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TRAIGA
The law bans certain high-risk artificial intelligence uses, restricts intentional discrimination, sets sector-specific rules, and authorizes penalties enforced by the attorney general.
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54 on file · 37 became law · 0 still moving · 0 moved in 30 days
HB 18
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.
SB 2420
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.
Ban on Chinese AI and social media apps on state devices
Governor directive banning AI and social media apps affiliated with the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, including DeepSeek, RedNote and Lemon8, from government-issued devices and adding them to the state prohibited technologies list.
Prohibited technologies list update (AI, hardware and software)
Governor directive adding Chinese-affiliated AI companies, hardware and software to the state prohibited technologies list for state employees and devices and naming the Texas Cyber Command lead agency for identifying such threats.
HB 149
Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA)
Bans developing or deploying AI systems for certain intentional harms such as behavioral manipulation toward self-harm, unlawful discrimination, government social scoring and sexual deepfakes of minors, requires state agencies to disclose AI use to consumers, and creates an AI regulatory sandbox and the Texas Artificial Intelligence Council, enforced by the attorney general.
HB 581
Age verification for AI nudify tools
Requires commercial websites and apps that offer tools to create artificial sexual material using real people's likenesses to verify users are adults, with civil penalties.
SB 20
AI-generated obscene depictions of children
Creates a criminal offense for possessing, promoting or producing obscene visual material that appears to depict a child, including AI-generated or animated images.
SB 815
Automated systems in health insurance utilization review
Prohibits utilization review agents from using automated decision systems, including AI, to make adverse determinations on health benefit claims in whole or in part.
SB 1621
Computer-generated child sexual abuse material
Expands child sexual abuse material offenses to cover computer-generated and AI-altered images depicting children, including recognizable real children.
SB 2610
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.
SB 441
Deepfake sexual media and artificial intimate visual material
Creates civil liability and expands criminal offenses for producing or distributing nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfake media and artificial intimate visual material, with an affirmative defense for AI application providers that prohibit and take steps to prevent such content.
SB 1188
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.
HB 130
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.
SB 1964
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.
HB 150
Texas Cyber Command
Establishes the Texas Cyber Command, with a facility in San Antonio, to prevent and respond to cybersecurity incidents, and transfers state cybersecurity duties from the Department of Information Resources to it.
HB 2818
AI division within the Department of Information Resources
Creates an artificial intelligence division within the Department of Information Resources to help state agencies adopt generative AI and modernize legacy systems.
HB 3512
AI training for state and local government employees
Requires certain state agency and local government employees and officials to complete certified artificial intelligence training, alongside existing cybersecurity training.
SB 1498
Civil asset forfeiture of digital currency
Sets procedures for civil asset forfeiture of digital currency and similar property.
SB 1343
Data broker notice requirements
Updates the notice that data brokers must post on their websites and include with their Texas registration statements.
SB 2121
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.
SB 2373
Financial exploitation using AI-generated media
Creates criminal and civil liability for financial exploitation or abuse carried out with artificially generated media or phishing communications.
HB 3133
User reports of explicit deepfake material on social media
Requires social media platforms to provide a way for users to report explicit deepfake material and to respond to and act on such reports on set timelines.
HB 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.
HB 449
Sexually explicit deepfake media
Would have broadened the offense of producing or distributing sexually explicit deepfakes from videos to any deepfake media, including images.
SB 6
Large loads and grid reliability (data centers)
Sets interconnection standards, cost-sharing, disclosure and emergency curtailment rules for large electric loads of 75 megawatts or more, such as data centers, in the ERCOT region.
SB 21
Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Investment Act
Creates the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, managed by the comptroller outside the state treasury, to invest in bitcoin and other qualifying cryptocurrency.
HB 3112
Confidentiality of government cybersecurity information
Applies open meetings and public information law exceptions to government information about certain cybersecurity measures.
HB 186
Social media ban for minors
Would have prohibited social media platforms from allowing Texas residents younger than 18 to hold accounts.
SB 1626
Digital expression and social media censorship
Would have restricted censorship of or interference with digital expression on social media platforms and email services.
SB 1860
SCOPE Act applicability amendment
Would have amended the applicability section of the SCOPE Act (Business and Commerce Code Chapter 509) governing protection of minors from harmful material on digital services.
SB 1705
Virtual currency kiosk regulation
Would have regulated virtual currency kiosks, with administrative penalties.
SB 442
Penalties for sexually explicit deepfake media
Would have increased criminal penalties for unlawful production or distribution of certain sexually explicit deepfake media.
SB 747
School policies on student deepfake intimate images
Would have required public school policies and programs on the production or distribution of intimate visual material, including deepfakes, by students.
SB 2881
Account settings for minor users of digital services
Would have regulated access and communications settings for minors' accounts on digital services.
SB 2637
Disclosure of automated social media posts
Would have required disclosures on certain automated (bot) posts on social media platforms, with civil penalties.
SB 1960
Digital replication rights in voice and likeness
Would have created property rights in a person's digital replica of voice and visual likeness, with private causes of action for unauthorized use.
HB 3970
Interconnection and operation of large loads
Would have set rules for interconnecting and operating large electric loads such as data centers on the ERCOT grid.
HB 3186
Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI) amendments
Amended the Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (Business and Commerce Code 503.001) to limit disclosure of commercially captured biometric identifiers and require their destruction within one year after the collection purpose expires; the act is enforced by the attorney general.
HB 2298
AI cancer detection imaging grants
Would have created a grant program for health care facilities using AI to scan medical images for cancer detection.
HB 366
Disclosure of altered media in political advertising
Would have required a disclosure on political advertising that contains AI-altered or synthetic media and made failure to disclose a criminal offense.
HB 421
Private cause of action for explicit deepfakes
Would have created a private cause of action against people who create certain explicit deepfake material.
HB 499
Social media mental health warning label
Would have required certain social media platforms to display a warning label about the association between minors' social media use and mental health problems.
HB 2798
Virtual currency kiosk disclosures
Would have required disclosures and other consumer protections for virtual currency kiosk transactions.
SB 668
Disclosure of AI use
Would have required disclosure of information regarding artificial intelligence use.
HB 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.
SB 1361
Sexually explicit deepfake videos offense
Created a criminal offense for producing or distributing sexually explicit deepfake videos of a person without consent.
SB 2105
Texas data broker law
Requires data brokers to register annually with the Secretary of State, post consumer notices and maintain a data security program, with civil penalties.
HB 1666
Digital asset service provider commingling
Bars digital asset service providers from commingling customer funds with company funds and requires them to make customer holdings information available to customers and auditors and to report annually, with administrative penalties.
SB 1929
Registration of crypto mining large loads
Requires virtual currency mining facilities in the ERCOT region with more than 75 megawatts of interruptible load to register with the Public Utility Commission as large flexible loads.