BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 2795 By: Homer Business & Industry Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Amid complaints caused by the growth of unsolicited telemarketing phone calls, the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, created a Texas No Call List. In recent years, calls declaring that a person's motor vehicle warranty is about to expire have become frequent enough to again raise consumer complaints. H.B. 2795 adds contractual services, including the extension of a warranty for a motor vehicle, to the definition of a type of telemarketing call included under the Texas No Call List. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 2795 amends the Business & Commerce Code to specify that a "consumer good or service," for the purposes of provisions regulating telemarketing calls, means a contractual service that is normally used for personal, family, or household purposes, in addition to property normally used for those purposes, and includes the extension of a warranty for a motor vehicle. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2009.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 2795
By: Homer
Business & Industry
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 2795
By: Homer
Business & Industry
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Amid complaints caused by the growth of unsolicited telemarketing phone calls, the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, created a Texas No Call List. In recent years, calls declaring that a person's motor vehicle warranty is about to expire have become frequent enough to again raise consumer complaints. H.B. 2795 adds contractual services, including the extension of a warranty for a motor vehicle, to the definition of a type of telemarketing call included under the Texas No Call List.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 2795 amends the Business & Commerce Code to specify that a "consumer good or service," for the purposes of provisions regulating telemarketing calls, means a contractual service that is normally used for personal, family, or household purposes, in addition to property normally used for those purposes, and includes the extension of a warranty for a motor vehicle.
EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2009.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Amid complaints caused by the growth of unsolicited telemarketing phone calls, the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, created a Texas No Call List. In recent years, calls declaring that a person's motor vehicle warranty is about to expire have become frequent enough to again raise consumer complaints.
H.B. 2795 adds contractual services, including the extension of a warranty for a motor vehicle, to the definition of a type of telemarketing call included under the Texas No Call List.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 2795 amends the Business & Commerce Code to specify that a "consumer good or service," for the purposes of provisions regulating telemarketing calls, means a contractual service that is normally used for personal, family, or household purposes, in addition to property normally used for those purposes, and includes the extension of a warranty for a motor vehicle.
EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2009.