A familiar hustle is set to draw more rigorous enforcement if legislation in the Senate and House passes next year.

The “Direct Sales Consumer Protection Act” is being carried by Sen. Clay Yarborough ( SB 712 ) and Rep. Ryan Chamberlin ( HB 265 ) . The bill would revamp statute and tighten penalties related to pyramid schemes.

Yarborough, who filed his version Wednesday, said Chamberlin “approached (him) with the idea and it immediately sounded like a great consumer protection effort.”

“The goal is to help businesses that actually have a significant amount of retail sales to consumers versus enabling bad actors who simply want to line their own pockets through recruitment schemes. Pyramid promotions contain high levels of deception and can easily lead to destroyed relations

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