Covered by default
If you use HeavySet to text your leads, there’s nothing to set up. Automated texts your team sends through HeavySet to Pennsylvania recipients now follow the state’s new telemarketing hours, Sunday and holiday rules automatically, on every account.
What changed in Pennsylvania
Act 47 of 2026 (Senate Bill 992, sponsored by Sen. Michele Brooks) took effect on October 19, 2026. It updates Pennsylvania’s Telemarketer Registration Act to cover modern forms of solicitation, including text messages, voicemails, ringless voicemails and robocalls. Among its rules:
- No telemarketing calls before 9 a.m. or after 7 p.m.
- No telemarketing solicitations on Sundays or legal holidays.
- Prior express written consent for most robocalls and telemarketing texts to numbers on the Do-Not-Call List.
- Consumers can opt out of telemarketing texts by replying STOP, QUIT, END, CANCEL or UNSUBSCRIBE.
- No false identification or spoofed caller ID.
How HeavySet applies the rules for you
- Finds Pennsylvania recipients automatically, by the lead’s zip code or a Pennsylvania area code. People keep their numbers when they move, so either one is enough.
- Holds automated texts (campaigns, drips, follow-ups and AI agent outreach) outside 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern, on Sundays and on Pennsylvania legal holidays.
- Sends held texts in the next allowed window, so nothing is lost, and drip steps keep their spacing.
- Adds an internal note to the lead’s SMS inbox thread when a text is delayed for Pennsylvania rules, at most once every 48 hours per number, so your team can see why.
- Honors STOP and other opt-out replies, as it always has.
Works across state lines
There’s no account setting to turn on, and nothing changes for leads in other states. If your company serves Pennsylvania and its neighbors, each lead gets the right rules automatically, and your own SMS automation hours keep applying everywhere.
What isn’t held
Reminders for appointments your customers have already booked still go out on schedule, because they aren’t telemarketing solicitations. Replies to a lead who texts you first aren’t held either.