Florida Senate - 2022                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1564
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Regulated Industries (Hutson) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 38 - 68
    4  and insert:
    5  selection and or dialing of telephone numbers, or the playing of
    6  a recorded message when a connection is completed to a number
    7  called, the transmission of a text message, or the transmission
    8  of a prerecorded voicemail; and
    9         b. He or she is not required to directly or indirectly sign
   10  the written agreement or to agree to enter into such an
   11  agreement as a condition of purchasing any property, goods, or
   12  services.
   13         (k) “Unsolicited telephonic sales call” means a telephonic
   14  sales call other than a call made:
   15         1. Within 120 days after In response to an express request
   16  of the person called party;
   17         2. Primarily in connection with an existing debt or
   18  contract, if payment or performance of such debt or contract has
   19  not been completed at the time of such call;
   20         3. To a person with whom the telephone solicitor has a
   21  prior or existing business relationship; or
   22         4. By a newspaper publisher or his or her agent or employee
   23  in connection with his or her business; or
   24         5. For the purpose of polling or soliciting the expression
   25  of ideas, opinions, or votes, including when such polling or
   26  soliciting is made by text message.
   27         (8)(a) A person may not make or knowingly allow a
   28  telephonic sales call to be made if such call involves an
   29  automated system for the selection and or dialing of telephone
   30  numbers, or the playing of a recorded message when a connection
   31  is completed to a number called, the transmission of a text
   32  message, or the transmission of a prerecorded voicemail without
   33  the prior express written consent of the called party.
   34         (e) This subsection does not prohibit the use of an
   35  automated system for the selection and dialing of telephone
   36  numbers with live messages or text messages if the call or
   37  message is made solely in response to an inquiry initiated by
   38  the called party. However, only three such
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   41  And the title is amended as follows:
   42         Delete lines 4 - 6
   43  and insert:
   44         provision to changes made by the act; prohibiting the
   45         use of automated telephone dialing systems using
   46         certain types of messages under certain circumstances;
   47         authorizing such use in response to certain inquiries;
   48         providing a