Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA) on June 22, 2025, making Texas the second state (after Colorado) to enact omnibus AI legislation. The law applies to developers and deployers of AI systems conducting business in Texas or serving Texas residents, prohibits intentional discriminatory, manipulative, and harmful AI uses, requires biometric consent clarifications, and grants exclusive enforcement authority to the state attorney general with civil penalties ranging from $10,000 to $200,000 per violation. The law includes a 60-day cure period, safe harbors for compliance with NIST AI frameworks, and a regulatory sandbox program. This represents a material expansion of state-level AI regulatory risk for AI developers and deployers operating in Texas, creating a new compliance obligation and enforcement vector separate from federal authority, and signals to financial institutions that state-level AI governance is consolidating around specific risk categories (bias, manipulation, harmful outputs) rather than waiting for federal resolution.
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