By Chavez                                              H.B. No. 719
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the requirement that a telephone solicitor's caller
 1-3     identification information appear on caller identification units.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Section 55.1065(a), Utilities Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A telephone solicitor shall ensure that caller
 1-8     identification information for the telephone solicitor's lines used
 1-9     to make consumer telephone calls is displayed by a device capable
1-10     of displaying caller identification information, unless the
1-11     commission determines that it is not technically feasible.  A
1-12     telephone solicitor may not use any method, including per-call
1-13     blocking or per-line blocking, that prevents caller identification
1-14     information for the telephone solicitor's lines used to make
1-15     consumer telephone calls from being shown by a device capable of
1-16     displaying caller identification information.
1-17           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.