# Tex. Finance Code § 392.301: THREATS OR COERCION

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.301

## Section

- **Citation:** Tex. Finance Code § 392.301
- **Heading:** THREATS OR COERCION
- **Jurisdiction:** Texas
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 392 / Section 392.301

## Text

(a) In debt collection, a debt collector may not use threats, coercion, or attempts to coerce that employ any of the following practices:

(1) using or threatening to use violence or other criminal means to cause harm to a person or property of a person;

(2) accusing falsely or threatening to accuse falsely a person of fraud or any other crime;

(3) representing or threatening to represent to any person other than the consumer that a consumer is wilfully refusing to pay a nondisputed consumer debt when the debt is in dispute and the consumer has notified in writing the debt collector of the dispute;

(4) threatening to sell or assign to another the obligation of the consumer and falsely representing that the result of the sale or assignment would be that the consumer would lose a defense to the consumer debt or would be subject to illegal collection attempts;

(5) threatening that the debtor will be arrested for nonpayment of a consumer debt without proper court proceedings;

(6) threatening to file a charge, complaint, or criminal action against a debtor when the debtor has not violated a criminal law;

(7) threatening that nonpayment of a consumer debt will result in the seizure, repossession, or sale of the person's property without proper court proceedings; or

(8) threatening to take an action prohibited by law.

(b) Subsection (a) does not prevent a debt collector from:

(1) informing a debtor that the debtor may be arrested after proper court proceedings if the debtor has violated a criminal law of this state;

(2) threatening to institute civil lawsuits or other judicial proceedings to collect a consumer debt; or

(3) exercising or threatening to exercise a statutory or contractual right of seizure, repossession, or sale that does not require court proceedings.

## Nearby sections

- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.001 § 392.001. DEFINITIONS.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.001.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.101 § 392.101. BOND REQUIREMENT.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.101.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.102 § 392.102. CLAIM AGAINST BOND.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.102.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.201 § 392.201. REPORT TO CONSUMER.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.201.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.202 § 392.202. CORRECTION OF THIRD-PARTY DEBT COLLECTOR'S OR CREDIT BUREAU'S FILES.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.202.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.301 § 392.301. THREATS OR COERCION.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.301.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.302 § 392.302. HARASSMENT; ABUSE.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.302.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.303 § 392.303. UNFAIR OR UNCONSCIONABLE MEANS.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.303.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.304 § 392.304. FRAUDULENT, DECEPTIVE, OR MISLEADING REPRESENTATIONS.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.304.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.305 § 392.305. DECEPTIVE USE OF CREDIT BUREAU NAME.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.305.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.306 § 392.306. USE OF INDEPENDENT DEBT COLLECTOR.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.306.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.307 § 392.307. COLLECTION OF CERTAIN CONSUMER DEBT BY DEBT BUYERS.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.307.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.308 § 392.308. CONSUMER VICTIM OF IDENTITY THEFT.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.308.md)
- [Tex. Finance Code § 392.401 § 392.401. BONA FIDE ERROR.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Cfi_C392_S392.401.md)

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