TexasTexasLawHB 4
Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA)
Comprehensive consumer data privacy law giving Texans rights to access, correct, delete and opt out of the sale, targeted advertising and profiling uses of their personal data, enforced by the attorney general.
Took effectJul 1, 2024 2 years ago
- Body
- Texas Legislature
- Session
- 2023
- Introduced
- Feb 16, 2023
- In effect since
- Jul 1, 20242 years ago
- Votes
- House 146-0, Senate 30-0, conference report: Senate 31-0, House 144-0
- Sponsors
- R (Republican)Republican
Timeline
Jul 1, 2024 2 years ago
Jun 18, 2023 3 years ago
May 28, 2023 3 years ago
May 27, 2023 3 years ago
May 10, 2023 3 years ago
Apr 5, 2023 3 years ago
Feb 16, 2023 3 years ago
Sponsors
- R (Republican)Giovanni Capriglione
- R (Republican)Bryan Hughes
Related
SCOPE Act (Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment)
Requires digital service providers to register users' ages, limit collection and use of minors' data, give parents supervision tools, and filter harmful content for known minors.
App Store Accountability Act
Requires mobile app stores to verify user ages, obtain parental consent before minors download apps or make purchases, and share age-category data with developers.
Cybersecurity safe harbor for businesses
Bars exemplary damages in data breach lawsuits against businesses with fewer than 250 employees that maintained a qualifying cybersecurity program.
Electronic health records and AI in health care
Sets electronic health record requirements, including storage of records in the United States, and allows practitioners to use AI for diagnostic recommendations only if they review AI-generated records and disclose the use to patients.
Genetic information security
Bars covered facilities and companies from using genome sequencers or software produced by foreign adversaries and from storing Texans' genome sequencing data in foreign adversary countries, with civil penalties and a private right of action.
Government use of artificial intelligence
Sets rules for state and local government use of AI, including a Department of Information Resources AI code of ethics and minimum standards, inventories of agency AI systems, and reviews of heightened-scrutiny AI systems used in consequential decisions.
Data broker notice requirements
Updates the notice that data brokers must post on their websites and include with their Texas registration statements.
Data broker regulation amendments
Broadens the definition of data broker to any business that collects, processes or transfers personal data it did not collect directly from the individual, removing the principal-revenue test from the 2023 law.
Change log
- AddedAdded to the list. Set by hand from the official record.Sep 27
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