BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS
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ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 1.001.
This Act is enacted as part of the state’s continuing statutory revision program under Chapter 323, Government Code. This Act is a revision for purposes of Section 43, Article III, Texas Constitution, and has the purposes of:
(1) codifying without substantive change or providing for other appropriate disposition of various statutes that were omitted from enacted codes;
(2) conforming codifications enacted by the 84th Legislature to other Acts of that legislature that amended the laws codified or added new law to subject matter codified;
(3) revising without substantive change provisions in enacted codes;
(4) making necessary corrections to enacted codes; and
(5) renumbering or otherwise redesignating titles,chapters, and sections of codes that duplicate title, chapter, or section designations.
SECTION 1.002.
(a) The repeal of a statute by this Act does not affect an amendment, revision, or reenactment of the statute by the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017. The amendment, revision, or reenactment is preserved and given effect as part of the code provision that revised the statute so amended, revised, or reenacted.
(b) If any provision of this Act conflicts with a statute enacted by the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, the statute controls.
SECTION 1.003.
(a) A transition or saving provision of a law codified by this Act applies to the codified law to the same extent as it applied to the original law.
(b) The repeal of a transition or saving provision by this Act does not affect the application of the provision to the codified law.
(c) In this section, “transition provision” includes any temporary provision providing for a special situation in the transition period between the existing law and the establishment or implementation of the new law.
SECTION 1.004.
(a) The repeal of a law, including a validating law, by this Act does not remove, void, or otherwise affect in any manner a validation under the repealed law. The validation is preserved and continues to have the same effect that it would have if the law were not repealed.
(b) Subsection (a) of this section does not diminish the saving provisions prescribed by Section 311.031, Government Code.
ARTICLE 2. CHANGES RELATING TO AGRICULTURE CODE
SECTION 2.001. The heading to Chapter 47, Agriculture Code, is amended to conform to Section 2, Chapter 965 (H.B. 1903), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, to read as follows:
SECTION 2.002. The heading to Subchapter B, Chapter 47,Agriculture Code, is repealed to conform to Section 2, Chapter 965 (H.B. 1903), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013.
SECTION 2.003. Section 47.051, Agriculture Code, is amended to conform to Section 2, Chapter 965 (H.B. 1903), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, to read as follows:
Sec. 47.051. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter [subchapter]:
(1) “Advisory committee” means the shrimp advisory committee.
(2) “Coastal waters” means all the salt water of the state, including the portion of the Gulf of Mexico that is within the jurisdiction of the state.
(3) “Program” means the Texas shrimp marketing assistance program.
(4) “Shrimp marketing account” means the account in the general revenue fund established under Section 77.002(b), Parks and Wildlife Code.
(5) “Texas-produced shrimp” means wild-caught shrimp commercially harvested from coastal waters by a shrimp boat licensed by the Parks and Wildlife Department.
SECTION 2.004. Section 47.053(a), Agriculture Code, is amended to conform to Section 2, Chapter 965 (H.B. 1903), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, to read as follows:
(a) The commissioner shall appoint a shrimp advisory committee to assist the commissioner in implementing the program established under this chapter [subchapter] and in the expenditure of funds appropriated for the purpose of this chapter [subchapter].
SECTION 2.005. Section 50D.021(e), Agriculture Code, is amended to read as follows:
(e) Subject to Section 50D.026, the research committee is subject to Chapters 551 and 2001, Government Code.
ARTICLE 3. CHANGES RELATING TO BUSINESS & COMMERCE CODE
SECTION 3.001. Section 17.46(b), Business & Commerce Code, as amended by Chapters 1023 (H.B. 1265) and 1080 (H.B. 2573), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
(b) Except as provided in Subsection (d) of this section, the term “false, misleading, or deceptive acts or practices” includes, but is not limited to, the following acts:
(1) passing off goods or services as those of another;
(2) causing confusion or misunderstanding as to the source, sponsorship, approval, or certification of goods or
(3) causing confusion or misunderstanding as to affiliation, connection, or association with, or certification by, another;
(4) using deceptive representations or designations of geographic origin in connection with goods or services;
(5) representing that goods or services have sponsorship, approval, characteristics, ingredients, uses, benefits, or quantities which they do not have or that a person has a sponsorship, approval, status, affiliation, or connection which the person does not;
(6) representing that goods are original or new if they are deteriorated, reconditioned, reclaimed, used, or secondhand;
(7) representing that goods or services are of a particular standard, quality, or grade, or that goods are of a particular style or model, if they are of another;
(8) disparaging the goods, services, or business of another by false or misleading representation of facts;
(9) advertising goods or services with intent not to sell them as advertised;
(10) advertising goods or services with intent not to supply a reasonable expectable public demand, unless the advertisements disclosed a limitation of quantity;
(11) making false or misleading statements of fact concerning the reasons for, existence of, or amount of price reductions;
(12) representing that an agreement confers or involves rights, remedies, or obligations which it does not have or involve, or which are prohibited by law;
(13) knowingly making false or misleading statements of fact concerning the need for parts, replacement, or repair service;
(14) misrepresenting the authority of a salesman, representative or agent to negotiate the final terms of a consumer transaction;
(15) basing a charge for the repair of any item in whole or in part on a guaranty or warranty instead of on the value of the actual repairs made or work to be performed on the item without stating separately the charges for the work and the charge for the warranty or guaranty, if any;
(16) disconnecting, turning back, or resetting the odometer of any motor vehicle so as to reduce the number of miles indicated on the odometer gauge;
(17) advertising of any sale by fraudulently representing that a person is going out of business;
(18) advertising, selling, or distributing a card which purports to be a prescription drug identification card issued under Section 4151.152, Insurance Code, in accordance with rules adopted by the commissioner of insurance, which offers a discount on the purchase of health care goods or services from a third party provider, and which is not evidence of insurance coverage, unless:
(A) the discount is authorized under an agreement between the seller of the card and the provider of those goods and services or the discount or card is offered to members of the seller;
(B) the seller does not represent that the card provides insurance coverage of any kind; and
(C) the discount is not false, misleading, or deceptive;
(19) using or employing a chain referral sales plan in connection with the sale or offer to sell of goods, merchandise, or anything of value, which uses the sales technique, plan, arrangement, or agreement in which the buyer or prospective buyer is offered the opportunity to purchase merchandise or goods and in connection with the purchase receives the seller’s promise or representation that the buyer shall have the right to receive compensation or consideration in any form for furnishing to the seller the names of other prospective buyers if receipt of the compensation or consideration is contingent upon the occurrence of an event subsequent to the time the buyer purchases the merchandise or goods;
(20) representing that a guaranty or warranty confers or involves rights or remedies which it does not have or involve, provided, however, that nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to expand the implied warranty of merchantability as defined in Sections 2.314 through 2.318 and Sections 2A.212 through 2A.216 to involve obligations in excess of those which are appropriate to the goods;
(21) promoting a pyramid promotional scheme, as defined by Section 17.461;
(22) representing that work or services have been performed on, or parts replaced in, goods when the work or services were not performed or the parts replaced;
(23) filing suit founded upon a written contractual obligation of and signed by the defendant to pay money arising out of or based on a consumer transaction for goods, services, loans, or extensions of credit intended primarily for personal, family, household, or agricultural use in any county other than in the county in which the defendant resides at the time of the commencement of the action or in the county in which the defendant in fact signed the contract; provided, however, that a violation of this subsection shall not occur where it is shown by the person filing such suit that the person neither knew or had reason to know that the county in which such suit was filed was neither the county in which the defendant resides at the commencement of the suit nor the county in which the defendant in fact signed the contract;
(24) failing to disclose information concerning goods or services which was known at the time of the transaction if such failure to disclose such information was intended to induce the consumer into a transaction into which the consumer would not have entered had the information been disclosed;
(25) using the term “corporation,” “incorporated,” or an abbreviation of either of those terms in the name of a business entity that is not incorporated under the laws of this state or another jurisdiction;
(26) selling, offering to sell, or illegally promoting an annuity contract under Chapter 22, Acts of the 57th Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 1962 (Article 6228a-5, Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes), with the intent that the annuity contract will be the subject of a salary reduction agreement, as defined by that Act, if the annuity contract is not an eligible qualified investment under that Act or is not registered with the Teacher Retirement System of Texas as required by Section 8A of that Act;
(27) taking advantage of a disaster declared by the governor under Chapter 418, Government Code, by:
(A) selling or leasing fuel, food, medicine, or another necessity at an exorbitant or excessive price; or
(B) demanding an exorbitant or excessive price in connection with the sale or lease of fuel, food, medicine, or another necessity;
(28) using the translation into a foreign language of a title or other word, including “attorney,” “lawyer,” “licensed,” “notary,” and “notary public,” in any written or electronic material, including an advertisement, a business card, a letterhead, stationery, a website, or an online video, in reference to a person who is not an attorney in order to imply that the person is authorized to practice law in the United States;
(29) [(28)] delivering or distributing a solicitation in connection with a good or service that:
(A) represents that the solicitation is sent on behalf of a governmental entity when it is not; or
(B) resembles a governmental notice or form that represents or implies that a criminal penalty may be imposed if the recipient does not remit payment for the good or service;
(30) [(29)] delivering or distributing a solicitation in connection with a good or service that resembles a check or other negotiable instrument or invoice, unless the portion of the solicitation that resembles a check or other negotiable instrument or invoice includes the following notice, clearly and conspicuously printed in at least 18-point type: “SPECIMEN-NON-NEGOTIABLE”;
(31) [(30)] in the production, sale, distribution, or promotion of a synthetic substance that produces and is intended to produce an effect when consumed or ingested similar to, or in excess of, the effect of a controlled substance or controlled substance analogue, as those terms are defined by Section 481.002, Health and Safety Code:
(A) making a deceptive representation or designation about the synthetic substance; or
(B) causing confusion or misunderstanding as to the effects the synthetic substance causes when consumed or ingested; or
(32) [(31)] a licensed public insurance adjuster directly or indirectly soliciting employment, as defined by Section 38.01, Penal Code, for an attorney, or a licensed public insurance adjuster entering into a contract with an insured for the primary purpose of referring the insured to an attorney without the intent to actually perform the services customarily provided by a licensed public insurance adjuster, provided that this subdivision may not be construed to prohibit a licensed public insurance adjuster from recommending a particular attorney to an insured.
