May 2, 2018, Introduced by Senators HOOD, HANSEN, GREGORY, ANANICH and HOPGOOD and referred to the Committee on Energy and Technology.
A bill to amend 1971 PA 227, entitled
"An act to prescribe the rights and duties of parties to home
solicitation sales; to regulate certain telephone solicitation; to
provide for the powers and duties of certain state officers and
entities; and to prescribe penalties and remedies,"
by amending section 1b (MCL 445.111b), as added by 2002 PA 612.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
1b. (1) At the beginning of a telephone solicitation, a
person
the organization or other
person on whose behalf the
telephone call was initiated shall ensure that the individual who
is
making a the telephone
solicitation to a residential telephone
subscriber
shall state does all of
the following:
(a) States his or her name and the full name of the
organization or other person on whose behalf the call was
initiated. and
provide
(b) Provides a telephone number of the organization or other
person
on request. A natural person must be
(c) Provides the residential telephone subscriber with all of
the following options:
(i) Proceeding with the telephone call.
(ii) Ending the telephone call and removing the residential
telephone subscriber's name from the organization's or other
person's call list.
(iii) Ending the telephone call and keeping the residential
telephone subscriber's name on the organization's or other person's
call list.
(2) An organization or other person described in subsection
(1) shall ensure that an individual is available to answer the
telephone number described in subsection (1) at any time when the
organization
or other person is making telephone
solicitations are
being
made.
(2)
The person and shall ensure
that the individual who is
answering
the calls made to that telephone number required under
subsection
(1) shall provide provides a residential telephone
subscriber calling the telephone number with information describing
the organization or other person on whose behalf the telephone
solicitation was made to the residential telephone subscriber and
describing the telephone solicitation.
(3) A telephone solicitor shall not intentionally block or
otherwise interfere with the caller ID function on the telephone of
a residential telephone subscriber to whom a telephone solicitation
is made so that the telephone number of the caller is not displayed
on the telephone of the residential telephone subscriber.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.