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Texas data broker law
Texas regulates data brokers through Business and Commerce Code chapter 510 (redesignated; older materials cite the prior chapter number). The chapter imposes: a conspicuous website or mobile-app notice stating that the entity is a data broker (sec. 510.004); registration with the Secretary of State with a $300 fee and annual renewal for brokers meeting the revenue or volume thresholds (secs. 510.003, 510.005); a searchable public registry of registrants (sec. 510.006); and a written comprehensive information security program with administrative, technical, and physical safeguards (sec. 510.007). The chapter imposes no acquisition or downstream-sale restrictions. 2025 amendments (SB 2121, which redefined 'data broker' and changed the thresholds; SB 1343, notice and registration changes; HB 1620 redesignation from chapter 509), effective September 1, 2025. Enforcement: civil penalties for notice and registration violations under section 510.008; a violation of the information-security duty under section 510.007 constitutes a deceptive trade practice under the DTPA (sec. 510.009).
Status
- Legal status
- In effect (Amended by SB 2121 and SB 1343 (2025); renumbered by HB 1620)
- Allegation or finding
- Operative law
- Applicability
- Data brokers doing business in Texas
- Enforceability
- Binding on parties within scope
- Effective date
- September 1, 2023; redesignated and amended September 1, 2025 (HB 1620, SB 2121, SB 1343)
- Law checked through
- October 12, 2026
- Primary-source pinpoint
- ch. 510
- Primary source
- https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/BC/htm/BC.510.htm
- Citation
- Bus. & Com. Code ch. 510 (SB 2105, 2023)
- Source
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 510
Procedural events
- 2025-09-01: SB 1343 amendments and HB 1620 redesignation (ch. 509 to ch. 510) take effect
Related guides
- Texas Data Brokers and Their Supply Chains
- Attorney General Enforcement and Investigations
- Privacy Representations and the DTPA