HB 1176 - AS INTRODUCED

2001 SESSION

01-2195

05/09

HOUSE BILL 1176

AN ACT limiting the hours available for telephone solicitation.

SPONSORS: Rep. Pantelakos, Rock 30

COMMITTEE: Commerce

ANALYSIS

This bill limits the hours available for telephone solicitation to weekdays, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

01-2195

05/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

AN ACT limiting the hours available for telephone solicitation.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Use of Automatic Telephone Dialing Systems and Caller Identification Services; Chapter Title Changed to Telephone Solicitation. The title of chapter 359-E is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

CHAPTER 359-E

TELEPHONE SOLICITATION

2 New Section; Telephone Solicitation; Solicitation Hours. Amend RSA 359-E by inserting after section 5-a the following new section:

359-E:5-b Solicitation Hours. No person shall initiate any telephone solicitation to a residential telephone subscriber other than weekdays, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., local time at the called party's location.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2003.