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.
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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.
