S7595A-2011 Actions

• Jun 21, 2012: SUBSTITUTED BY A4365A
• Jun 19, 2012: ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1319
• Jun 18, 2012: PRINT NUMBER 7595A
• Jun 18, 2012: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO RULES
• Jun 18, 2012: COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
• Jun 6, 2012: REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

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BILL NUMBER:S7595A

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the general business law, in relation to restricting
pay-per-call services

PURPOSE:
To prohibit the practice of holding a contest in which the
pay-per-call service, which is needed to claim the prize, charges a
higher fee for the transmission of the call as assessed by a
telephone corporation regulated by the public service commission.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Amends Section 369-ee of the General Business
law bay adding a new subdivision 2-a to make it unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to offer a consumer a prize, if in order
to claim the prize, the consumer must call a pay-per-call service
where the charge for such service is greater than the charge for the
transmission of the call as assessed by a telephone corporation
regulated by the public service commission.

JUSTIFICATION:
Every year, thousands of misleading phone calls are automatically
placed to consumers, by a person, firm, or corporation leading them
to believe, they had won a contest. In order to claim their prize,
which could be anything from "new watch" to a "35mm camera", they are
told that they have to place a return phone call to a given number.
In most cases, the cost of the return phone call costs up to $9.95 a
minute resulting in an excessive phone bill, which ends up being more
expensive than the prize itself.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect 30 days after the date on
which it shall have become law.

S7595A-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 7595--A
 I N  SENATE
 June 6, 2012
 
 Introduced by Sen. FUSCHILLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed  to  be  committed  to the Committee on Consumer Protection -
 committee discharged and said bill committed to the Committee on Rules
 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
 and recommitted to said committee
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the general business law, in relation to restricting
 pay-per-call services
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1. 

Section  369-ee of the general business law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:

 2-A. PRIZE CLAIMS BY PAY-PER-CALL SERVICES.  IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL  FOR
 ANY PERSON, FIRM OR CORPORATION TO OFFER A CONSUMER A PRIZE, IF IN ORDER
 TO  CLAIM THE PRIZE, THE CONSUMER MUST CALL A PAY-PER-CALL SERVICE WHERE
 THE CHARGE FOR SUCH PAY-PER-CALL SERVICE IS  GREATER  THAN  THE  SERVICE
 CHARGE  AUTHORIZED  BY THE APPROPRIATE REGULATORY COMMISSION. AS USED IN
 THIS SUBDIVISION "PAY-PER-CALL SERVICE" MEANS ANY TELEPHONE SERVICE  FOR
 WHICH THE CALLING PARTY IS ASSESSED, BY VIRTUE OF COMPLETING THE CALL, A
 CHARGE FOR WHICH THE CALLER PAYS A PER-CALL OR PER-TIME CHARGE.
 

S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08552-02-2

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