AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47, relative to consumer protection.
Summary
HB2453 is a Tennessee consumer protection bill that expands and clarifies several unfair or deceptive trade practice provisions in Title 47. It adds new prohibited practices involving radar and laser speed-detection devices, including making false promises to pay traffic citations for buyers of such devices and advertising or selling radar jamming devices that interfere with law enforcement speed-measurement equipment. The bill also makes violations of certain existing statutes expressly actionable under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act and adds a prohibition on advertising or selling goods or services that are illegal to sell in Tennessee.
The bill also makes several procedural and litigation-related changes. It limits the Attorney General’s deemed possession or control of documents in certain consumer protection actions, narrows a notice-related provision for claims involving published content, changes a recovery provision to allow individuals to sue for and recover damages individually, and removes certain language from a data-related definition in the consumer protection code. Several sections are retroactive to causes of action arising before the act’s effective date and to pending litigation, while other sections take effect on July 1, 2026.
Impact
The bill amends multiple sections of Tennessee Code Annotated Title 47, primarily the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act and related consumer and trade statutes. It creates new per se unfair or deceptive acts, ties violations of specified statutes to TCPA remedies and penalties, and broadens enforcement against unlawful commercial offerings. It also affects litigation practice by limiting discovery assumptions in Attorney General actions and applying parts of the act retroactively, which could influence pending consumer protection cases and private claims.
Sentiment
The available voting history suggests the bill had generally favorable support in committee, passing the House Banking and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee 5-1 and the House Commerce Committee 16-4. No committee transcript is available, so there is no recorded floor or committee debate to indicate detailed public sentiment. The vote margins suggest broad but not unanimous agreement, with some members remaining opposed or concerned about the bill’s scope or effects.
Contention
The most likely points of contention are the bill’s expansion of consumer protection liability, especially the new treatment of illegal goods/services and radar-jamming device sales as deceptive practices, and its retroactive application to pending and prior causes of action. The changes affecting Attorney General discovery, notice requirements for published-content claims, and individual recovery language may also have raised procedural or litigation-related concerns. The recorded dissent in committee indicates at least some opposition, but the specific objections are not available in the provided materials.
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