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Intellectual Property laws and bills in Texas

Every bill in the Texas Legislature that falls inside the Intellectual Property Tracker's scope, with where each one currently stands.

20

Bills in Scope

11

Past Committee

22 June 2025

Most Recent Action

Intellectual Property bills in Texas

4Enacted

1Cleared both chambers

6Past committee

9Introduced or inactive

20 bills in scope

Enacted

4

HB 127Relating to measures to protect institutions of higher education from foreign adversaries and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of theft of trade secrets; increasing a criminal penalty.EnactedHB 4081Relating to the sealing of certain documents alleged to contain trade secrets.EnactedHB 783Relating to civil liability for online impersonation.EnactedHB 126Relating to the compensation and professional representation of prospective student athletes and student athletes participating in intercollegiate athletic programs at certain institutions of higher education.Enacted

Cleared both chambers

1

HB 449Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit media using deep fake technology.Vetoed

Past committee

6

SB 442Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the offense of unlawful production or distribution of certain sexually explicit media; increasing a criminal penalty.Passed chamberSB 1960Relating to digital replication rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals; providing private causes of action; authorizing a fee.Passed chamberHB 3694Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of certain sexually explicit media and to the removal of certain intimate visual depictions published on online platforms without the consent of the person depicted; increasing criminal penalties.Passed chamberHB 3787Relating to the sale and distribution of counterfeit or unsafe lighters; imposing a civil penalty.Passed chamberHB 421Relating to the creation of certain explicit deep fake material; providing a private cause of action.Passed chamberSB 893Relating to criminal offenses for creating and distributing certain misleading images, audio recordings, and videos; creating a criminal offense.Passed chamber

Introduced or inactive

9

HB 5543Relating to creating a private cause of action for bad faith claims of patent infringement.DeadSB 2430Relating to measures to protect public institutions of higher education from foreign adversaries and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of theft of trade secrets; providing civil and administrative penalties; increasing a criminal penalty.In committeeHB 5517Relating to sexually explicit artificially generated images and videos.In committeeHB 3950Relating to digital replication rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals; providing private causes of action; authorizing a fee.In committeeHB 3220Relating to the compensation and professional representation of prospective student athletes and student athletes participating in intercollegiate athletic programs at certain institutions of higher education.In committeeHB 2795Relating to criminal offenses for creating and distributing certain misleading images and videos; creating a criminal offense.In committeeHB 2907Relating to the use by a landlord or landlord's manager or agent of a tenant's name or likeness for a commercial purpose.In committeeSB 2030Relating to prohibited student athlete name, image, and likeness agreements; providing injunctive relief and a civil penalty.In committeeSB 655Relating to prohibited student athlete name, image, and likeness agreements; providing injunctive relief and a civil penalty.In committee

Bill titles link to the Texas Legislature's own page.

Coverage depth varies by jurisdiction. How this is measured, and where it is thinner.

What's In Scope

How Intellectual Property bills are selected

In scope are the rights states genuinely own: digital replicas and the right of publicity, name, image and likeness including student athletes, restrictive covenants and talent mobility, and the treatment of training data and synthetic performances where a state creates a right rather than describing a federal one.

Scope is defined by a written topic profile that every bill is measured against. The profiles are drafted by a model and validated by retrieval measurement against a judged set of bills, not reviewed by an attorney. LawSignals is a research tool and does not provide legal advice.

Other practice areas in Texas

Intellectual Property legislation in other jurisdictions

50 more currently hold bills in this tracker

Texas is one of Intellectual Property's jurisdictions

The tracker follows this subject everywhere it is legislated, and publishes a monthly issue on what moved across all of them.

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