Texas Legislature Passes House Bill 149 To Regulate AI Use

On May 31, 2025, the Texas legislature passed House Bill 149 (H.B. 149), the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act ("TRAIGA"), and presented the bill to Governor Greg Abbott on June 2, 2025 for signature. If enacted, TRAIGA imposes a comprehensive regulatory framework for AI in Texas and joins a growing number of states to enact AI legislation to date (Colorado, Utah, and California, in addition to state laws targeting certain sectors or use cases). TRAIGA primarily impacts companies developing or deploying AI products available to Texas consumers, businesses using AI in customer-facing contexts, government agencies using AI for any purpose, and vendors and contractors supplying AI-related services to the government. However, the bill underwent significant changes during the legislative process, and no longer resembles a broad, risk-based framework, but rather a set of prohibitions on certain egregious uses of AI and a reinforcement of current