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SF 2421 Senate Long Description

E Regulating unsolicited telephonic sales calls; providing for residential telephone subscribers placement on a no sales solicitation calls list through notice to the department of commerce; requiring periodic updating of the list by the department for telephone solicitors access purposes, fee, requiring free lists to trade associations acting on behalf of telephone solicitors, requiring crediting of fee amounts to an account in the special revenue fund and providing an annual appropriation to the commissioner of commerce for administration purposes; prohibiting solicitor unsolicited telephonic sales calls to numbers on the list; requiring the department to notify telephone subscribers inquiring about the no call list of the availability of the telephone preference service operated by the direct marketing association (DMA) and the procedures for listing on the telephone preference service or other national no call lists, exempting telephone solicitors subscribing to and complying with the national no call lists from the requirements of the state list; restricting solicitor electronic charges resulting from preacquired account telephone calls, disclosure requirement; prohibiting solicitor interference with caller identification services; requiring the commissioner to include state list subscribers on federal no call lists, restricting release of information; requiring telephone companies to inform customers of the right to be placed on no sales solicitation call lists; granting the commissioner certain enforcement powers, declaring violations as a deceptive practice and authorizing civil actions for violations; requiring the commissioner by a certain date to compile a list of educational tools to help consumers understand options relating to telephone solicitations and to provide information on the department web site for residential telephone subscribers and promote information relating to national do not call lists and other consumer options relating to telephone solicitations (ja)