STATE OF NEW YORK
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, BUTTENSCHON, LAVINE, ENGLEBRIGHT, McDO-
NALD, CYMBROWITZ, D'URSO, GRIFFIN, GOTTFRIED, ARROYO, DINOWITZ,
JAFFEE, STERN, CRUZ, ZEBROWSKI, CRESPO, COLTON, RIVERA, BURKE, LUPAR-
DO, JEAN-PIERRE, THIELE, BRABENEC, MONTESANO, SCHMITT, BYRNE, REILLY,
RAIA, SMULLEN, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Consumer Affairs and Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
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:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 a. providers shall block a voice call when the subscriber to which the
2 originating number is assigned has requested that calls purporting to
3 originate from that number be blocked because the number is used for
4 inbound calls only; and
5 b. providers shall block calls originating from the following numbers:
6 (i) a number that is not a valid North American numbering plan number;
7 (ii) a valid North American numbering plan number that is not allo-
8 cated to a provider by the North American numbering plan administrator
9 or the pooling administrator; and
10 (iii) a valid North American numbering plan number that is allocated
11 to a provider by the North American number plan administrator or pooling
12 administrator, but is unused, so long as the provider blocking the calls
13 is the allocatee of the number and confirms that the number is unused or
14 has obtained verification from the allocatee that the number is unused
15 at the time of the blocking.
16 c. providers shall not block a voice call if the call is an emergency
17 call placed to 911.
18 d. providers shall not block a voice call to a subscriber who has
19 requested that no inbound calls be blocked.
20 3. For purposes of blocking calls from certain originating numbers as
21 authorized in this section, a provider may rely on caller identification
22 service information to determine the originating number.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
