THREATS OR COERCION

(a) In enforcing a child support obligation, a private child support enforcement agency 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 an obligor or property of the obligor; (2) accusing falsely or threatening to accuse falsely an obligor of a violation of state or federal child support laws; (3) taking or threatening to take an enforcement action against an obligor that is not authorized by law; or (4) intentionally representing to a person that the agency is a governmental agency authorized to enforce a child support obligation. (b) Subsection (a) does not prevent a private child support enforcement agency from: (1) informing an obligor that the obligor may be subject to penalties prescribed by law for failure to pay a child support obligation; or (2) taking, or threatening to take, an action authorized by law for the enforcement of a child support obligation by the agency.