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Texas: the laws your website or app must follow

If your customers are in Texas, these are the privacy, consumer, security, accessibility and AI laws SafeLaunch checks your site against, with what each one requires and where in the law it says so.

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Texas Data Privacy and Security Act

In force since 1 July 2024.

Who it covers: Businesses in Texas or targeting Texans, except SBA-defined small businesses (who still need consent to sell sensitive data).

What it requires of a website or app (7)

  • A privacy notice: categories, purposes, how to exercise rights and appeal, third-party sharing, contact methodsChecked§541.102(a)
  • "NOTICE: We may sell your sensitive personal data." where that happens (if if you sell sensitive data)Your answers§541.102(b)
  • Consent before processing sensitive data (if if you handle sensitive data)Your answers§541.101(b)(4)
  • Rights to access, correct, delete, port and opt out of sale, targeted ads and profiling; respond within 45 days with an appealChecked§541.051–.055
  • Reasonable data securityChecked§541.101(b)(2)
  • Data protection assessments for targeted advertising, sales and sensitive dataPrepared§541.105
  • Processor contracts with the required termsPrepared§541.104

Sources:Bus. & Com. Code ch. 541

SCOPE Act (largely enjoined)

Monitoring/filtering, targeted-ad and age-verification provisions enjoined (Aug 2024, Feb 2025) pending final judgment.

Who it covers: Digital services that let users socialise and post content, used by minors under 18.

What it requires of a website or app (2)

  • Let users register their age; limit data collection from known minors (if if minors use a social service)Your answersBus. & Com. Code ch. 509
  • Parental tools to manage a minor's settings (if if minors use a social service)Your answersch. 509

Sources:SCOPE Act litigation (KERA)

HB 1181 (age verification for sexual material)

In force; upheld by the US Supreme Court in Free Speech Coalition v.

Who it covers: Commercial sites where more than a third of the content is sexual material harmful to minors.

What it requires of a website or app (2)

  • Reasonable age verification (ID or a commercial verification method) before access (if if you publish sexual material)CheckedCiv. Prac. & Rem. Code §129B.002
  • No retention of the identifying information used for verification (if if you verify age)AI review§129B.002(b)

Sources:Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code ch. 129B

Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (from 1 Jan 2026)

In force since 1 Jan 2026; enforced by the Texas Attorney General with a 60-day cure period.

Who it covers: Anyone developing or deploying AI systems in Texas.

What it requires of a website or app (4)

  • No AI system built or used to encourage self-harm, harm to others or crime (if if the product uses AI)AI reviewHB 149 (prohibited uses)
  • No AI system built or used to produce child sexual abuse material or unlawful sexual deepfakes (if if you provide generative AI)AI reviewHB 149 (prohibited uses)
  • No AI system intended to discriminate unlawfully against a protected class (if if AI makes decisions about people)Your answersHB 149 (discrimination)
  • Health care: patients are told when AI is used in their care or treatment (if if you provide health care services with AI)CheckedHB 149 (health care disclosure)

Sources:Texas HB 149 (89th Legislature)

App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420)

Effective 1 January 2026.

Who it covers: Developers of apps offered through an app store to people in Texas, and the app stores themselves.

What it requires of a website or app (4)

  • Age-rate the app and each in-app purchase, and give every app store the rating and the reasons for it (if if you publish a mobile app)Prepared§121.052
  • Tell each app store before a significant change: terms, privacy policy, data collected, age rating, monetisation or features (if if you publish a mobile app)Prepared§121.053
  • Use the age category and parental-consent status the app store provides to verify each user's age and, for minors, a parent's consent (if if you publish a mobile app)Checked§121.054
  • Rely on the store's age and consent data in good faith, and keep evidence that you did: it is a defence (if if you publish a mobile app)Prepared§121.056(c)

Sources:Texas Legislature: SB 2420 (89R), enrolled

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A plain-language summary of what each law requires of a website or app, from the SafeLaunch rulebook, with the provision and official sources. It is not legal advice and not every duty in each law is listed.