Virginia HB 743

Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act; voice service providers; duty of care; caller identification authentication; civil penalties. Provides that a voice service provider, defined in the bill, owes an affirmative duty of care to take reasonable and effective measures to prevent the origination, transmission, and completion of unlawful calls. The bill requires voice service providers to implement caller identification authentication technology consistent with the Secure Telephone Identity Revisited and Secure Handling of Asserted information using toKENs (STIR/SHAKEN) authentication framework, defined in the bill, in all internet protocol network segments under its control and shall implement functionally equivalent authentication, verification, or mitigation measures in non-internet protocol network segments to the extent technically feasible. The bill provides that a violation of its provisions constitutes a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.