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AI regulation in Texas (United States)

Source-linked · checked 11 Sep 2026 1 instrument · 1 binding

Overview

Texas enacted the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA, HB 149) in June 2025, effective 1 January 2026. Narrower than Colorado's law, it prohibits specific harmful uses (manipulation to incite self-harm or crime, social scoring by government, unlawful discrimination with intent, certain biometric identification by government, sexual deepfakes of minors), requires government agencies to disclose AI interaction to consumers, creates an AI regulatory sandbox and a Texas AI Council, and gives the Attorney General exclusive enforcement with a 60-day cure period.

What is the current regulatory status?

TRAIGA in force from 1 January 2026; enforcement by the Attorney General.

Binding rules versus guidance

Binding: Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA). Strategy or guidance: none recorded.

Key policy instruments

Texas (United States) Act / statute In force Binding

Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA)

Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (HB 149, 89th Legislature)

Signed on 22 June 2025 and effective 1 January 2026, TRAIGA bans developing or deploying AI systems intended to manipulate people into self-harm or crime, government social scoring, biometric identification by government from public data without consent, intentional unlawful discrimination against protected classes, and production of child sexual abuse material or unlawful sexual deepfakes. State agencies and health-care providers must disclose AI interactions. It creates a 36-month regulatory sandbox administered by the Department of Information Resources, a Texas Artificial Intelligence Council, and gives the Attorney General exclusive enforcement with civil penalties after a 60-day cure period; disparate impact alone does not prove intent to discriminate.

Applies from 1 Jan 2026 Source-linked · checked 11 Sep 2026 Official source

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How to use this information

  1. Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
  2. Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
  3. Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.

Official government and regulator sources

  1. HB 149, 89th Legislature (Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act)
    Texas Legislature Online · 2025-06-22 · Tier 1 source

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