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Relating to telemarketing consumer frauds and modifying civil penalties
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 7, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 7, 2024
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary People who use lies or tricks to sell things or ask for charity over the phone would face higher fines. Currently, these scammers can be charged up to $40,000 for each violation. This change would increase that maximum penalty to $80,000 per violation.1
Read the official explanation
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. It hasn’t reported yet.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
Iowa Code it changes
Amends§714.16