Bill Text: NY A08565 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires businesses which provide for someone to spoof a telephone number to keep records of the phone calls placed with their services.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A08565 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08565-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8565

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 13, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring busi-
          nesses  which  provide for someone to spoof a telephone number to keep
          certain records

          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-rr to read as follows:
     3    § 399-rr. Telephone number spoofing recordkeeping. 1. For the purposes
     4  of  this section, "spoofing of a telephone number" shall mean having the
     5  caller information displayed on a caller identification device be infor-
     6  mation other than that of the actual  telephone  number  being  used  to
     7  place the call.
     8    2.  Every  business  which  provides  for  the spoofing of a telephone
     9  number shall keep a record  of  the  calls  placed  using  its  services
    10  including, but not limited to:
    11    (a) the phone number that would be displayed on the caller identifica-
    12  tion device of the person receiving the phone call;
    13    (b)  the  telephone  number or internet protocol address of the device
    14  placing the telephone call; and
    15    (c) the time, date, and duration of the telephone call.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13936-01-1