Miss. Senate passed bill (SB-2362) to establish ‘no-call’ telemar...
Miss. Senate passed bill (SB-2362) to establish “no-call” telemarketing list administered by Miss. PSC for residential customers who don’t want to receive such calls. Bill hasn’t gone to House because some Senators want reconsideration of amendment that would ban…
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all telemarketing calls after 5 p.m. weekdays and anytime on weekends. Under bill, telemarketers would be forbidden to call phone subscribers on state list unless they had preexisting business relationship. Bill would require all telemarketers to register with PSC and consult no-call list before soliciting any Miss. phone subscriber. Telemarketers who ignored no-call list would face PSC-imposed fine of up to $5,000 for each number on list that they called. PSC would be given explicit jurisdiction over telemarketers and individual agents, even though they're not public utilities.