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HB 204 Customer telecommunications services; authorization and verification for products on telephone bill.

Introduced by: Kenneth C. Alexander | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Unauthorized addition of telecommunications services.  Prohibits a telephone service provider or billing agent from willfully adding products, goods, or services not authorized by any customer, and from charging or attempting to collect charges from any customer for any such products, goods, or services without the customer's authorization. A customer will not be liable for charges through a billing carrier by a service provider or a billing agent without the customer's authorization. The measure requires service providers and billing agents to obtain written, oral, or electronic verification of a customer's authorization before submitting charges for products, goods, or services to the billing carrier.


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