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EIA Investigates: What Exclusive Data from Texas Reveals About the SB 140 Scramble

EIA Investigates: What Exclusive Data from Texas Reveals About the SB 140 Scramble

Ecommerce Innovation Alliance

November 4, 2025

In the final weeks of August 2025, a wave of urgent notifications swept through the ecommerce industry. Technology platforms issued stark warnings to their clients. A new Texas law, Senate Bill 140 (SB 140), was set to take effect on September 1, 2025. This legislation, they cautioned, could reclassify routine, consent-based marketing text messages as "telephone solicitations," subjecting thousands of businesses to a regulatory regime designed decades ago for boiler-room telemarketers. …

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Perrong v. Bradford: Legislative Communications Not Covered by the TCPA

Third Circuit Rules that Legislative Communications Not Covered by the TCPA

Ecommerce Innovation Alliance

November 3, 2025

A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Perrong v. Bradford has gained attention from the business and policy community. The case was filed by Andrew  R. Perrong a TCPA plaintiff’s lawyer who, according to one court order, is “a habitual litigant with extensive familiarity with the TCPA” that has engaged in “gamesmanship of the lowest order,”. Perrong has pursued this case in his own name, rather than on behalf of a client, as he has done in dozens of other cases filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  …

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Pennsylvania Senate Unanimously Amends SB 992, Averting Adoption of Failed 1:1 Rule

Pennsylvania Senate Unanimously Amends SB 992, Averting Adoption of Failed 1:1 Rule

Ecommerce Innovation Alliance

October 29, 2025

The Pennsylvania Senate on October 28th, voted unanimously to approve a critical amendment to Senate Bill 992 (SB 992). The amendment, A01964, sponsored by Senator Michele Brooks, removes a problematic "one-to-one" consent provision that mirrored a defunct Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule recently invalidated by a federal appellate court. The decisive 50-0 vote signals a strong bipartisan consensus against anchoring state law to a failed and legally unsound federal experiment.…

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that Repeats Past Mistakes and Ignores Proven Solutions

A Flawed Blueprint: Why Michigan’s SB 351 Repeats Past Mistakes and Ignores Proven Solutions

Ecommerce Innovation Alliance

October 23, 2025

Yesterday, before the Michigan Senate Finance and Consumer Protection Committee, a critical debate unfolded regarding Senate Bill 351, a legislative package aimed at combating the scourge of illegal robocalls and fraudulent text messages. The bill’s sponsor, Committee Chair Mary Cavanagh, and its supporters from the Attorney General’s office rightly identified a problem that plagues every Michigander. On this point, there is universal agreement. The goal of protecting consumers from harassment and fraud is a shared one, a sentiment echoed by all who testified.…

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Massachusetts HB 363 Mini-TCPA Threatens Legitimate E-commerce

Mini-TCPA Action Alert: Massachusetts HB 363 Threatens Legitimate Ecommerce

David Carter

October 2, 2025

On October 1st, I had the opportunity to provide testimony before the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure regarding HB 363, "An Act clarifying telephone solicitation". This bill, presented by Representative Michael J. Finn, proposes further regulation of telephone solicitation, including a prohibition on all robocalls to “any hands-free mobile telephones, mobile electronic devices and mobile telephones” subject to an exception for “informational calls,” which is awkwardly (and misleadingly) defined to include calls and texts sent in the context of a pre-existing business relationship.…

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