75R12129 CLG-F
By Davila H.B. No. 2966
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2966:
By Brimer C.S.H.B. No. 2966
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to consumer telephone calls made by a telephone solicitor.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 37.01(4) and (5), Business & Commerce
1-5 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (4) "Consumer telephone call" means an unsolicited
1-7 outbound call made to a residential telephone number by a telephone
1-8 solicitor to:
1-9 (A) solicit a sale or lease of a consumer good
1-10 or service;
1-11 (B) solicit an extension of credit for a
1-12 consumer good or service; [or]
1-13 (C) obtain information that will or may be used
1-14 to directly solicit a sale or lease of a consumer good or service
1-15 or to extend credit for the sale;
1-16 (D) generate an appointment for a later
1-17 face-to-face sales visit relating to a consumer good or service by
1-18 either the caller or the potential buyer; or
1-19 (E) solicit permission from a potential buyer to
1-20 receive sales literature on a consumer good or service from the
1-21 caller.
1-22 (5) "Telephone solicitor" means a person who makes or
1-23 causes to be made a consumer telephone call, including a call made
1-24 by an automated dialing device or other recorded message device.
2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.