BILL NUMBER: AB 792	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Duvall

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to amend Section 17514 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to business.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 792, as introduced, Duvall. Business: mail solicitations.
   Existing law requires a person who sends a solicitation by mail
soliciting the recipient to receive information by telephone to
disclose specified information, including, without limitation, the
telephone number to which calls are to be placed.
   This bill would require the person to disclose additional
telephone numbers, if applicable.
   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 17514 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   17514.  (a) A person who sends a solicitation by mail that
solicits a recipient to consent to receive information via telephone,
where that recipient's telephone number is not listed on the
national "do not call" registry established and maintained by the
Federal Trade Commission, as described in Section 310.4(b)(1)(iii)(B)
of Title 16 of the Code of Federal Regulations, shall include in the
solicitation a clear and conspicuous disclosure of the following
information:
   (1) Identification of the name of the sender of the mailing and of
the entity that is requesting permission to call.
   (2) The telephone number  or numbers  to which calls are
to be placed.
   (3) Notice that the recipient may be contacted by a telephone
solicitor.
   (b) A violation of this section shall not be a crime,
notwithstanding Section 17534. However, all available civil remedies
that are applicable to a violation of this section may be employed.