89R15476 BCH-F
By: Johnson S.B. No. 2121
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the regulation of certain business entities that act as
data brokers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 509.003(a), Business & Commerce Code, as
added by Chapter 963 (S.B. 2105), Acts of the 88th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2023, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), this chapter
applies only to a business entity [data broker] that, in a 12-month
period, derives:
(1) more than 50 percent of the business entity's [data
broker's] revenue from processing or transferring personal data
that the business entity [data broker] did not collect directly
from the individuals to whom the data pertains; or
(2) revenue from processing or transferring the
personal data of more than 50,000 individuals that the business
entity [data broker] did not collect directly from the individuals
to whom the data pertains.
SECTION 2. It is the intent of the 89th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2025, that the amendments made by this Act to Section
509.003(a), Business & Commerce Code, as added by Chapter 963 (S.B.
2105), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, be
harmonized with another Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2025, relating to nonsubstantive additions to and
corrections in enacted codes.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.