Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code

§ 143A.003 — WAIVER PROHIBITED

CP § 143A.003Title 6. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS · Ch. 143A. DISCOURSE ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Statute text

(a)A waiver or purported waiver of the protections provided by this chapter is void as unlawful and against public policy, and a court or arbitrator may not enforce or give effect to the waiver, including in an action brought under Section 143A.007, notwithstanding any contract or choice-of-law provision in a contract.

(b)The waiver prohibition described by Subsection (a) is a public-policy limitation on contractual and other waivers of the highest importance and interest to this state, and this state is exercising and enforcing this limitation to the full extent permitted by the United States Constitution and Texas Constitution.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 3 (H.B. 20), Sec. 7, eff. December 2, 2021.