Bill Text: TX HB3710 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the advertisement of prices by persons selling motor fuel.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB3710 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3710-Introduced.html
| By: Bryant | H.B. No. 3710 | |
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| relating to the advertisement of prices by persons selling motor | ||
| fuel. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the Transparency at the | ||
| Pump Act of 2023. | ||
| SECTION 2. Title 12, Business & Commerce Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Chapter 610 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 610. TRANSPARENCY IN MOTOR FUEL PRICING | ||
| Sec. 610.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Merchant" means a person whose business includes | ||
| the sale of motor fuel through motor fuel dispensers to retail | ||
| customers. | ||
| (2) "Motor fuel" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 162.001, Tax Code. | ||
| (3) "Credit card" means an identification card, plate, | ||
| coupon, book, or number or any other device authorizing a | ||
| designated person or bearer to obtain property or service on | ||
| credit. | ||
| (4) "Debit card" means an identification card, plate, | ||
| coupon, book, or number or any other device authorizing a | ||
| designated person or bearer to communicate a request to an unmanned | ||
| teller machine or a customer convenience terminal or to obtain | ||
| property or services by debit to an account at a financial | ||
| institution. | ||
| Sec. 610.002. MOTOR FUEL PRICE DISPLAY REQUIREMENTS. (a) A | ||
| merchant shall display the price of the motor fuel mixtures sold by | ||
| the merchant with a prominent sign: | ||
| (1) on the motor fuel pump; and | ||
| (2) by the roadside adjacent to the merchant's | ||
| premises. | ||
| (b) A merchant shall visibly differentiate the price of the | ||
| motor fuel mixtures sold by the merchant to a retail customer paying | ||
| with: | ||
| (1) cash, a debit card, or a gift card; or | ||
| (2) a credit card. | ||
| (c) A merchant shall visibly display on the motor fuel pump | ||
| any difference between the price of the motor fuel mixture sold by | ||
| the merchant to a retail customer paying with cash and the price a | ||
| retail customer paying with a debit card, gift card, or credit card | ||
| would pay. | ||
| (d) A merchant that sells more than one grade of a certain | ||
| motor fuel may display the price of only the lowest grade of each | ||
| motor fuel sold. | ||
| Sec. 610.003. VIOLATION OF CHAPTER; DECEPTIVE TRADE | ||
| PRACTICE. A violation of this chapter is a deceptive trade practice | ||
| under Subchapter B, Chapter 17, and is actionable under that | ||
| subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to an advertisement or sale of motor fuel that takes place on or | ||
| after April 1, 2024. An advertisement or sale of motor fuel that | ||
| takes place before April 1, 2024, is governed by the law in effect | ||
| on the date the advertisement or sale of motor fuel took place, and | ||
| the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
