. Automated call software. 1. As used in this section:
     4    a.  "information  and  communication technologies" includes, but shall
     5  not be limited to, any communication  device  or  application  including
     6  radio,  television,  cellular  phones, computer and network hardware and
     7  software, and satellite systems as well  as  the  various  services  and
     8  applications   associated  with  them,  such  as  videoconferencing  and
     9  distance learning;
    10    b. "caller identification information" means information  provided  to
    11  an  end  user by a caller identification service regarding the telephone
    12  number of, or other information regarding the  origination  of,  a  call
    13  made using a telecommunications service or voip service;
    14    c.  "caller  identification  service"  means  any  service  or  device
    15  designed to provide the user of the service or device with the telephone
    16  number of, or other information regarding the  origination  of,  a  call
    17  made  using  a  telecommunications  service  or  voip service. Such term
    18  includes automatic number identification services; and
    19    d. "voip service" means any service that: enables real  time,  two-way
    20  voice  communication  originating  from  or  terminating  at  the user's
    21  location in internet protocol or a successor protocol; utilizes a broad-
    22  band connection at the user's location; and permits a user to receive  a
    23  call  that  originates  on  the public switched telephone network and to
    24  terminate a call to the public switched telephone network.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06066-01-9
        A. 3481                             2
     1    2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, where a
     2  contract that includes information and communication technologies is  to
     3  be  awarded by a state agency, public authority or municipality pursuant
     4  to a competitive bidding process or a request for proposal process, such
     5  competitive  bidding  process or request for proposal and the subsequent
     6  awarded contract shall require that such information  and  communication
     7  technologies  shall  make available software that blocks automated calls
     8  and calls that cause a caller identification service to  transmit  false
     9  caller  identification  information  to  all telephone and wireless cell
    10  phone customers. Such software shall be provided free of charge.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    12  ing the date it shall have become a law.