Texas Business & Commerce Code

§ 510.003 — APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER TO CERTAIN ENTITIES

BC § 510.003Title 11. PERSONAL IDENTITY INFORMATION · Part A. IDENTIFYING INFORMATION · Ch. 510. DATA BROKERS

Statute text

(a)Except as provided by Subsection (b), this chapter applies only to a data broker that, in a 12-month period, derives:

(1)more than 50 percent of the data broker's revenue directly from processing or transferring personal data not collected by the data broker directly from the individuals to whom the data pertains; or

(2)revenue directly from processing or transferring the personal data of more than 50,000 individuals not collected by the data broker directly from the individuals to whom the data pertains.

(b)This chapter does not apply to:

(1)a service provider, including a service provider that engages in the business of processing employee data for a third-party employer for the sole purpose of providing benefits to the third-party employer's employees;

(2)a person or entity that collects personal data from another person or entity to which the person or entity is related by common ownership or corporate control, provided a reasonable consumer would expect the persons or entities to share data;

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Legislative history

Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1013 (S.B. 2121), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.