Data Broker Laws
Texas Data Broker Registration Law: Requirements and Deadlines
What Texas’s data broker law requires, maintained by Stauss PLLC. Last reviewed August 2026.
What You Need to Know
Texas' data broker law requires entities to annually register with the state, pay a registration fee, and post a disclosure on their websites and mobile applications. The law was amended in 2025 to modify its definitions of "data broker" and its applicability provision.
Official law text
How Texas defines and regulates data brokers
| Who counts as a data broker | Business entity that collects, processes, or transfers personal data that the business entity did not collect directly from the individual linked or linkable to the data. |
| Which businesses it applies to | Law applies to data brokers that, in a 12-month period, derive: (1) more than 50% of revenue directly from processing or transferring personal data not collected by data broker directly from individuals to whom data pertains; or (2) revenue directly from processing or transferring personal data of more than 50,000 individuals not collected by data broker directly from individuals to whom data pertains |
| Information covered | “Personal data” means any information, including sensitive data, that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual. The term includes pseudonymous data when the information is used by a controller or processor in conjunction with additional information that reasonably links the information to an identified or identifiable individual. The term does not include deidentified data, employee data, or publicly available information. |
| Other provisions | Data brokers must post data broker notice on website Data brokers must have comprehensive information security program |
| Penalties | $100 daily fine + amount of unpaid registration fee with $10,000 annual cap |
Compliance requirements5
| Requirement | Applies? |
|---|---|
| Annual Registration Requirement | Yes |
| Registration Disclosure Obligations | Yes |
| Privacy Policy Disclosure Obligations *But see “other” column | No |
| Creates Substantive Consumer Rights | No |
| Delete Request & Opt-out Platform (DROP) | No |
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