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How Existing Law Applies to AI in Texas is the starting Guide. The remaining Guides are grouped by subject.
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Texas AI Statutes
How Existing Law Applies to AI in Texas
Which Texas and federal laws reach an AI use before any AI statute does, and how to tell them apart.
TRAIGA Explained
Who the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act covers, what it prohibits, and how the Attorney General enforces it.
Texas AI Laws Beyond TRAIGA
The other Texas statutes that name artificial intelligence, what each requires and whom each reaches.
Deepfakes, Voice Clones, and Likeness
When synthetic images, video or audio of a real person are unlawful in Texas, and what platforms must do when they appear.
AI in Texas Health Care
The Texas and federal rules that govern AI in diagnosis, records, patient communication and coverage decisions.
Government AI and Public Records
What Texas requires of state agencies, local governments and their vendors when they use AI, and how AI records fit the Public Information Act.
Records, Evidence, and Privilege
AI Conversations Are Records
Prompts and outputs are stored, can be preserved under a litigation hold and can be ordered produced, as email once was.
Privilege and AI Tools
When a confidential fact goes into a chatbot, privilege and work product may not follow it.
AI in Legal Research and Court Filings
What a Texas lawyer must check before AI-assisted work reaches a court.
AI Notetakers and Recording Consent
Texas allows one-party consent to record, but AI notetakers raise questions about other states’ laws, vendors, voiceprints and privilege.
Authenticating AI Evidence
How AI-generated or AI-altered exhibits are authenticated and challenged under existing Texas and federal rules.
Trade Secrets and AI Work
Employee Use of AI and Confidential Information
Which AI tools employees may use, what they may put into them, and why the answer affects trade secret protection.
AI and Trade Secret Protection
How AI changes the two elements that decide whether information is a trade secret: secrecy measures and ascertainability.
Prompts and System Prompts as Trade Secrets
When prompt libraries, system prompts and AI workflows can be protected, and what defeats protection.
Departing Employees, New Hires, and AI
AI tools give information new ways to leave with an employee and new ways to arrive with one.
Ownership of AI-Assisted Work
Who owns what an AI tool helps produce depends on human contribution and contract terms.
Governance and Vendors
Before a Business Adopts an AI Tool
Identify the task, the information the service can reach, the binding vendor terms, and the person who may approve its output.
AI Vendor Contracts
The terms that matter in an AI services agreement, which ones Texas law requires, and how Texas courts read risk-shifting clauses.
AI Data Lifecycle and Minimization
What enters an AI system, what persists inside it and around it, and when it should leave.
AI Agents and Contract Formation
When software acts for a business, Texas law can treat its actions as the business’s own.
Board Oversight of AI
What directors of a Texas company should know and record about AI risk.
AI Governance Programs and the TRAIGA Defenses
Why testing, feedback channels and a recognized risk framework matter under Texas law, and what a workable program records.
Privacy and Biometrics
Personal Data and Biometric Information in AI Systems
How the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act and the biometric identifier statute apply when AI systems collect, infer or train on information about people.
Texas AI Processor Duties
What the TDPSA requires of AI vendors that process personal data for a business, and what HB 149 added.
Minors, Apps, and AI
The Texas and federal rules that apply when children and teenagers use apps, platforms and AI services.
AI Security Incidents and Breach Notification
When an AI system leaks or exposes data, Texas’s ordinary breach rules apply, and the clock starts when the business determines a breach occurred.
Employment, Liability, and Consumers
AI in Employment Decisions
What changes when AI ranks applicants, screens interviews or evaluates employees, and what does not.
Who Is Responsible When AI Gets It Wrong
When an AI output causes harm, ordinary Texas law decides who pays.
AI in Customer Communications
What governs what an AI says to customers, how it contacts them, and how a business describes its AI.
AI in Insurance and Financial Services
Sector rules for AI in underwriting, claims, utilization review and credit decisions in Texas.
Chatbots and AI Companions
The Texas prohibitions, enforcement activity and litigation that apply to conversational AI, especially when users are vulnerable.
Algorithmic Pricing and Antitrust
When pricing software that draws on competitors’ data becomes an agreement in restraint of trade.
Federal and Multistate Rules
Federal Preemption and State AI Laws
What the federal government has done to limit state AI laws, and why TRAIGA still applies today.
Federal Laws That Apply to AI Use
The federal statutes that already govern AI use in Texas, and why a change in agency policy does not by itself change the statute.
Other States and the EU: AI Laws That Reach Texas Companies
The out-of-state AI laws most likely to reach a Texas company, and the dates that matter.