Bill Text: TX HB2239 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain unsolicited mail by credit access businesses; providing a civil penalty.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-16 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB2239 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2239-Introduced.html
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| By: Turner of Tarrant | H.B. No. 2239 | |
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| relating to prohibiting certain unsolicited mail by credit access | ||
| businesses; providing a civil penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 393, Finance Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 393.629 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 393.629. CERTAIN UNSOLICITED MAIL PROHIBITED. (a) A | ||
| credit access business may not send unsolicited direct mail that | ||
| simulates or resembles a check or other negotiable instrument. | ||
| (b) A person who violates this section is liable to the | ||
| state for a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $100 for each | ||
| violation. The attorney general or the appropriate prosecuting | ||
| attorney in the county in which the violation occurs may bring an | ||
| action to recover the civil penalty imposed under this section. | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding Section 393.501, a violation under this | ||
| section is not a criminal offense. | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding Sections 393.502, 393.503, and 393.504, | ||
| this section does not create a private right of action. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
