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Annex

Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA) Regulatory Requirements

This annex gives the adopter a single per-regime view of Texas's comprehensive state AI statute, the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA), HB 149 of the 89th Legislature (2025), effective 1 January 2026. It sits alongside the other ai/jurisdictions/ US-state annexes (Colorado, California, New York City). Colorado is a two-regime jurisdiction (see ai/jurisdictions/annex-ai-us-colorado.md): the outgoing Senate Bill 24-205 framework (signed 17 May 2024; implementation postponed to 30 June 2026 and enforcement currently frozen pending litigation) casts the core duty as reasonable care to avoid algorithmic discrimination, backed by a deployer risk-management policy and program and an impact assessment, and the incoming Senate Bill 26-189 framework, which repeals and re-enacts it for consequential decisions made on or after 1 January 2027, recasts the core duty as documentation, record-keeping, and point-of-interaction and post-adverse-outcome disclosure for automated decision-making technology. TRAIGA takes a different shape from both: it is organized around a set of intent-based prohibited uses that bind any covered person, a narrower set of prohibitions specific to governmental entities, an AI-interaction disclosure duty that falls primarily on governmental agencies (with a separate duty on health-care providers), a regulatory sandbox, and an advisory council, and it preempts local AI regulation. This annex frames those provisions and cross-references the operational substance rather than restating it; the controlling text is HB 149 as codified.

Type
Annex
Version
0.0.10
Date
2026-10-27
Owner
Chief Information Security Officer
Approving authority
Governance Library Maintainer
Classification
Public
Confidentiality
Public
Category
AI Governance
Review frequency
Annual and upon material change to TRAIGA, Attorney-General enforcement activity, or the Chapter 553 sandbox and Chapter 554 council implementation
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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Outline

  • Purpose
  • Applicable law and regulatory authority
  • Transition timeline
  • Scope: covered actors and covered systems
  • Core obligations
  • Consumer rights
  • Enforcement
  • Regulatory sandbox and the Texas Artificial Intelligence Council
  • Relationship to the Texas privacy layer
  • Limitations
  • Framework alignment

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