Solar companies and setters calling homeowners in Texas work under the federal telemarketing rules plus Texas's own. Here is what each one means for a solar appointment floor, with the official source for every rule.
From official sources, checked September 26, 2026. General information, not legal advice.
Texas requires some telephone sellers or telemarketers to register or be licensed before calling there. Secretary of State registration certificate for each calling location. Check the exemptions before your floor dials Texas.
Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 302.101Texas sets its own window: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday noon to 9 p.m. It covers unsolicited consumer sales calls to residential numbers. Set the dialer to the narrower of the state and federal windows.
Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 301.051(b)(2)Texas keeps its own do not call list. PUC Texas no call list, including Texas national registry numbers. Scrub against it as well as the National Do Not Call Registry.
Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 304.051Texas has its own law on automated or recorded sales calls. Consent for sales calls to charged mobiles; suits for TCPA violations. It can be stricter than the federal rules.
Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 305.001, 305.053Texas allows recording with one party's consent. A party to the call, or one party's prior consent.
Tex. Penal Code 16.02(c)(4)Texas requires many telephone sellers to register with the Secretary of State, keeps a state no call list through the Public Utility Commission, limits residential sales calls to 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. (noon on Sunday), and added remedies in 2025.
Registers residential solar retailers and salespersons with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, sets required contract terms, gives buyers until the fifth business day to cancel, bars misleading statements and visits to homes with no solicitation signs, and raises penalties when the consumer is over 65. It applies to contracts entered on or after September 1, 2025, and its registration sections took effect September 1, 2026.
Official sourceEnacted in 2021, requires written disclosures for residential solar sales, leases and power purchase agreements: salesperson and installer contacts, the equipment and its cost, fees, performance claims and warranties.
Official sourceTexas gives buyers 3 business days to cancel covered home solicitation sales (sales of goods or services over $25). For residential solar agreements, Occupations Code chapter 1806 gives every buyer until the fifth business day to cancel, and it controls where it conflicts with chapter 601. Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 601
Checked October 14, 2026. General information, not legal advice.
Federal rules and Texas's own rules both apply: the National Do Not Call Registry, the calling window, consent rules for automated calls and texts, and any Texas registration requirement. The Texas rules page lists each one with its source. General information, not legal advice.
Texas: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday noon to 9 p.m. The federal window is 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the homeowner's location; use the narrower one.
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