00HOUSE BILL NO. 261                                                                                                      
01 "An Act relating to telephone directory listings and solicitations."                                                    
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 45.50.471(b) is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                          
04   (33)  failing to comply with AS 45.50.475.                                                                           
05    * Sec. 2.  AS 45.50 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                      
06  Sec. 45.50.475.  UNLAWFUL TELEPHONE SOLICITATION IF PARTY                                                             
07 IDENTIFIED IN TELEPHONE DIRECTORY.  (a)  A person is in violation of                                                    
08 AS 45.50.471(b)(33) if the person engages in the telephone solicitation of a party and                                  
09 that party is identified in the party's telephone directory as a party that does not wish                               
10 to receive telephone solicitations.                                                                                     
11  (b)  A local exchange telecommunications company and a company that                                                   
12 provides a telephone directory on behalf of a local exchange telecommunications                                         
13 company shall provide for the identification of those parties in a telephone directory                                  
14 who do not wish to receive telephone solicitations.                                                                     

01  (c)  Local exchange telecommunications companies shall inform parties of the                                          
02 provisions of this section.  Notification may be made by                                                                
03   (1)  annual inserts in the billing statements mailed to parties; or                                                  
04   (2)  conspicuous publication of the notice in the consumer information                                               
05 pages of local telephone directories.                                                                                   
06  (d)  In this section,                                                                                                 
07   (1)  "party" means a residential telephone customer of a                                                             
08 telecommunications company;                                                                                             
09   (2)  "telephone solicitation"                                                                                        
10   (A)  means the solicitation by a person by telephone of a party                                                     
11 at the residence of the party for the purpose of encouraging the party to                                               
12 purchase property, goods, or services, or make a donation;                                                              
13   (B)  does not include                                                                                               
14   (i)  calls made in response to a request or inquiry by the                                                         
15 called party;                                                                                                           
16   (ii)  calls made by a charitable organization, a public                                                            
17 agency, or volunteers on behalf of the organization or agency to                                                        
18 members of the organization or agency or to persons who have made                                                       
19 a donation to the organization or agency or expressed an interest in                                                    
20 making a donation;                                                                                                      
21   (iii)  calls limited to polling or soliciting the expression                                                       
22 of ideas, opinions, or votes;                                                                                           
23   (iv)  business-to-business calls; or                                                                               
24   (v)  a person soliciting business from prospective                                                                 
25 purchasers who have previously purchased from the person making the                                                     
26 solicitation or from the business enterprise for which the person is                                                    
27 calling.