SB 962 — Telephone Solicitation

Florida Senate - 2018 CS for SB 962 By Senatorthe GrimsleyCommittee 26-00714A-18on 2018962__Commerce Aand billTourism; to be entitled An act relating to telephone solicitation;

and Senator Grimsley 577-01937-18 2018962c1 A bill to be entitled An act relating to telephone solicitation;

364.246,365.176, F.S.;

authorizing telecommunication providers,providers with authorization from a subscriber, to block certain callscalls; from reaching the subscriber;

authorizingprohibiting telecommunication providers to rely solely upon caller identification service information to determine originating numbers for the purposeblocking of blockingcertain such calls;

authorizing telecommunication providers to rely upon caller identification service information to determine originating numbers for the purpose of blocking such calls;

1211 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

1413 Section 1. Section 364.246,365.176, Florida Statutes, is created to read:

364.246 Florida365.176 Florida Call-Blocking Act.— (1) This section may be cited as the “Florida Call-Blocking Act.” (2) As used in this section, the term:

(3) Consistent with authorization provided by federal law and rules of the Federal Communications Commission or its successors, providers operating in this state may,may with authorization from a subscriber, block calls to the subscriber in the following manner:

(a) Providers may block callsa fromvoice specificcall numberswhen identified by the subscriber basedto onwhich the originating number shownis inassigned has requested that calls purporting to originate from that number be blocked because the subscriber’snumber calleris identificationused service.for inbound calls only.

Such calls may be blocked without regard as to whether the calls actually originate from that number.

and 3. A valid North American Numbering Plan number that is allocated to a provider by the North American Numbering Plan Administrator or pooling administrator, but is unused, so long as the provider blocking the calls is the allocatee of the number and confirms that the number is notunused assignedor tohas aobtained subscriber.verification from the allocatee that the number is unused at the time of the blocking.

52 Providers may not block a voice call pursuant to subparagraph 1.

or subparagraph 2.

if the call is an emergency call placed to 911.

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