Texas
What Texas's rule says
What are the calling hours in Texas?
In Texas, telephone solicitations are allowed from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and from noon to 9 p.m. on Sunday. The rule is Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 301.051(b)(2), and it covers unsolicited calls to residential numbers.
Texas is the only state that starts live sales calls later on Sunday: Sunday calls are legal, but not before noon.
The morning start, 9 a.m., is an hour later than the federal 8 a.m. every day of the week.
Texas has two time zones: El Paso and Hudspeth counties in the far west are on Mountain time, so 9 p.m. there is 10 p.m. in Dallas. Area code 915 covers El Paso.
Senate Bill 140 (effective September 1, 2025) brought texts into Texas's telephone solicitation registration law and its consumer remedies, but it didn't amend the hours section.
Who the rule covers
Texas's window applies on top of the federal 8 a.m.–9 p.m. rules; where both apply, follow the narrower one.
- Covers: telephone solicitors making unsolicited calls to residential numbers to sell consumer goods, services or credit.
- Not covered: calls at the consumer's express request, about an existing debt or contract, and to people with a prior or existing business relationship.
Texas's rules and where they come from
Telephone solicitation (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 301.051(b)(2)): Unsolicited telephone solicitations to residential numbers only after 9 a.m. and before 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and after noon and before 9 p.m. on Sunday.
The statutes and regulator pages are linked under 'Statutes, regulators and sources' below.
Do Texas's calling hours apply to texts?
Texas's hours rule (Bus. & Com. Code ch. 301) doesn't address texts. SB 140 (2025) brought texts into Texas's telephone solicitation registration law (ch. 302) but didn't amend ch. 301. Keeping marketing texts inside the Texas window is the safe setting.
Time zones and area codes in Texas
Texas has 2 time zones, so check which one the lead is in: Central (Almost all of the state); Mountain (El Paso and Hudspeth counties).
Area codes in Texas: 210, 214, 254, 281, 325, 346, 361, 409, 430, 432, 469, 512, 621, 682, 713, 726, 737, 806, 817, 830, 832, 903, 915, 936, 940, 945, 956, 972, 979. A number's area code is a clue to where the person is, not proof: people keep their numbers when they move.
Calling Texas from TopReach
TopReach smart lists only dial a lead inside the legal window in their own time zone (weekdays 9 a.m.–9 p.m., weekends 10 a.m.–6 p.m.) and skip statutory holidays, and a rep calling a lead outside their hours is asked to confirm first. They don't apply Texas's own rule for you. To stay inside it, set your workspace's quiet hours from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m., and keep Sunday calls to noon – 9 p.m., since TopReach's weekend window opens at 10 a.m..
Recording calls into Texas: One-party consent: you can record a call you're on. TopReach records only when your workspace policy says so (never, always, or the rep's choice), and it doesn't play a recording announcement for you, so reps say it at the start of the call where consent is needed.
