SB7 Alabama 2019 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Tim Melson Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Telemarketers and telephone solicitation, Secs. 8-19A-3, 8-19C-5, 8-19C-11am'd.

Description

Under existing law, no penalty exists for the intentional use of misleading caller identification information by telephone solicitors.

This bill would prohibit the intentional misuse of misleading caller identification information by telephone solicitors. Violations of this act would also be made violations of the Deceptive Trade Practices Act in order to provide for enforcement by the Attorney General.

This bill would not apply to telephone solicitations made on behalf of charitable institutions. This bill would also not apply to solicitations in which the telephone solicitor has substituted the proper caller identification information of the party on whose behalf the solicitation has been made.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

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Subjects

Telemarketing