Bill Summary for H 520 (2025-2026)

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Mar 25 2025

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
House Bill 520 (Public) Filed Tuesday, March 25, 2025
AN ACT TO ADDRESS ABUSE OF PRIVACY AND ACTS OF DECEPTION FROM TELEMARKETERS BY DISPLAYING PHONE NUMBERS THAT ARE FRAUDULENT AND MISREPRESENTATIVE OF THE ACTUAL CALLER.
Intro. by Brody, Bell, Dahle, Gable.

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Contains whereas clauses. Expands the General Assembly’s findings pertaining to telephone solicitations to include the finding that a telephone number is the property of a telephone subscriber, subject to the terms and conditions of the subscriber's contract with a telephone carrier. Expands the prohibition under GS 75-102(i) on misleading information being transmitted to users of caller identification technologies or otherwise block or misrepresent the origin of the telephone solicitation to also prohibit those actions from being done by the agent of a telephone solicitor. 

Enacts GS 75-104.1 preventing a telephone carrier from knowingly and intentionally transmitting, selling, or otherwise providing the numbers of telephone subscribers to any entity the telephone carrier knows will use the number to violate provisions of the act. Clarifies that a telephone carrier is not liable for a telemarketer’s violation of GS 75-102(i).

Expands the enforcement remedies under GS 75-105 for the described telephone subscribers to bring any action authorized pursuant GS 75-105 or GS Chapter 75 against the telemarketer initiating the call. Provides for an additional civil fine of $10,000 placed in knowing violation of GS 75-102(i) and makes such violations a Class H felony. 

Applies to phone calls placed on or after December 1, 2025.