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                          HOUSE BILL 2614

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2002 Regular Session

By Representatives Lysen, Casada, Romero, Kenney, Berkey, Sullivan, Wood, Nixon, Hunt, Anderson, Kagi, Linville, Bush, Haigh, Esser, Dickerson, McDermott, O'Brien, Darneille, Chase, Cody, Kirby, Lovick, Fromhold, McIntire, Orcutt, Miloscia, Mulliken, Rockefeller, Campbell, Ogden, Santos, Hatfield, Schual‑Berke, Conway, Jackley and Simpson

Read first time 01/22/2002.  Referred to Committee on Technology, Telecommunications & Energy.

Prohibiting a telephone solicitor from blocking its identity.

    AN ACT Relating to commercial telephone solicitation; and adding new sections to chapter 19.158 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 19.158 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) A telephone solicitor may not, in making a telephone solicitation call, block the identity of the telephone number from which the telephone call is made to evade devices designed to identify telephone callers.

    (2) A telephone solicitor may not:

    (a) Interfere with or circumvent the capability of a caller identification service to access or provide to the recipient of the telephone solicitation call any information regarding the call that the service is capable of providing; and

    (b) Fail to provide caller identification information in a manner that is accessible by a caller identification service, if the person has capability to provide the information in that manner.

    (3) For purposes of this section, the use of telecommunication service or equipment that is incapable of transmitting caller identification information does not of itself constitute interference with or circumvention of the capability of a caller identification service to access or provide the information.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 19.158 RCW to read as follows:

    The department of licensing must investigate complaints concerning violations of section 1 of this act by a licensee and may assess an administrative penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars for each violation.  In addition, if the department of licensing finds that the licensee willfully or knowingly violated section 1 of this act, the department of licensing may suspend or revoke the licensee's license.

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