Cybersecurity Policy Report, N.C. Senate OKs Bill to Restrict Robocalls, ‘Spoofing’, (Jun 18, 2026)
The North Carolina state Senate voted this week to pass a bill that would modify the state’s telephone solicitation laws to require prior express written consent from subscribers to receive robocalls.
HB 936 defines prior express written consent as “an agreement, in writing, bearing the signature of the telephone subscriber that clearly authorizes the telephone solicitor to deliver or cause to be delivered to the telephone subscriber telephone solicitations, and the telephone number to which the signatory authorizes such telephone solicitations to be delivered.”
In addition, the bill defines a robocall as a “voice communication that delivers artificial, artificially generated, or prerecorded voice messages, in whole or in part, including, but not limited to, telephone calls utilizing soundboard technology and ringless voicemail messages.” Under the bill, robocalls would include “spam and scam text messages received by a telephone subscriber through a messaging application.”
The bill would restrict robocalls before 8 a.m. and after 9 p.m. The bill would also place additional restrictions on “call spoofing” and impersonating government officials. It provides that no telephone solicitor or robocaller “shall cause misleading information to be transmitted to users of caller identification technologies or otherwise block or misrepresent the origin of a telephone solicitation or robocall.”
The bill, if enacted, would become effective Oct. 1.
The bill (H.B. 936, Reg Sess.) is sponsored by Rep. Dudley Greene (R.).
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