Bill Text: TX SB2140 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the amount of civil penalties the attorney general may seek to recover under the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-25 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB2140 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2140-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 2140 |
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relating to the amount of civil penalties the attorney general may | ||
seek to recover under the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer | ||
Protection Act. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 17.47(c), Business & Commerce Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) In addition to the request for a temporary restraining | ||
order, or permanent injunction in a proceeding brought under | ||
Subsection (a) of this section, the consumer protection division | ||
may request, and the trier of fact may award, a civil penalty to be | ||
paid to the state in an amount of: | ||
(1) not more than $10,000 [ |
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(2) if the act or practice that is the subject of the | ||
proceeding was calculated to acquire or deprive money or other | ||
property from a consumer who was 65 years of age or older when the | ||
act or practice occurred, an additional amount of not more than | ||
$250,000. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
an action filed by the consumer protection division under Section | ||
17.47, Business & Commerce Code, on or after the effective date of | ||
this Act. An action filed by the consumer protection division under | ||
Section 17.47, Business & Commerce Code, before the effective date | ||
of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the action | ||
is filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2140 passed the Senate on | ||
April 17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2140 passed the House on | ||
May 14, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 5, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |