A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to modernize notice requirements for protections for telephone subscribers who wish to stop unwanted telephone solicitations and for consumers who enter into telemarketing transactions.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 75‑102(m) reads as rewritten:
"(m)	The Attorney General, in consultation with the Public Staff of the Public Utilities Commission, shall draft the contents of a bill insert, bill message, or direct mail, including e-mail when affirmatively selected by the customer, that notifies consumers of the existence of the "Do Not Call" Registry and provides information to consumers on how to use it and the other provisions of this Article to object to receiving telephone solicitations. Local exchange companies shall distribute the insert pursuant to G.S. 62‑54."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 62‑54 reads as written:
"§ 62‑54.  Notification of opportunity to object to telephone solicitation.
The Commission shall require each local exchange company and each competing local provider certified to do business in North Carolina to notify all telephone subscribers who subscribe to residential service from that company of the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 75 of the General Statutes and of the federal laws and regulations allowing consumers to object to receiving telephone solicitations, by enclosing a bill insert, bill message, or direct mail, including e-mail when affirmatively selected by the customer, drafted pursuant to G.S. 75‑102(m), at least  annually. The Commission shall also ensure that this information is printed in a clear, conspicuous manner in the consumer information pages of each telephone directory distributed to residential customers."
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2009.