Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 120.102 · Subchapter C. COMPLAINT PROCEDURES
PROCESSING OF COMPLAINTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A social media platform that receives notice of illegal content or illegal activity on the social media platform shall make a good faith effort to evaluate the legality of the content or activity within 48 hours of receiving the notice, excluding hours during a Saturday or Sunday and subject to reasonable exceptions based on concerns about the legitimacy of the notice.
(b) A social media platform that receives notice of explicit deep fake material on the social media platform shall:
(1) immediately confirm to the user that the social media platform is aware of the material;
(2) remove the content reported by the user and any known content that is a copy of or identical to the reported content as explicit deep fake material; and
(3) not later than the seventh day after the date the user submitted the report to the social media platform, provide a written notice to the user updating the user on the status of the reported content.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 3 (H.B. 20), Sec. 2, eff. December 2, 2021.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 749 (H.B. 3133), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.120.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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