Bill Text: TX HB3702 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the amount of civil penalties the attorney general may seek to recover under the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3702 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3702-Introduced.html
| By: Burrows | H.B. No. 3702 | |
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| relating to the amount of civil penalties the attorney general may | ||
| seek to recover under the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer | ||
| Protection Act. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 17.47(c), Business & Commerce Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (c) In addition to the request for a temporary restraining | ||
| order, or permanent injunction in a proceeding brought under | ||
| Subsection (a) of this section, the consumer protection division | ||
| may request, and the trier of fact may award, a civil penalty to be | ||
| paid to the state in an amount of: | ||
| (1) not more than $10,000 [ |
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| (2) if the act or practice that is the subject of the | ||
| proceeding was calculated to acquire or deprive money or other | ||
| property from a consumer who was 65 years of age or older when the | ||
| act or practice occurred, an additional amount of not more than | ||
| $250,000. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply to an | ||
| action filed by the consumer protection division under Section | ||
| 17.47, Business and Commerce Code, on or after the effective date o | ||
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| this Act. A action filed action filed by the consumer protection | ||
| division under Section 17.47, Business and Commerce Code, before | ||
| the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on | ||
| the date the action is filed, and the former law is continued in | ||
| effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
