Bill Text: NY S06267 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to telecommunication companies blocking certain numbers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-09 - SUBSTITUTED BY A268A [S06267 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06267-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6267--A
            Cal. No. 1079

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 19, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Consumer  Protection  --
          reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place in 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
    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:
    20    a. providers shall block a voice call when the subscriber to which the
    21  originating number is assigned has requested that  calls  purporting  to

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01889-03-1
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     1  originate  from  that  number  be blocked because the number is used for
     2  inbound calls only; and
     3    b. providers shall block calls originating from the following numbers:
     4    (i) a number that is not a valid North American numbering plan number;
     5    (ii)  a  valid  North American numbering plan number that is not allo-
     6  cated to a provider by the North American numbering  plan  administrator
     7  or the pooling administrator; and
     8    (iii)  a  valid North American numbering plan number that is allocated
     9  to a provider by the North American number plan administrator or pooling
    10  administrator, but is unused, so long as the provider blocking the calls
    11  is the allocatee of the number and confirms that the number is unused or
    12  has obtained verification from the allocatee that the number  is  unused
    13  at the time of the blocking.
    14    c.  providers shall not block a voice call if the call is an emergency
    15  call placed to 911.
    16    d. providers shall not block a voice call  to  a  subscriber  who  has
    17  requested that no inbound calls be blocked.
    18    3.  For purposes of blocking calls from certain originating numbers as
    19  authorized in this section, a provider may rely on caller identification
    20  service information to determine the originating number.
    21    4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, or regulation,  a
    22  voice service provider shall be considered to be in compliance with this
    23  section  and  any rule or regulation adopted thereunder if such provider
    24  has filed a certification with  the  federal  communications  commission
    25  that the provider's traffic is either signed with STIR/SHAKEN or subject
    26  to a compliant robocall mitigation program. A copy of such certification
    27  shall  be  made  available to the attorney general or the public service
    28  commission, upon request.
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.