North Carolina cuts telemarketer opt-out grace period to 30 days and expands joint liability for illegal auto-dialed calls

Original title: Strengthen Do Not Call/Text Registry.

Last action · April 14, 2025: Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House (House action)Sponsors: Pricey Harrison and 23 others

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What This Bill Would Do

North Carolina tightens telemarketing rules by requiring solicitors and their affiliates to remove numbers from contact lists within 30 business days instead of 60 after a consumer requests no further calls. The measure also holds businesses jointly liable if they accept sales leads or inbound calls generated by illegal s.

Why it matters

Residents receive fewer unwanted sales calls and texts more quickly after opting out, while businesses face direct legal liability for accepting leads generated through illegal automated calling practices.

Who It Would Affect

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Directly affected

Telephone subscribers

Residential subscribers listed on the Do Not Call Registry will have their numbers removed from solicitor contact lists within 30 business days instead of 60 after requesting no further calls.

Directly affected

Telephone solicitors

Solicitors and affiliates face a shortened 30-day window to clear opted-out numbers from their lists and are subject to expanded definitions regarding text communications.

Directly affected

Businesses receiving sales leads

Companies that accept inbound calls or sales leads face joint liability if those leads were generated through illegal automatic dialing and recorded message players.

Key Facts

Telephone solicitors and their affiliates must remove a residential subscriber's number from contact lists within 30 business days after the subscriber communicates a desire to receive no further calls, reduced from the previous 60-day limit.
Any party that knows or has reason to know that accepted sales leads or inbound calls were generated by illegal automatic dialing and recorded message players is jointly liable under the act.
The definition of telephone solicitation is updated to explicitly include text communications over a telephone line, wireless telephone network, or commercial mobile radio service.
The definition of telephone solicitor is expanded to include any party that receives a sales lead or inbound call from a subscriber and knows or has reason to know the lead was generated by a telephone call.

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The restrictions on using automatic dialing and recorded message players apply to any person acting directly or through a salesperson, agent, subagent, contractor, or third-party vendor.
The act becomes effective when it becomes law.

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens to businesses that buy sales leads generated by illegal auto-dialers?

Any party that knows or has reason to know that the sales leads or inbound calls they receive were generated by illegal s is held jointly liable for each call or lead received.

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Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.

Procedural history

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Apr 14, 2025House
Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Apr 14, 2025House
Passed 1st Reading
Apr 10, 2025HouseIntroduced
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