Tracker record · Texas · Statute
Texas telemarketing and text-message law
Texas telephone-solicitation and text-message rules layer atop the federal TCPA: consent, registration, calling-time and identification duties, and litigation risk that is fact-dependent and frequent.
Status
- Legal status
- In effect
- Allegation or finding
- Operative law
- Applicability
- Telephone solicitors and text senders contacting Texas residents
- Enforceability
- Binding on parties within scope
- Effective date
- SB 140: September 1, 2025
- Law checked through
- October 12, 2026
- Citation
- Bus. & Com. Code ch. 302 (registration), ch. 304 (Texas no-call list), and ch. 305 (consent for marketing texts); SB 140 (2025) brings texts into ch. 302 and adds DTPA private actions for chs. 304 and 305
- Source
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code chs. 302, 304, and 305; SB 140, 89th Legislature (2025)