# Developers and distributors must not build AI intended to produce child sexual abuse material or unlawful sexual deepfakes

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (HB 149, 89th Legislature)
- **Jurisdiction**: Texas (United States)
- **Category**: prohibited_practice
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2026-01-01
- **Provision**: Business and Commerce Code Section 551.057

## What the duty requires

A person may not develop or distribute an AI system with the sole intent of producing, assisting or aiding in producing, or distributing child pornography or unlawful deep-fake videos or images, including sexually explicit deepfakes of a person without consent, or of engaging in sexually explicit text-based conversations while impersonating or imitating a child, in violation of the Texas Penal Code.

## What an organisation does about it

Enforce content-safety filters and abuse-detection on generative products and record the intended purpose of any image or chat model at release.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Adversarial and red-team testing for generative AI (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/genai-red-team-testing
- Prohibited and unacceptable-use screening gate (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/prohibited-use-screening-gate

## 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-sexual-content-and-csam-prohibition
- **Official source**: https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HB149
- **Provision**: Business and Commerce Code Section 551.057
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: high
- **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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