Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF2421

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)