State AI law
Texas
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We track 51 artificial-intelligence bills and regulations in Texas. 21 have been signed or enacted.
Last updated Oct 12, 2026 · How we collect and check bills
Where Texas’s bills stand
51 bills- Introduced
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- Signed or enacted
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- Dead or vetoed
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Overview
How Texas regulates AI
Texas has 51 published AI-related bills in our register, 21 of them signed or enacted. Every bill below links to its own page with the status, dates and a plain-English summary.
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RSS feed for TexasRelating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit media using deep fake technology.
Vetoed. Texas's HB 449 would have widened the Penal Code § 21.165 crime from deep fake videos to any deep fake media: a visual depiction made or altered with software, machine learning, AI or other technological means that appears to a reasonable person to show a real person, indistinguishable from an authentic depiction, doing something that did not happen. It would have dropped the "intent to deceive" element. Knowingly producing or distributing such media by electronic means, showing a person with intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual conduct, without their consent, would have stayed an offense. Vetoed by the Governor June 22, 2025.
Relating to regulation of the use of artificial intelligence systems in this state; providing civil penalties.
Texas's HB 149, the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act, bars developing or deploying AI intended to incite self-harm, harm to others or crime, with intent to unlawfully discriminate against a protected class (disparate impact alone is not enough), or solely to infringe U.S. constitutional rights, and making or distributing AI solely to produce or spread child pornography or unlawful sexual deep fakes. Government entities may not use AI for harmful social scoring or rights-infringing biometric ID. Agencies must tell consumers they are dealing with AI; health care providers must tell patients. AG enforcement; 60-day cure. Signed June 22, 2025; effective January 1, 2026.
Relating to artificial intelligence training programs for certain employees and officials of state agencies and local governments.
Texas's HB 3512 adds AI training to the state's annual cybersecurity training requirement. At least once a year, state agency employees who use a computer for at least 25% of their duties, and each elected or appointed agency officer, must complete an AI training program certified by the Department of Information Resources (DIR), as must local government employees and officials who have access to a local government computer system or database and use a computer for at least 25% of their duties. DIR must certify at least five programs each year, equal in length to the cybersecurity courses. Signed June 20, 2025; effective September 1, 2025.
Relating to the use of certain automated systems in, and certain adverse determinations made in connection with, the health benefit claims p…
Texas's SB 815 bars utilization review agents from using an automated decision system to make, wholly or partly, an adverse determination (a finding that health care services are not medically necessary or appropriate, or are experimental or investigational). Such tools may still be used for administrative support or fraud detection, and the insurance commissioner may audit and inspect an agent's use of them at any time. Adverse determination notices must describe the screening criteria and review procedures used. Signed June 20, 2025; effective September 1, 2025; applies to utilization review for health benefit plans delivered, issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026.
Relating to financial exploitation or financial abuse using artificially generated media or phishing communications; providing a civil penal…
Texas SB 2373 (2025) targets deepfake scams. It defines artificially generated media as images, audio, video, text or other media created or modified with AI or other software with intent to deceive. A person harmed by knowing or intentional dissemination of such media or phishing for financial exploitation may sue for damages, profits, fees and injunctions; the attorney general may seek up to $1,000 per day; and new Penal Code 32.56 makes financial abuse through such media or phishing a crime graded by amount, up to a first-degree felony. Platforms and broadcasters are exempt for others' content. Effective September 1, 2025.
Relating to motor vehicles, including automated motor vehicles; creating a criminal offense.
Texas rewrote its rules for self-driving vehicles. A vehicle with an automated driving system may operate with or without a human driver aboard if it can follow Texas traffic laws, has a manufacturer-installed recording device, meets federal safety standards, can bring itself to a safe stop if the system fails, is registered and titled, and carries the required insurance. Carrying passengers or goods commercially with no human driver requires authorization from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles and a first-responder plan filed with the Department of Public Safety. The act took effect September 1, 2025.
Relating to user reports of explicit deep fake material on social media platforms.
Texas's HB 3133 adds explicit deep fake material to the complaint system that large social media platforms (over 50 million monthly active U.S. users) must run under Business & Commerce Code Chapter 120. On notice of explicit deep fake material, a platform must immediately confirm to the user that it is aware of it, remove it and known identical copies, and update the user in writing within seven days; if it finds the content is explicit deep fake material, it must take measures to stop it being reposted. Platforms must post a plain-language notice of the process. Any Chapter 120 violation is now a deceptive trade practice. Signed June 20, 2025; effective September 1, 2025.
Relating to criminal and civil liability related to sexually explicit media and artificial intimate visual material; creating a criminal off…
Texas's SB 441 widens the Penal Code § 21.165 crime from deep fake videos to any deep fake media made or altered with AI or other technological means. Knowingly producing or distributing sexually explicit deep fake media of a person without signed written consent is a Class A misdemeanor, or a third-degree felony for a repeat offense or a depicted minor. Intentionally threatening to produce or distribute deep fake media to coerce, extort, harass or intimidate is a new offense. It adds civil liability for AI intimate images, including against nudification app owners, and requires websites and apps to honor removal requests within 72 hours. Signed June 20, 2025; effective September 1, 2025.
Relating to the regulation and use of artificial intelligence systems and the management of data by governmental entities.
Texas's SB 1964 sets rules for AI used by state agencies and local governments. The Department of Information Resources (DIR) must adopt an AI code of ethics and minimum risk-management standards for "heightened scrutiny" AI (systems specifically intended to autonomously make, or be a controlling factor in, consequential decisions on access to government services), aligned with NIST's AI RMF 1.0, which agencies and local governments must adopt. State agencies and their vendors must assess such systems for risks of unlawful harm, agencies must give notice of public-facing AI, and vendors that do not cure violations can lose contracts. Signed June 20, 2025; effective September 1, 2025.
Relating to the creation of artificial sexual material harmful to minors.
Texas's HB 581 extends the state's age verification law (Civil Practice and Remedies Code Chapter 129B) to AI-generated sexual material harmful to minors in which a real person is recognizable. A commercial entity whose website has a publicly accessible tool for creating it, or that offers an app for creating it, must use reasonable age verification to confirm users are 18 or older, may not keep identifying information from the check, and must ensure anyone used as a source is an adult who consented to use of their face and body. Entities whose terms ban such material and that use technical tools to limit it are exempt. Signed June 20, 2025; effective September 1, 2025.
Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of possession, promotion, or production of certain obscene visual material appearing to dep…
Texas's SB 20 adds Penal Code § 43.235. It is a crime to knowingly possess, access with intent to view, or promote obscene visual material containing a depiction that appears to be of a child under 18 engaging in conduct described in the obscenity statute, whether it shows an actual child, a cartoon or animation, or an image made with AI or other software. Using an image of an actual child under 18 with intent to train an AI model to produce child pornography is also an offense. It is a state jail felony; third-degree with one prior conviction, second-degree with two or more. Signed June 20, 2025; effective September 1, 2025.
Relating to prosecution and punishment of certain criminal offenses prohibiting sexually explicit visual material involving depictions of ch…
Texas's SB 1621 rewrites Penal Code § 43.26. Offenses for sexual material depicting an actual child cover images of a recognizable real child altered with AI or other software. New offenses cover a "computer-generated child": an AI- or software-made depiction appearing to be under 18 that a reasonable person would find virtually indistinguishable from an actual child. Intentionally or knowingly possessing or accessing such material is a state jail felony and promoting it a third-degree felony, with higher grades for prior convictions, volume and depictions appearing under 10. Signed June 20, 2025; effective September 1, 2025.
Relating to electronic health record requirements; authorizing a civil penalty.
Texas's SB 1188 is an electronic health record (EHR) law. Health care practitioners may use AI for diagnostic purposes, including recommendations on a diagnosis or course of treatment based on a patient's medical record, if acting within their license, the use is not otherwise restricted by law, and they review all AI-created records consistent with Texas Medical Board standards; they must disclose that use to patients. EHRs must be kept physically in the U.S. or a U.S. territory (for storage from January 1, 2026), and EHR algorithms that aid treatment decisions must include the recorded biological sex. AG civil penalties apply. Signed June 20, 2025; effective September 1, 2025.
Relating to the artificial intelligence division within the Department of Information Resources.
Texas's HB 2818 requires the Department of Information Resources (DIR) to establish an artificial intelligence division. The division must help state agencies and other entities that use DIR's services implement generative AI for projects to modernize or replace legacy systems and other projects DIR finds appropriate, using DIR's own generative AI or contracting with a vendor, whose generative AI must then complete a majority of the project work. For each completed project, the division must prepare a cost analysis report on the time, money and resources saved compared with traditional systems. Signed June 20, 2025; effective September 1, 2025.
Relating to digital replication rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals; providing private causes of action; authorizing a fe…
Texas SB 1960 (2025), as engrossed, would have added Business & Commerce Code Chapter 651 giving individuals a licensable property right in computer-generated digital replicas of their voice or visual likeness. Producing or publishing a replica without written consent would have been prohibited, subject to exceptions such as news, commentary, satire and parody; online services would have had to designate a takedown agent, and rights holders could sue for injunctions and damages. It passed the Senate but died in a House committee at sine die adjournment June 2, 2025.
Relating to a study on employer and state agency use of automated employment decision tools in assessing an applicant's suitability for a po…
Texas HB 5118 (2025), as reported by the House committee (committee substitute), would have required the Texas Workforce Commission, with help from the Department of Information Resources, to study the use of AI systems and automated employment decision tools in hiring by employers, including state agencies. A report to the governor, lieutenant governor, House speaker and relevant committee chairs was due by November 15, 2026, and the Act would have expired September 1, 2027. No enrolled version exists, so the bill died when the regular session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to the use of artificial intelligence-based algorithms in utilization review conducted for certain health benefit plans.
Texas SB 1822 (2025), as engrossed, would have added Insurance Code Sec. 4201.156 requiring health benefit plan issuers and their utilization review agents to disclose whether they use AI-based algorithms in utilization review, ensure the algorithm and its training data minimize bias and follow evidence-based clinical guidelines, and file an annual compliance statement by December 31. It passed the Senate, but no enrolled version exists, so it died June 2, 2025.
Relating to disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence in the denial of insurance claims.
Texas HB 4635 (Rep. Garcia Hernandez) would have required an insurer or health maintenance organization that denies a claim based on a determination made by artificial intelligence to give the claimant, with the denial notice, a written disclosure that AI made the determination, its basis, and instructions on appealing. It would apply to claims submitted on or after September 1, 2025. Left pending in House Insurance Committee May 7, 2025; it died when the session ended.
Relating to the creation of certain explicit deep fake material; providing a private cause of action.
Texas HB 421 (2025), as engrossed, would have added Business & Commerce Code Chapter 121 requiring the owner of a deep fake generator (a website or app operating in Texas that lets users create deep fake material) to verify the age of the person apparently depicted, using a commercially reasonable method, and barring it from allowing explicit deep fake material of an adult without written consent or of anyone under 18. A depicted person, or a minor's parent or guardian, could have sued for actual damages, court costs, attorney's fees and possibly exemplary damages. It passed the House, its chamber of origin, but died when the regular session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to the regulation of autonomous vehicles; creating a criminal offense.
Texas HB 3837 (2025), as introduced, would have created an Autonomous Vehicle Commission and required a permit for autonomous vehicles to operate on Texas highways, with an operating plan for emergency responders, a recording device, insurance, and collision reporting within 48 hours. An owner operating a vehicle in violation would have committed a Class A misdemeanor. It also covered deceptive 'self-driving' advertising. It died in committee when the session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to the disclosure of information with regard to artificial intelligence.
Texas SB 668 (2025), as engrossed, would have added Business & Commerce Code Chapter 2003 requiring a person that uses AI to provide services to individuals in Texas and generated, or is more than 25 percent owned by a person who generated, at least $100 billion in total revenue to disclose on its website each AI model used, its purpose, and any third-party input and resulting model changes. A violation would have been a deceptive trade practice. It passed the Senate, but no enrolled version exists, so it died June 2, 2025.
Relating to the use of an automated employment decision tool by an employer to assess a job applicant's fitness for a position; imposing an …
Texas SB 2991 (2025), as introduced, would have added Labor Code Chapter 95 barring employers from using an automated employment decision tool on an applicant unless they notify the applicant, explain how it is used and what characteristics may be evaluated, and get written consent. Tools could not use protected-class status or the applicant's zip code. Employers would have had to make reasonable efforts to destroy assessments within 30 days, and the commission would assess administrative penalties of $2,500 to $7,500 per violation. No enrolled version exists, so it died June 2, 2025.
Relating to the disclosure and use of artificial intelligence.
Texas HB 5496 (2025), as introduced, would have added Chapter 611 to the Business & Commerce Code. A person using AI in conducting business or providing a good or service to a Texas resident, including social media, political advertising or financial services, would have had to maintain AI industry best-practice standards, give individuals a tool to detect AI use, explain how and why an AI decision was reached, and ensure the AI does not show bias or discriminate on any legally protected classification. A violation would have been a deceptive trade practice. No enrolled version exists, so it died June 2, 2025.
Relating to establishing a framework to govern the use of artificial intelligence systems in critical decision-making by private companies a…
Texas SB 2966 (2025), as introduced, would have added Business & Commerce Code Chapter 551 requiring a private company that uses an AI system to make a consequential decision, meaning one with a material, legal or similarly significant effect on a consumer, to establish a framework to govern the system's use to protect consumers. A company that violates it would be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed one dollar. No enrolled version exists, so it died June 2, 2025.
Relating to the use of artificial intelligence to score certain portions of assessment instruments administered to public school students.
Texas's HB 5282 (89th Legislature, 2025, as introduced) would have required the agency to prohibit using AI, including AI-based algorithms and automated scoring engines, to score constructed (written) responses on state assessment instruments under Education Code section 39.023. Machine scoring of multiple choice would remain allowed, and an AI method could be used if trained on representative samples including educationally disadvantaged, emergent bilingual or special education students, shown valid and reliable, and certified by an independent evaluator as showing no measurable bias against them. Referred to Public Education April 7, 2025; it died in committee.
Relating to biometric identifiers used in the performance of artificial intelligence.
Texas SB 2490 (2025), as introduced, would have amended Business & Commerce Code Sec. 503.001 (biometric identifiers) to define artificial intelligence and add Subsection (f) exempting AI-related training, processing or storage of biometric identifiers, unless done to uniquely identify a specific individual or the identifier is later used for another and separate commercial purpose. It states no penalty amounts. No enrolled version exists, so it died June 2, 2025.
Relating to the deceptive trade practice of failure to disclose information regarding the use of artificial intelligence system or algorithm…
Texas's SB 2567 (West) would amend the Deceptive Trade Practices Act (Bus. & Com. Code 17.45 and 17.46) to add 'failure to disclose information regarding use of artificial intelligence system, or algorithmic pricing systems for setting of price' to the list of false, misleading or deceptive acts. Filed March 13, 2025; referred to the Senate Business & Commerce Committee April 3, 2025; it did not advance and died when the 2025 session ended.
Relating to the use of an automated employment decision tool by a state agency to assess a job applicant's fitness for a position.
Texas SB 2473 (2025), as introduced, would have added Government Code Subchapter E to Chapter 656 limiting how state agencies use automated employment decision tools to assess job applicants. An agency could not use a tool unless it notified the applicant and gave information on how it would be used and what characteristics may be evaluated, and it would have had to mitigate bias so the tool does not discriminate against protected classes. No penalties are stated. No enrolled version exists, so it died June 2, 2025.
Relating to the use of artificial intelligence by health care providers.
Texas HB 4455 (2025), as introduced, would have directed the Health and Human Services executive commissioner to adopt rules regulating health care providers' use of artificial intelligence. The rules would have required a provider using AI to use an automated messaging system when messaging patients that discloses AI use and gives contact information for a provider who can answer questions. It did not pass both chambers and died when the session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to an automated artificial intelligence review of library material purchased by public schools; providing an administrative penalty…
Texas HB 4448 (2025), as introduced, would have required school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to have library material reviewed by a Texas Education Agency-approved third party using an automated AI review to rate it sexually explicit or sexually relevant. Explicit material could not be purchased, and relevant material would need parental consent. The agency could assess penalties up to $10,000 per library material acquired in violation. It did not pass both chambers and died June 2, 2025.
Relating to digital replication rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals; providing private causes of action; authorizing a fe…
Texas HB 3950 (2025), as introduced, would have created a digital replication right in an individual's voice and visual likeness, and barred producing a digital replica or making one available to the public without the right holder's written consent. The right would last the individual's life plus 10 years, extendable. Eligible plaintiffs could sue over knowing violations, with statutory damages of $5,000 or $25,000 per work depending on the violator, and online service providers would have had notice-and-removal duties. It died when the regular session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to use of artificial intelligence in utilization review conducted for health benefit plans.
Texas HB 4018 (2025), as introduced, would have added Insurance Code Sec. 4201.156, requiring a utilization review agent that uses an AI-based algorithm or other software tool to ensure it bases determinations on the enrollee's clinical history and circumstances, does not override a physician or provider, and does not discriminate. The agent could not use AI as the sole basis to deny, delay or modify health care services. It died when the regular session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to the creation of the artificial intelligence advisory council and the establishment of the artificial intelligence learning labor…
Texas HB 3808 (2025), as introduced, would have added Subchapter S to Government Code Chapter 2054 to create a seven-member Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council to study and monitor state agency AI systems, and an AI learning laboratory. Executive and legislative agencies would have had to submit an inventory of their automated decision systems by July 1, 2026. The council would be abolished September 1, 2029. It died when the regular session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to biometric identifiers used in the performance of artificial intelligence.
Texas HB 3755 (2025), as introduced, would have amended Business & Commerce Code Sec. 503.001 (the biometric identifier law) to define artificial intelligence and to exempt AI training, processing, or storage unless done to uniquely identify a specific individual. If a biometric identifier captured for an AI commercial purpose were used for another, separate commercial purpose, the holder would become subject to the section's possession, destruction and penalty rules. It died when the regular session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit images or videos using deep fake technology; increasing a criminal …
Texas HB 387 (2025), as introduced, would have amended Penal Code Sec. 21.165 so that knowingly producing or distributing by electronic means a deep fake image or video that appears to show a real person with intimate parts exposed or in sexual conduct, without effective consent, is a state jail felony instead of a Class A misdemeanor. It did not pass both chambers and died when the regular session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit images or videos using deep fake technology; increasing a criminal …
Texas HB 1092 (2025), as introduced, would have made it an offense to knowingly produce or distribute by electronic means a deep fake image or video that appears to show a real person with intimate parts exposed or in sexual conduct, without that person's effective consent. It would have been a Class A misdemeanor, or a state jail felony if a depicted real child was younger than 14 when the depiction was created. It did not pass both chambers and died when the regular session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to use of artificial intelligence in utilization review conducted for health benefit plans.
Texas HB 2922 (2025), as introduced, would have barred a utilization review agent from using an artificial intelligence-based algorithm as the sole basis for a decision to wholly or partly deny, delay, or modify health care services for an enrollee on medical necessity grounds. Only a physician or licensed health care provider could determine medical necessity, and the insurance commissioner could audit and inspect the agent's use of AI at any time. It did not pass both chambers and died when the session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to the regulation and reporting on the use of artificial intelligence systems by certain business entities and state agencies; prov…
Texas HB 1709 (2025), as introduced, the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act, would have set duties for developers, distributors and deployers of high-risk AI systems that are a substantial factor in consequential decisions, with attorney general enforcement and civil penalties of $50,000 to $100,000 per uncured violation. It also would have banned certain uses, created a regulatory sandbox and an AI Council. It died when the regular session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to the artificial intelligence division within the Department of Information Resources.
Texas SB 1700 (2025), as introduced, would have had the Department of Information Resources establish an artificial intelligence division to help state agencies use generative AI on projects such as modernizing or replacing legacy systems. Projects could use department-developed AI or a vendor under a contract requiring the vendor's AI to complete at least 90 percent of the work, and the division would write cost analysis reports. No enrolled version exists, so it died June 2, 2025.
Relating to artificial intelligence mental health services.
Texas HB 1265 (2025), as introduced, would have barred anyone from providing AI mental health services in Texas unless the AI application is approved by the Health and Human Services Commission and a licensed mental health professional is available at all times. Clients would have to be told the service is AI-based and give informed consent. Violators would face disciplinary action under the applicable licensing statute. It died when the regular session adjourned June 2, 2025.
Relating to the use of artificial intelligence-based algorithms by health benefit plan issuers, utilization review agents, health care provi…
Texas SB 1411 (2025), as introduced, would have regulated AI-based algorithms in health coverage and care. Health benefit plan issuers and physicians could not discriminate on race, color, national origin, gender, age, vaccination status or disability using clinical AI algorithms. Issuers would have had to disclose AI use in utilization review, submit algorithms and training data to the insurance department, and have a specialist review before an adverse determination. Physicians and providers could have faced license sanctions and fines up to $5,000 per violation. It died June 2, 2025.
Relating to a prohibition on the use of artificial intelligence technology for classroom instruction.
Texas SB 382 (2025), as introduced, would have added Education Code Sec. 28.0028 barring school districts and open-enrollment charter schools from using artificial intelligence technology to provide instruction to students or to replace or supplement a teacher's role in instruction or interacting with students. It has no definitions, exceptions or enforcement provision. It would have applied from the 2025-2026 school year. It died June 2, 2025.
Relating to prohibiting the use of certain political advertising manipulated by generative artificial intelligence technology; creating a cr…
Texas SB 228 (2025), as introduced, would have added Election Code Sec. 255.009 making it a Class B misdemeanor to cause political advertising to be published, distributed or broadcast when it includes an image, audio or video of an officeholder's or candidate's appearance, speech or conduct intentionally manipulated using generative AI to create a realistic but false depiction. The bill has no pre-election window, disclosure safe harbor, exemptions or definitions. No enrolled version exists, so it died June 2, 2025.
Relating to the creation of the artificial intelligence advisory council.
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.
Relating to the protection of minors from harmful, deceptive, or unfair trade practices in connection with the use of certain digital servic…
Texas HB 18, the SCOPE Act (2023), sets duties for digital service providers toward known minors. Its AI-relevant part is Business & Commerce Code 509.056, 'Use of algorithms': a provider that uses algorithms to automate the suggestion, promotion or ranking of information to known minors must make commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the algorithm does not interfere with its duty to prevent harm to minors, and must disclose in its terms or privacy policy how it uses algorithms and what personal data they use. Most of the act takes effect September 1, 2024.
Relating to prosecution of certain criminal offenses prohibiting sexually explicit visual material involving children.
Texas HB 2700 (2023) brings AI-generated and AI-altered sexual images of real children within the state's child pornography and obscenity offenses. Covered material includes depictions of a child recognizable as an actual person by face, likeness or another distinguishing feature, and material in which a child's image was used in creating, adapting or modifying it, including computer-generated visual material created, adapted or modified using an artificial intelligence application or other computer software. It applies to offenses committed on or after September 1, 2023.
Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit videos using deep fake technology; creating a criminal offense.
Texas SB 1361 (2023) created Penal Code 21.165. It is a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly produce or distribute by electronic means, without the depicted person's effective consent, a deep fake video that appears to show the person with intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual conduct. A deep fake video is a video created with intent to deceive that appears to depict a real person performing an action that did not occur in reality. SB 441 (2025) later broadened the offense. Effective September 1, 2023.
Relating to a study on the impacts of using certain motor vehicle technologies.
Texas SB 1308 (2021) became law without the Governor's signature. It required the Department of Transportation and the Department of Public Safety, consulting the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, to study the use of automated driving systems, connected driving systems and other emerging vehicle technologies to reduce congestion at Texas-Mexico ports of entry, and their effects on the transportation workforce, the economy and safety, with a report due January 1, 2023. The act expired September 1, 2023.
Relating to the operation and regulation of certain automated motor vehicles.
Texas HB 3026 (2021) updates the state's automated motor vehicle framework. Operation of automated motor vehicles, including commercial use, and of automated driving systems is governed exclusively by Transportation Code Subchapter J and new section 547.618, which preempts other regulation. A vehicle designed to be driven only by its automated driving system for all trips is exempt from equipment requirements that relate to a human driver and are irrelevant to an automated driving system, and it passes the required safety inspection for those items. Effective September 1, 2021.
Relating to the creation of a criminal offense for fabricating a deceptive video with intent to influence the outcome of an election.
Texas SB 751 (2019) was one of the first state deepfake election laws. It adds subsections to Election Code 255.004 making it an offense, with intent to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election, to create a deep fake video and cause it to be published or distributed within 30 days of an election. A deep fake video is a video created with intent to deceive that appears to depict a real person performing an action that did not occur in reality. The offense is a Class A misdemeanor. Effective September 1, 2019.
Relating to the operation of personal delivery and mobile carrying devices.
Texas SB 969 (2019) authorizes personal delivery devices: robots made mainly to carry cargo on sidewalks, crosswalks and road shoulders and equipped with automated driving technology that lets them operate with remote human support and supervision. State law governs their operation exclusively, along with consistent local rules, and a compliant device is not a vehicle. Only a business entity may operate one, a human agent must be able to monitor or control it, and the business entity is treated as the operator for traffic-law purposes. Effective immediately (June 10, 2019).
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