Bill Text: TX HB1992 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting telemarketers from transmitting misleading caller identification information or otherwise misrepresenting the origin of a telemarketing call.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1992 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1992-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1992 | ||
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| relating to prohibiting telemarketers from transmitting misleading | ||
| caller identification information or otherwise misrepresenting the | ||
| origin of a telemarketing call. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 304.151, Business & Commerce Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) A telemarketer may not: | ||
| (1) interfere with or circumvent the capability of a | ||
| caller identification service or device to access or provide to the | ||
| recipient of the telemarketing call any information regarding the | ||
| call that the service or device is capable of providing; [ |
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| (2) fail to provide caller identification information | ||
| in a manner that is accessible by a caller identification service or | ||
| device, if the telemarketer is capable of providing the information | ||
| in that manner; or | ||
| (3) cause misleading information to be transmitted to | ||
| a recipient's caller identification service or device or to | ||
| otherwise misrepresent the origin of a telemarketing call. | ||
| (c) A telemarketer does not violate Subsection (b)(3) if the | ||
| telemarketer substitutes the name and telephone number of the | ||
| person on whose behalf the call is made for the telemarketer's name | ||
| and telephone number. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1992 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1992 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
