Texas Consumer Laws

Consumer laws generally are meant to protect the average consumer from deceptive business practices, dangerous products, or other problems; but they also protect businesses from liability.

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This category also includes laws protecting consumers from cyber crimes like phishing and identity theft. Federal and state laws address these matters. In Texas, for instance, customers have one year (or 12,000 miles) to make a claim under the state’s lemon law. Click on a link below to learn more about this and other consumer laws in Texas.

Learn About Texas Consumer Laws

Texas Homestead Laws

Basic overview of homestead protection law in Texas, which allows elderly or disabled persons who are threatened with foreclosure or eviction to remain in their homes in certain cases.
Texas Deceptive Trade Practice Laws

How Texas laws prohibit deceptive trade practices, such as false advertising; bait and switch; or tampering with a car’s odometer, including links to resources on related topics.
Texas Antitrust Laws

Basics of antitrust laws in Texas (which are intended to encourage competition), with information about the statute of limitations for filing a complaint and links to other pertinent information.

Texas Identity Theft Laws

Various laws and regulations pertaining to the crime of identity theft, which involves the use of someone else’s personally identifying information to secure credit or purchase goods.
Texas Lemon Laws

Overview of Texas lemon laws, which protect consumers who purchase a new automobile that fails to conform to reasonably expected standards and requires refund or replacement for defective cars.
Texas Interest Rate Laws

The basics of Texas laws regulating interest rates charged by creditors, such as the legal maximum interest rate a creditor may charge and penalties for unlawful interest rates.