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HB161: prohibiting the use of false or deceptive caller identification information.

Citation
2019 HB161
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Bill details

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House status
Inexpedient to Legislate
Committee
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs
Hearing
02/05/2019 at 10:30 AM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Commerce and Consumer Affairs

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HB 161 - AS INTRODUCED

2019 SESSION

19-0105

05/08

HOUSE BILL 161

AN ACT prohibiting the use of false or deceptive caller identification information.

SPONSORS: Rep. Webb, Rock. 6; Rep. Pantelakos, Rock. 25; Rep. Welch, Rock. 13; Rep. Gunski, Hills. 6; Rep. Migliore, Graf. 9; Rep. King, Hills. 33; Rep. Cleaver, Hills. 35; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits a person engaged in solicitation from preventing caller identification information from being received by the called party station. The bill also prohibits such person from using false or deceptive caller identification information.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

19-0105

05/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

AN ACT prohibiting the use of false or deceptive caller identification information.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Telemarketing; Caller Identification; Blocking and Misleading Information Prohibited. RSA 359-E:5-a is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

359-E:5-a Caller Identification; Blocking and Misleading Information Prohibited. No person using an automated telephone dialing system or any other method for solicitation shall use any method, including per-call blocking or per-line blocking, to prevent caller identification information from being received by the called party station. The caller identification information shall contain a telephone number at which the telephone solicitor may receive telephone calls and shall not contain misleading, inaccurate, or deceptive information.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2020.