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PRINTER'S NO. 262
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
289
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY SIMMONS, BERNSTINE, NEILSON, IRVIN, READSHAW,
HILL-EVANS, MILLARD, KORTZ, RADER, DRISCOLL, BARRAR, HAHN,
TOOHIL AND SAYLOR, JANUARY 30, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, JANUARY 30, 2019
AN ACT
Providing for updated caller identification information.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Caller
Identification Information Update Act.
Section 2. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Bureau." The Bureau of Consumer Protection in the Office of
Attorney General.
"Caller identification information." Information provided by
a caller identification service regarding the telephone number
of or other information regarding the origination of a call made
using a telecommunications service or Voice over Internet
Protocol service.
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"Caller identification service." A service or device
designed to provide the user of the service or device with the
telephone number of or other information regarding the
origination of a call made using a telecommunications service or
VoIP service. The term includes automatic number identification
services.
"Telecommunications service." The offering of transmission
of messages or communications for a fee to the public.
"Voice over Internet Protocol service" or "VoIP service." A
service that:
(1) enables real-time, two-way voice communications that
originate or terminate from the user's location in Internet
protocol or any successor protocol;
(2) uses a broadband connection from the user's
location; and
(3) permits users generally to receive calls that
originate on the public switched telephone network and to
terminate calls to the public switched telephone network.
Section 3. Prohibition and duty.
(a) Subscription prohibition.--A telecommunications or VoIP
service provider shall not subscribe to or utilize a caller
identification service unless that service verifies in writing
that the caller identification service updates the caller
identification information contained in the caller
identification service's database or any other information
retention or storage method at least every 10 calendar days.
(b) Provision of information.--A telecommunications or VoIP
service provider must provide to a caller identification
information service accurate and up-to-date caller
identification information within seven calendar days of a
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change in the name of the person associated with a telephone
number.
Section 4. Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection.
A violation of any provision of this act shall be deemed a
violation of the act of December 17, 1968 (P.L.1224, No.387),
known as the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law.
Nothing in this act shall preclude a person from exercising any
right provided under the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer
Protection Law.
Section 5. Regulations.
The bureau may adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry
out the provisions of this act.
Section 6. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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