(WJET/WFXP)-- A bipartisan bill updating Pennsylvania's telemarketing laws is headed to the state House of Representatives following a unanimous vote Wednesday afternoon.

Known as Senate Bill 992, the legislation would expand the Telemarketer Registration Act, passed in 1996, by restricting what times telemarketers call people and the methods they use.

Should it be signed into law, telemarketing calls would be illegal on Sundays and between the hours of 7 p.m. through 9 a.m. while also covering text messages, voicemails and “ringless” voicemails, all things the primary sponsor of the bill, Senator Michele Brook (R-50), said are used to evade restrictions already in place.

Additionally, Brooks said the bill would widen the ban on telemarketers and the companies that hire them using AI to

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