H4812 • 2025

An Act relative to restricting telemarketer phone numbers

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Sponsor: Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure (J)
Last action: 2025-12-08
Official status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act relative to restricting telemarketer phone numbers

An Act relative to restricting telemarketer phone numbers Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

What This Bill Does

An Act relative to restricting telemarketer phone numbers Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill History

2025-12-08 House
Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
2025-12-08 House
New draft of H3940
2025-12-08 House
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to restricting telemarketer phone numbers
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill H.4812

Chapter 159C of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following new section:-

Section 15. (a) A telephone solicitor shall not make or cause to be made an unsolicited telephonic sales call to a consumer using local phone numbers or area codes that are not linked to their physical location or place of business in the commonwealth.

(b) The attorney general shall enforce and may issue fines to telephone solicitors who violate this section pursuant to section 8.

(c) The attorney general shall report violations of this section to the advisory group pursuant to section 14 which shall provide a mechanism for consumers to track complaints.

(d) The office, in consultation with the attorney general, shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement this section.

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