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TX HB2060: Relating to the creation of the artificial intelligence advisory council.

Effective Jun 13, 2023 Texas · 2023 session

Last verified Oct 12, 2026 · official bill text

HB2060 · where it stands

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  1. Introduced Complete
  2. Passed first chamber Complete
  3. Passed both chambers Complete
  4. Enacted Complete
  5. Effective Since Jun 13, 2023
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In one paragraph

Texas HB 2060 (2023) created a seven-member Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council, co-chaired by a House and a Senate member, to study AI systems used by state agencies, assess the need for a state AI code of ethics and review agency inventory reports, with a report to the legislature due December 1, 2024. Every executive and legislative branch agency had to file an inventory of its automated decision systems by July 1, 2024. The council was abolished and the subchapter expired January 1, 2025; later laws (HB 2818, SB 1964) govern state agency AI now.

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What it means for business

State agencies and their AI vendors had to document automated decision systems in 2024; the inventory informed Texas's later state-agency AI laws.

Key provisions

  1. Gov't Code 2054.621-.624: defines AI systems, algorithms and automated decision systems
  2. Creates a 7-member AI Advisory Council (legislators, DIR executive director, four governor appointees)
  3. Council studies state agency AI use and the need for a state AI code of ethics; report due December 1, 2024
  4. Executive and legislative agencies file automated decision system inventories (vendor, data inputs, bias testing, uses, costs) by July 1, 2024
  5. Council abolished and subchapter expired January 1, 2025

Latest legislative action

Jun 13, 2023. Signed by the Governor; effective immediately; Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., ch. 828

Sponsors (showing 5 of 7)

NameRoleDistrict
R Sponsor HD-096
R Sponsor HD-098
D Sponsor SD-021
D Sponsor HD-070
R Sponsor HD-059

Roll call votes

S Three day rule suspended May 24, 2023

31 yea0 nayPassed

S Read 3rd time May 24, 2023

31 yea0 nayPassed

H Read 3rd time RV#367 Apr 20, 2023

137 yea10 nay3 otherPassed

Amendments (1)

  • House Amendment (H 2) 1-Lalani Adopted 2023-04-19

Topics and industries

Related topics

AI in GovernmentAutomated Decision-Making

Affected industries

GovernmentTechnology

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