The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act, known as TRAIGA, is Texas’s comprehensive AI law and the third of its kind nationally. Rather than regulating high-risk AI broadly, it bans specific intentional uses for everyone: developing or deploying AI intended to incite self-harm, harm to others, or crime; AI intended to unlawfully discriminate against protected classes (disparate impact alone is not enough to prove intent); AI for producing illegal exploitative content; and AI intended to infringe constitutional rights.
What the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act Means for Government AI
Government agencies face extra rules: they must disclose to consumers that they are interacting with AI, cannot use AI for social scoring, and cannot use AI to identify people via biometric data scraped from public sources without consent.
Enforcement and the AI Sandbox
The law creates a regulatory sandbox program, establishes the Texas Artificial Intelligence Council, and gives the Attorney General exclusive enforcement with a 60 day cure period and civil penalties. There is no private lawsuit right.
Source: Texas Legislature Online: HB 149
Report a violation: If you believe a business is violating this law, you can file a complaint with the Texas Attorney General Consumer Protection Division.
