Senate Bill 2278

    Florida Senate - 1999                                  SB 2278

    By Senator Sebesta





    20-1517-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to telephone solicitation;

  3         amending s. 501.059, F.S.; prohibiting

  4         telephone solicitors from making unsolicited

  5         calls without complete caller identification

  6         information; providing penalties; providing an

  7         effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Subsection (11) is added to Section

12  501.059, Florida Statutes, to read:

13         501.059  Telephone solicitation.--

14         (11) It is the intent of the Legislature to protect

15  consumers from unwanted telephone solicitations and afford

16  consumers all possible information regarding the identity of

17  any telephone solicitor who places a call to that consumer. A

18  telephone solicitor may not make or cause to be made any

19  unsolicited telephonic sales call to any residential, mobile,

20  or telephonic paging device telephone number unless all

21  possible caller identification information is provided.

22         (a)  Failure to comply with this subsection is an

23  unfair and deceptive trade practice, punishable under the

24  provisions of part II of this chapter.

25         (b)  Any telephone solicitor who knowingly violates

26  this subsection commits a misdemeanor of the first degree,

27  punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. For the

28  purposes of this subsection, the following actions constitute

29  a knowing violation:

30         1.  Disabling a telephone system's caller

31  indentification generator;

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  1         2.  Providing a false or fictitious number;

  2         3.  Knowingly using telephone equipment that is

  3  incapable of providing caller identification information; or

  4         4.  Knowingly using a telephone carrier that is

  5  incapable of passing on caller identification information to

  6  the intended recipient of the telephone solicitation.

  7         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 1999.

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11    Provides penalties for a telephone solicitor who makes
      unsolicited calls without providing all possible caller
12    identification information.

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