Terry Wilson, Texas State Representative of 20th district | Facebook
Terry Wilson, Texas State Representative of 20th district | Facebook
More specifically, the official text was summarized by the state legislature as ’’Relating to private rights of action arising from certain solicitation-related communications’’.
The following is our breakdown, based on the actual bill text, and may include interpretation to clarify its provisions.
This bill amends various sections of the Texas Business & Commerce Code to address telephone solicitation and telemarketing practices. It broadens the definition of "telephone solicitation" to include calls or transmissions, including text or graphics sent by sellers to induce purchases or other actions. The bill mandates a liberal construction of relevant chapters to enhance protection against deceptive telemarketing activities, allowing repeated claimant recovery without limiting future legal proceedings. It classifies violations as deceptive acts under Chapter 17, offering public or private enforcement remedies. The updates take effect September 1, 2025, and apply to conduct occurring on or after this date.
Terry Wilson, chair of the House Committee on Higher Education and member of the House Committee on Redistricting, proposed another seven bills during the 89(R) legislative session.
Wilson graduated from Texas A&M University in 1990 with a BS.
Terry Wilson is currently serving in the Texas State House, representing the state's 20th House district. He replaced previous state representative Marsha Farney in 2017.
Bills in Texas go through a multi-step legislative process, including committee review, debates, and votes in both chambers before reaching a final decision. Each session, there are typically thousands of bills introduced, but only a portion successfully navigate the process to become law.
You can read more about the bills and other measures here.
| Bill Number | Date Introduced | Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| HB 4980 | 04/03/2025 | Relating to establishing the Child-Care Professional Pathway program |
| HB 4953 | 04/03/2025 | Relating to the designation of Ranch-to-Market Road 1431 in Llano, Burnet, Travis, and Williamson Counties as the Gary P. Nunn Memorial Highway |
| HB 4892 | 04/03/2025 | Relating to the creation of an additional judicial district in Williamson County |
| HB 127 | 04/02/2025 | Relating to measures to protect public institutions of higher education from foreign adversaries and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of theft of trade secrets; providing civil and administrative penalties; increasing a criminal penalty |
| HB 1018 | 03/07/2025 | Relating to the establishment of a certification program for public work contracting purposes for operators of certain facilities that emit air contaminants |
| HB 982 | 03/06/2025 | Relating to the authority of a taxing unit other than a school district, county, municipality, or junior college district to establish a limitation on the amount of ad valorem taxes that the taxing unit may impose on the residence homesteads of certain low-income individuals who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses |
| HB 873 | 03/05/2025 | Relating to air quality permits for aggregate production operations and concrete batch plants |
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