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NY A00984
Bill
Status
1/8/2025
Primary Sponsor
Phillip Steck
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AI Summary
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Requires all state agency, public authority, and municipality contracts that include voice service procurement to include call-blocking services capable of identifying and blocking unwanted calls
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Defines "voice service" broadly to include any service connected to the public switched telephone network, including VoIP, telephone facsimile transmissions, and other real-time two-way voice communications
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Defines "call-blocking service" as any service using reasonable analytics to identify unwanted calls and block those identified calls
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Provides immunity to voice service providers from civil or criminal liability when call-blocking services mistakenly block wanted calls or fail to block unwanted calls
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Takes effect on January 1 of the year following enactment
Legislative Description
Requires a call-blocking service to be provided in state contracts that include procurement of a voice service; provides that a voice service provider shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability for failure of a call-blocking service to block a call, or mistakenly blocking a call that should not have been blocked.
Last Action
referred to governmental operations
1/7/2026