Title BC, Business and Commerce Code

Sec. 509.053. DIGITAL SERVICE PROVIDER DUTY TO PREVENT HARM TO KNOWN MINORS. (a) In relation to a known minor's use of a digital service, a digital service provider shall develop and implement a strategy to prevent the known minor's exposure to harmful material and other content …

Sec. 509.054. DIGITAL SERVICE PROVIDER DUTY TO CREATE PARENTAL TOOLS. (a) A digital service provider shall create and provide to a verified parent parental tools to allow the verified parent to supervise the verified parent's known minor's use of a digital service. (b) Parental t…

Sec. 509.055. DIGITAL SERVICE PROVIDER DUTIES REGARDING ADVERTISING AND MARKETING. A digital service provider shall make a commercially reasonable effort to prevent advertisers on the digital service provider's digital service from targeting a known minor with advertisements that…

Sec. 509.056. USE OF ALGORITHMS. A digital service provider that uses algorithms to automate the suggestion, promotion, or ranking of information to known minors on the digital service shall: (1) make a commercially reasonable effort to ensure that the algorithm does not interfer…

Sec. 509.057. DIGITAL SERVICE PROVIDER DUTY AS TO HARMFUL MATERIAL. (a) A digital service provider as defined by Section 509.001 that knowingly publishes or distributes material, more than one-third of which is harmful material or obscene as defined by Section 43.21, Penal Code, …

Sec. 509.058. PROTECTION OF TRADE SECRETS. Nothing in this subchapter may be construed to require a digital service provider to disclose a trade secret. Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 795 (H.B. 18), Sec. 2.01, eff. September 1, 2024.

Sec. 509.059. USE OF KNOWN MINOR'S PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES. Nothing in this subchapter may be construed to prevent a digital service provider from collecting, processing, or sharing a known minor's personal identifying information in a manner necessa…

Sec. 509.101. VERIFICATION OF PARENT OR GUARDIAN. (a) A digital service provider shall verify, using a commercially reasonable method and for each person seeking to perform an action on a digital service as a minor's parent or guardian: (1) the person's identity; and (2) the rela…

Sec. 509.102. POWERS OF VERIFIED PARENT. (a) A verified parent is entitled to alter the duties of a digital service provider under Section 509.052 with regard to the verified parent's known minor. (b) A verified parent is entitled to supervise the verified parent's known minor's …

Sec. 509.103. ACCESS TO KNOWN MINOR'S PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION. (a) A known minor's verified parent may submit a request to a digital service provider to: (1) review and download any personal identifying information associated with the minor in the possession of the digit…

Sec. 509.104. MINOR IN CONSERVATORSHIP OF DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES. If a minor is in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services, the department may designate the minor's caregiver or a member of the department's staff to perform th…

Sec. 509.151. DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICE; ENFORCEMENT BY ATTORNEY GENERAL. A violation of this chapter is a deceptive act or practice actionable under Subchapter E, Chapter 17, solely as an enforcement action by the consumer protection division of the attorney general's office. Add…

Sec. 509.152. PRIVATE CAUSE OF ACTION. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), this chapter may not be construed as providing a basis for, or being subject to, a private right of action for a violation of this chapter. (b) If a digital service provider violates this chapter, th…