SF 2239: Relating to telemarketing consumer frauds and modifying civil penalties

What it does

This bill relates to telemarketing consumer fraud and modifies civil penalties. Under current law, it is a consumer fraud for a person to act, use, or employ an unfair practice, deception, fraud, false pretense, false promise, and misrepresentation or concealment, suppression, and omission of a material fact with the intent for another person to rely on the act or omission in connection with a sale, lease, or advertisement of merchandise or in the solicitation of contributions for a charitable purpose regardless of whether the person had been misled, deceived, or damaged. A person who does so is subject to a civil penalty no greater than $40,000 per violation. Under the bill, a person who does so over the telephone is subject to an $80,000 civil penalty per violation.

Senate subcommittee · named February 7, 2024

• Sen. Mike Bousselot (R) · mike.bousselot@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Izaah Knox (D) · izaah.knox@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Scott Webster (R) · scott.webster@legis.iowa.gov

In plain words

1. February 7, 2024Filed in the Senate and sent to the Judiciary committee
2. February 7, 2024Senate subcommittee named: Bousselot, Knox and Webster