Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 20.033 · Subchapter B. SECURITY ALERT AND SECURITY FREEZE
TOLL-FREE SECURITY ALERT REQUEST NUMBER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A consumer reporting agency shall maintain a toll-free telephone number that is answered at a minimum during normal business hours to accept security alert requests from consumers. If calls are not answered after normal business hours, an automated answering system shall record requests and calls shall be returned to the consumer not later than two hours after the time the normal business day begins on the next business day after the date the call was received.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1326, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Assigned by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 64 (S.B. 60), Sec. 3, eff. January 1, 2014.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.20.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 12c891907d6182f0b13bb905486bde10bd569ad506151d34f38bdaf0347fac19
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.