STATE OF NEW YORK
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2356--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the expiration of
minutes purchased with prepaid cellular telephone cards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs e and f of subdivision 2 of section 92-f of the
2 public service law, as added by chapter 651 of the laws of 1999, are
3 amended and a new paragraph g is added to read as follows:
4 e. any expiration date or expiration policy; [and]
5 f. instructions for use of the card[.]; and
6 g. in the case of a company that offers prepaid cellular telephone
7 services by means of a prepaid calling card, such prepaid calling card
8 shall have printed on its face, in conspicuous print of a font at least
9 two times larger that any other print printed on such card, and in bold
10 face print that is at least ten-point sized, the expiration date for the
11 cellular minutes purchased with the card.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
13 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04778-03-7
