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89(R) SB 2121 - Enrolled version - Bill Text
S.B. No. 2121
AN ACT
relating to the regulation of certain business entities that act as
data brokers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 509.001(4), Business & Commerce Code, as
added by Chapter 963 (S.B. 2105), Acts of the 88th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2023, is amended to read as follows:
(4) "Data broker" means a business entity
that
collects, processes, or transfers
[
whose principal source of
revenue is derived from the collecting, processing, or transferring
of
] personal data that the
business
entity did not collect directly
from the individual linked or linkable to the data.
SECTION 2. Section 509.003(a), Business & Commerce Code, as
added by Chapter 963 (S.B. 2105), Acts of the 88th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2023, is amended to read as follows:
(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 [
that the
data broker did
] not
collected by the data broker
[
collect
]
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 [
that the data
broker did
] not
collected by the data broker
[
collect
] directly
from the individuals to whom the data pertains.
SECTION 3. It is the intent of the 89th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2025, that the amendments made by this Act be harmonized
with another Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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______________________________
President of the Senate
Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2121 passed the Senate on
April 24, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 31, 2025, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2121 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 131,
Nays 2, one present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor