HB506 Alabama 2017 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Kyle South
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2017
Title: Telemarketing, exemption for newspapers and magazines, further provided for, Sec. 8-19A-4 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, the Alabama Telemarketing Act regulates telemarketing and telephone solicitations. Persons primarily soliciting the sale of a newspaper, periodical of general circulation, or magazine are exempt from the law.
This bill would specify that the inclusion of a gift package or the offering of a magazine as a part of a membership does not preclude the solicitation from being exempt under the law and would further specify that a solicitation on behalf of a magazine would be exempt under the law if the magazine was approved as a magazine for the purpose of accruing income under the Internal Revenue Code.
Subjects: Telemarketing

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on State Government