Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Senate, No. 1237 — State of New Jersey (February 5, 2024)

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A Senate Commerce Committee statement to the Senate on Senate Bill No. 1237 with committee amendments, State of New Jersey, dated February 5, 2024, reporting the bill favorably. As amended, the bill updates provisions to reflect changes to the underlying law and requires a telemarketer making a telemarketing sales call to transmit its telephone number and name to any caller identification service in use by the recipient. It allows the telemarketer instead to transmit the name of the seller on whose behalf the call is placed and the seller's customer service telephone number answered during regular business hours. The statement says the bill was pre-filed for introduction in the 2024-2025 session pending technical review.

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SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No.
1237

with
committee amendments

STATE
OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: FEBRUARY
5, 2024

The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably and
with committee amendments Senate Bill No. 1237.

As
amended, this bill updates provisions to reflect changes to the underlying
law. Additionally, it requires a telemarketer, when making or causing
to be made any telemarketing sales call, to transmit or cause to be transmitted
the telephone number and the name of the telemarketer to any caller
identification service in use by a recipient of a telemarketing sales call. However,
it is not a violation of the provisions of the bill to substitute, for the name
and telephone number used in or billed for making the call, the name of the
seller on behalf of which a telemarketing sales call is placed and the seller’s
customer service telephone number that is answered during regular business
hours.

This bill was pre-filed for introduction in the
2024-2025 session pending technical review. As amended and reported, the bill
includes the changes required by technical review, which has been performed.

COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS :

The committee amended the bill to reflect changes in
the underlying law and to require the transmission of:

(1) the telephone number and name of the telemarketer
when making or causing to be made a sales call; or

(2) the name of the seller on behalf of which the
call is being placed.

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