March 27, 2008, Introduced by Senators JACOBS, ANDERSON, CHERRY, OLSHOVE, GLEASON, GARCIA, CLARK-COLEMAN and WHITMER and referred to the Committee on Energy Policy and Public Utilities.
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 making a telephone solicitation to a residential telephone
subscriber shall state his or her name and the full name of the
organization or other person on whose behalf the call was initiated
and provide a telephone number of the organization or other person
on request. A natural person must be available to answer the
telephone number at any time when telephone solicitations are being
made.
(2) The person answering the telephone number required under
subsection (1) shall provide 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 transmit caller identification
information when it makes a telephone solicitation and shall not
intentionally block, transmit "private", "unknown name", or
"unknown number", or otherwise interfere with the caller ID
function
on the telephone of a the residential telephone subscriber
to
whom a the telephone solicitation is made so that the telephone
number
or name of the caller telephone solicitor is not
displayed
on the telephone of the residential telephone subscriber.