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PA SB992

Bill

Status

Engrossed

10/29/2025

Primary Sponsor

Michele Brooks

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Expands telemarketing regulations to cover text messages, voicemails, and ringless voicemails in addition to traditional phone calls, updating the definition of "telephone solicitation" to include these communication methods

  • Prohibits robocalls to residential, business, or wireless phone lines without prior express written consent from the called party, requiring signed agreements that identify the authorized phone number and clearly disclose consent to receive automated calls

  • Restricts telemarketing hours to weekdays between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m., prohibiting all telephone solicitations on Sundays and legal holidays

  • Bans the use of synthetic or computer-generated messaging technology to defraud, deceive, or mislead phone subscribers, and prohibits falsifying caller identification information

  • Takes effect 90 days after enactment and amends the Telemarketer Registration Act of 1996 to modernize consumer protections against unwanted telemarketing communications

Legislative Description

Further providing for definitions, for registration requirement, for unlawful acts and penalties, for blocking of caller identification and other telemarketing screening products or services prohibited, for unwanted telephone solicitation calls prohibited, for violations and for investigation.

Last Action

Referred to Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities

11/6/2025

Committee Referrals

Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities11/6/2025
Appropriations10/20/2025
Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure9/5/2025

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