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PA SB992
Bill
Status
10/29/2025
Primary Sponsor
Michele Brooks
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AI Summary
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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
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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
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Restricts telemarketing hours to weekdays between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m., prohibiting all telephone solicitations on Sundays and legal holidays
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Bans the use of synthetic or computer-generated messaging technology to defraud, deceive, or mislead phone subscribers, and prohibits falsifying caller identification information
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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