89R3230 SRA-D
By: Dutton H.B. No. 2352
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring wireless telephone service providers and
mobile device manufacturers to disable certain stolen mobile
devices.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 10, Business & Commerce Code,
is amended by adding Chapter 307 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 307. DISABLING STOLEN MOBILE DEVICES
Sec. 307.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Authorized customer" means, with respect to a
mobile device:
(A) the person who holds the commercial wireless
telephone service account for the device; or
(B) if the device is a phone for which particular
amounts of service are purchased in advance, the person who owns the
phone.
(2) "Mobile device" means a handheld mobile device
that:
(A) is designed to enable the user to engage in
voice communications using a commercial wireless telephone
service;
(B) is capable of operating on a long-term
evolution network or successor wireless data network communication
standard; and
(C) may possess capabilities that include
built-in applications, Internet access, Internet browsing, digital
voice service, text messaging, and e-mail.
Sec. 307.002. DISABLING SERVICE TO STOLEN MOBILE DEVICES.
(a) A provider of wireless telephone services in this state may not
knowingly provide services on a mobile device that the provider
knows or has reason to believe is stolen.
(b) On receipt of notification from an authorized customer
that a mobile device has been stolen, a provider of wireless
telephone services shall suspend or otherwise cease providing
wireless telephone services to the device.
Sec. 307.003. DISABLING STOLEN MOBILE DEVICES. A
manufacturer of a mobile device to be sold in this state shall equip
the device or allow the device to be equipped with technology that
permits an authorized customer who reports the device stolen to
render the device inoperable.
SECTION 2. Section 307.003, Business & Commerce Code, as
added by this Act, applies only to a mobile device manufactured on
or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.