Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 98C.004 · Chapter 98C. LIABILITY FOR ONLINE IMPERSONATION
LIABILITY FOR ONLINE IMPERSONATION; EXCEPTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person is liable to another person injured by the person's online impersonation if:
(1) the person knowingly and with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten the injured person used the online impersonation to create a false identity; and
(2) the online impersonation is, to a reasonable person, virtually indistinguishable from an actual person.
(b) A person is not liable for an online impersonation of which a purpose is satire or parody.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 927 (H.B. 783), Sec. 1, 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/CP/htm/CP.98C.htm
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- sha256 f89d3615b614f0a6b9969c55905618bee3902e7c3b4a8d4e5e6f37e115a45b95
- Composed by
- 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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