Exempts businesses and professional services from certain telemarketing restrictions during a state of emergency; allows such persons to make telemarking sales calls.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6756--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 29, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK, WALSH, PALMESANO, GRIFFIN, SIMPSON --
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 telemarketing
calls during a state of emergency
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5-a of section 399-z of the general business
2 law, as added by chapter 680 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 5-a. It shall be unlawful for any telemarketer doing business in this
5 state to knowingly make an unsolicited telemarketing sales call to any
6 person in a county, city, town or village under a declared state of
7 emergency or disaster emergency as described in [sections] section twen-
8 ty-four or twenty-eight of the executive law; provided, however, that
9 the telemarketing restrictions pursuant to this section shall not apply
10 to any business or professional service that has been deemed essential
11 by an executive order.
12 § 2. Paragraph f of subdivision 7 of section 399-pp of the general
13 business law, as added by chapter 680 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
14 read as follows:
15 f. knowingly make an unsolicited telemarketing sales call to any
16 person in a county, city, town or village under a declared state of
17 emergency or disaster emergency as described in [sections] section twen-
18 ty-four or twenty-eight of the executive law; provided, however, that
19 the telemarketing restrictions pursuant to this section shall not apply
20 to any business or professional service that has been deemed essential
21 by an executive order.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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