BILL NUMBER: AB 424	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Torres

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2009

   An act to add Section 22761 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to telephones.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 424, as introduced, Torres. Telephone sales: disclosures.
   Existing law makes it unlawful to sell any cordless telephone
manufactured after January 1, 1992, that does not provide increased
protection from unintentional line seizure and dialing, and
protection from unintentional ringing. Existing law also requires
sellers of specified telephone equipment to disclose whether the
equipment employs pulse, tone, pulse-or-tone, or other signaling
methods, and to provide a general description of the services it can
or cannot access.
   This bill would require sellers of wireless telephone handsets
within the state to disclose, orally and in writing, whether the
handsets provide Enhanced 911 requirements, as specified by the
Federal Communications Commission.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 22761 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   22761.  (a) Any person selling a wireless telephone handset within
this state shall prominently disclose whether the handset provides
E911, including specifically whether the handset provides automatic
location identification for an emergency call and a dialable callback
number for an emergency response, as provided by the Federal
Communications Commission in the Third Report and Order in Docket
94-102, FCC 99-245, September 15, 1999. The disclosure shall be made
both orally and in writing as part of the sales communication, and in
the same language as the sales communication.
   (b) As used in this section, "E911" means the Enhanced 911
requirements as established by the Federal Communications Commission
in Docket 94-102 and subsequent dockets. E911 specifically includes
the capability to provide automatic location identification to the
public safety answering point, as established by Phase II of that
docket, and the provision of a dialable callback number, as
established by Phase I of that docket.