# Health-care providers must disclose the use of AI in patient services

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (HB 149, 89th Legislature)
- **Jurisdiction**: Texas (United States)
- **Category**: transparency
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2026-01-01
- **Provision**: Business and Commerce Code Section 551.051

## What the duty requires

A person who provides health-care services or treatment and uses an AI system in relation to those services must disclose that use to the patient, or to the patient's personal representative or guardian, no later than the date the service or treatment is first provided, with an exception for emergencies where the disclosure is made as soon as reasonably possible. The disclosure must be clear, conspicuous and in plain language.

## What an organisation does about it

Add an AI-use statement to intake and consent materials for services that use AI, with an emergency-follow-up rule.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI interaction and use disclosure notices (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-interaction-and-use-disclosure
- AI system inventory and classification (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-system-inventory

## Parent instrument

- Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (HB 149, 89th Legislature)
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-texas-responsible-ai-governance-act-traiga
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-texas-responsible-ai-governance-act-traiga.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-texas-responsible-ai-governance-act-traiga-health-care-ai-disclosure
- **Official source**: https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HB149
- **Provision**: Business and Commerce Code Section 551.051
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-24
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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