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Enrolled Bill Summary

Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 86(R)

House Bill 1992

House Author:  Leman et al.

Effective:  9-1-19

Senate Sponsor:  Schwertner et al.


            House Bill 1992 amends the Business & Commerce Code to prohibit a telemarketer from causing misleading information to be transmitted to a recipient's caller identification service or device or otherwise misrepresenting the origin of a telemarketing call and to except from this prohibition a telemarketer that substitutes the name and telephone number of the person on whose behalf the call is made for the telemarketer's name and telephone number.