New York S 7519: Provides that a business entity may not alter caller identification information with the intent to defraud or harass a third party or the recipient of the call

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S07519 Summary:

BILL NOS07519 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00971

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SPONSORCLEARE

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §399-ppp, Gen Bus L; amd §8303, CPLR

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Provides that a business entity may not provide false caller identification information with the intent to defraud or harass any party; provides definition of business entity.

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BILL NOS07519 

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04/21/2025REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7519

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

 AN ACT to amend the general business law and the civil practice law and
 rules, in relation to prohibiting business entities from transmitting
 false caller identification information with the intent to defraud or
 harass any person

 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-ppp to read as follows:
 3 § 399-ppp. Prohibition on provision of deceptive caller identification
 4 information. 1. It shall be unlawful for any business entity, in
 5 connection with any telecommunications service or VoIP service, to cause
 6 any caller identification service to transmit false caller identifica-
 7 tion information, with the intent to defraud or harass, when making a
 8 call to any person within the state.
 9 2. For purposes of this section:
 10 (a) "Business entity" means a corporation, association, partnership,
 11 limited liability company, limited liability partnership or other legal
 12 entity.
 13 (b) "Caller identification information" means information provided to
 14 an end user by a caller identification service regarding the telephone
 15 number of, or other information regarding the origination of, a call
 16 made using a telecommunications service or VoIP service.
 17 (c) "Caller identification service" means any service or device
 18 designed to provide the user of the service or device with the telephone
 19 number of, or other information regarding the origination of, a call
 20 made using a telecommunications service or VoIP service. Such term
 21 includes automatic number identification services.
 22 (d) "VoIP service" means a service that:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00894-01-5

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 1 (i) provides real-time voice communications transmitted through end
 2 user equipment using TCP/IP protocol, or a successor protocol, for a fee
 3 or without a fee; and
 4 (ii) is offered to the public, or such classes of users as to be
 5 effectively available to the public (whether part of a bundle of
 6 services or separately); and
 7 (iii) has the capability to originate traffic to, or terminate traffic
 8 from, the public switched telephone network.
 9 3. Whenever there shall be a violation of this section, an application
 10 may be made by the attorney general in the name of the people of the
 11 state of New York to a court or justice having jurisdiction to issue an
 12 injunction, and upon notice to the defendant, to immediately enjoin and
 13 restrain the continuance of such violations; and if it shall appear to
 14 the satisfaction of the court or justice, by a preponderance of the
 15 evidence, that the defendant has, in fact, violated this section an
 16 injunction may be issued by such court or justice enjoining and
 17 restraining any further violation, without requiring proof that any
 18 person has, in fact, been injured or damaged thereby. The court may make
 19 allowances to the attorney general as provided in paragraph six of
 20 subdivision (a) of section eighty-three hundred three of the civil prac-
 21 tice law and rules. In addition to any such allowances, the court may
 22 direct restitution to any victim upon a showing of damages by a prepon-
 23 derance of the evidence. In addi