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TexasTexasLawHB 1181
Age verification for pornography websites
Requires commercial websites where more than one third of content is sexual material harmful to minors to verify that users are adults.
Age verification requirement upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Free Speech Coalition v. PaxtonJun 27, 2025 1 year ago
- Body
- Texas Legislature
- Session
- 2023
- Introduced
- Jan 4, 2023
- In effect since
- Sep 1, 20233 years ago
- Votes
- House 141-0, Senate 31-0, House concurred 133-1
- Sponsors
- R (Republican)Republican
Timeline
Jun 27, 2025 1 year ago
Jul 2, 2024 2 years ago
Mar 7, 2024 2 years ago
Fifth Circuit ruled on the challenge in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton (No. 23-50627)
Sep 1, 2023 3 years ago
Jun 12, 2023 3 years ago
May 19, 2023 3 years ago
May 9, 2023 3 years ago
Jan 4, 2023 3 years ago
Sponsors
- R (Republican)Matt Shaheen
- R (Republican)Angela Paxton
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Change log
- AddedAdded to the list. Set by hand from the official record.Sep 27
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