Bill Summary for H 520 (2025-2026)
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AN ACT TO ADDRESS ABUSE OF PRIVACY AND ACTS OF DECEPTION FROM TELEMARKETERS BY DISPLAYING PHONE NUMBERS THAT ARE FRAUDULENT AND MISREPRESENTATIVE OF THE ACTUAL CALLER.Intro. by Brody, Bell, Dahle, Gable.
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House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.
Modifies the definition of telephone solicitor under GS 75-101 to include agents of the individual, business establishment, business or legal entity doing business in this State that, directly or through salespersons or agents, makes or attempts to make telephone solicitations or causes telephone solicitations (currently, agents are not included in the term). Makes conforming changes to GS 75-102 (restrictions on telephone solicitations). Now prevents any telephone solicitor from using any other alteration to the origin of the telephone solicitation that displays in a way to give the perception that the call originated from any other origin except the actual origin of the telephone solicitation in GS 75-102 (currently, statute just prohibits a telephone solicitor from causing misleading information to be transmitted to users of caller identification technologies or otherwise block or misrepresent the origin of the telephone solicitation). Expands the prohibitions under GS 75-104.1 (telephone carriers) by also preventing telephone carriers from providing numbers of telephone subscribers to any entity that it knows (1) has previously used telephone subscriber information to violate provisions of Article 4 of GS Chapter 75, or (2) has previously provided the information to another entity that has violated provisions of that article. Makes organizational changes. Limits the enforcement remedies for violations of GS 75-102(i) under GS 75-105 for actions by a telephone subscriber who have received a telephone solicitation from or on behalf of a telephone solicitor in violation of Article 4 to recover $10,000 for each call placed in knowing violation the statute. Removes provisions creating a Class H felony for knowing violations of GS 75-105(i).