Bill Text: TX SB2152 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to third-party software providers' ability to manage certain users' social media accounts.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-24 - Referred to State Affairs [SB2152 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB2152-Introduced.html
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| By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 2152 | |
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| relating to third-party software providers' ability to manage | ||
| certain users' social media accounts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 120, Business & Commerce | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 120.1031 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 120.1031. THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE PROVIDERS. A social | ||
| media platform shall create, maintain, and make available to | ||
| third-party software providers a set of real-time application | ||
| programming interfaces through which a child or a parent or | ||
| guardian of a child may delegate permission to a third-party | ||
| software provider to manage the online interactions, content, and | ||
| account settings of the child on the social media platform on the | ||
| same terms as the child. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
