Sponsored by:
Senator PETER J. BARNES, III
District 18 (Middlesex)
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Assemblywoman NANCY J. PINKIN
District 18 (Middlesex)
Assemblyman WAYNE P. DEANGELO
District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)
Assemblyman TIMOTHY J. EUSTACE
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Addiego, Assemblyman Coughlin and Assemblywoman Handlin
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to commercial mobile service devices.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning certain unsolicited telemarketing sales calls and amending P.L.2003, c.76.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 12 of P.L.2003, c.76 (C.56:8-130) is amended to read as follows:
12. a. [No] A telemarketer shall not make or cause to be made any unsolicited telemarketing sales call to a commercial mobile service device of any customer, except that a telemarketer that is a commercial mobile services company may call its customer using its commercial mobile services if its customer will not incur telecommunication charges or a usage allocation deduction as a result of [such] the call and the call is directly related to the commercial mobile services of the commercial mobile services company, unless the customer has stated to the commercial mobile services company that the customer no longer desires to receive these calls.
b. For the purposes of this section, "commercial mobile service" means a type of mobile telecommunications service as defined in subsection (d) of section 332 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. s.332(d)); and "commercial mobile service device" means any equipment used for the purpose of providing commercial mobile service.
c. The provisions of this section shall apply to those numbers for commercial mobile service devices which the division is able to distinguish from numbers for devices for telecommunications service, as defined in section 2 of P.L.1991, c.428 (C.48:2-21.17), on the 30th day following certification of such to the Governor and the Legislature.
(cf: P.L.2003, c.76, s.12)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill clarifies the State’s “no call list” law to prohibit unsolicited telemarketing sales calls from being made to commercial mobile service devices. Currently, the “no call list” law prohibits all telemarketing sales calls from being made to commercial mobile service devices, except that a commercial mobile service company may call its customers using its commercial mobile services.