New York A 984: Requires a call-blocking service to be provided in state contracts that include procurement of a voice service

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A00984 Summary:

BILL NOA00984 

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SAME ASSAME AS S04537

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SPONSORSteck

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COSPNSRBlankenbush, Buttenschon, Colton, Cruz, DeStefano, Dinowitz, Hawley, Hyndman, Manktelow, McDonough,
 Morinello, Ra, Reyes, Rozic, Santabarbara, Sayegh, Simon, Smullen, Stirpe, Walsh, Weprin

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §149, St Fin L

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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.

Go to top A00984 Actions:

BILL NOA00984 

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01/08/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 984

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. STECK, BLANKENBUSH, BUTTENSCHON, COLTON, CRUZ,
 DeSTEFANO, DINOWITZ, HAWLEY, HYNDMAN, MANKTELOW, McDONOUGH, MORINELLO,
 RA, REYES, ROZIC, SANTABARBARA, SAYEGH, SIMON, SMULLEN, STIRPE, WALSH,
 WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental
 Operations

 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to requiring a call-
 blocking service to be provided in state contracts that include
 procurement if a voice service

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section
 2 149 to read as follows:
 3 § 149. Automated call software. 1. As used in this section:
 4 (a) "voice service" (i) means any service that is interconnected with
 5 the public switched telephone network and that furnishes voice communi-
 6 cations to an end user using resources from the North American Numbering
 7 Plan or any successor to the North American Numbering Plan adopted by
 8 the commission under section 251(e)(1) of the federal Communications Act
 9 of 1934, as amended; and (ii) includes (A) transmissions from a tele-
 10 phone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to a telephone
 11 facsimile machine; and (B) without limitation, any service that enables
 12 real-time, two-way voice communications, including any service that
 13 requires internet protocol-compatible customer premises equipment and
 14 permits out-bound calling, whether or not such service is one-way or
 15 two-way voice over internet protocol;
 16 (b) "caller identification information" means information provided to
 17 an end user by a caller identification service regarding the telephone
 18 number of, or other information regarding the origination of, a call
 19 made using a voice service;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03106-01-5

 A. 984 2

 1 (c) "caller identification service" means any service or device
 2 designed to provide the user of the service or device with the telephone
 3 number of, or other information regarding the origination of, a call
 4 made using a voice service. Such term includes automatic number iden-
 5 tification services; and
 6 (d) "call-blocking service" means any service that (i) uses reasonable
 7 analytics designed to identify unwanted calls; and (ii) blocks calls
 8 identified by such analytics.
 9 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, where a
 10 contract that includes the procurement of a voice service is to be
 11 awarded by a state agency, public authority or municipality, pursuant to
 12 a competitive bidding process or a request for proposal process, such
 13 contract shall require that any voice service furnished to the state or
 14 any of its political subdivisions shall include a call-blocking service.
 15 3. A voice service provider that provides a call-blocking service
 16 pursuant to this section shall not be subject to any civil or criminal
 17 liability on the basis that such call-blocking service blocked a call
 18 that was wanted or failed to block a call that was