Federal Deception Law: 6.3.4.7 Autodialer Definitions Under State Laws
Many states have their own laws that prohibit autodialed calls. A number of these laws define the term “autodialer” to require that the numbers be automatically dialed and that the call use an artificial or prerecorded voice, so are narrower than the TCPA. Some state laws do not have strong substantive restrictions and some do not offer a private cause of action. However, it may be possible to construe a few of them to prohibit autodialed calls more broadly than the TCPA and to provide a private cause of action.