{
  "name": "Texas AI Law Tracker",
  "publisher": "Texas AI Report",
  "url": "https://texasaireport.com/tracker",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-06-27",
  "license": "https://texasaireport.com/ai-usage",
  "attribution": "Source: Texas AI Report (https://texasaireport.com/tracker). Use with attribution.",
  "status": [
    {
      "label": "TRAIGA (Texas)",
      "value": "In effect",
      "sub": "Effective Jan 1, 2026 · HB 149, signed Jun 22, 2025",
      "tone": "live"
    },
    {
      "label": "TX AG complaint portal",
      "value": "Due Sep 1, 2026",
      "sub": "Statutory deadline to go live — the enforcement inflection point",
      "tone": "pending"
    },
    {
      "label": "Reported enforcement actions",
      "value": "0",
      "sub": "No publicly reported TRAIGA actions or CIDs as of late June 2026",
      "tone": "neutral"
    }
  ],
  "upcomingDeadlines": [
    {
      "date": "Aug 2, 2026",
      "what": "EU AI Act — most high-risk-system obligations take effect",
      "who": "Texas companies with EU operations or customers"
    },
    {
      "date": "Sep 1, 2026",
      "what": "Texas AG consumer complaint portal — statutory deadline to be live",
      "who": "All TRAIGA-covered entities"
    },
    {
      "date": "Jan 1, 2027",
      "what": "Colorado SB 26-189 (disclosure + consumer rights) takes effect",
      "who": "Covered ADMT across 7 domains"
    }
  ],
  "regimeComparison": [
    {
      "Dimension": "Effective date",
      "TRAIGA (Texas)": "Jan 1, 2026",
      "Colorado SB 26-189": "Jan 1, 2027",
      "EU AI Act": "Phased: Feb 2025–Aug 2027+"
    },
    {
      "Dimension": "Framework",
      "TRAIGA (Texas)": "Prohibition-based (intent required)",
      "Colorado SB 26-189": "Disclosure + consumer rights",
      "EU AI Act": "Risk-based tiered"
    },
    {
      "Dimension": "Enforcer",
      "TRAIGA (Texas)": "TX AG exclusively",
      "Colorado SB 26-189": "CO AG exclusively",
      "EU AI Act": "National authorities + EU AI Office"
    },
    {
      "Dimension": "Private right of action",
      "TRAIGA (Texas)": "No",
      "Colorado SB 26-189": "No",
      "EU AI Act": "No (complaint mechanism only)"
    },
    {
      "Dimension": "Disclosure duties",
      "TRAIGA (Texas)": "Gov agencies + healthcare only",
      "Colorado SB 26-189": "All covered ADMT in 7 domains",
      "EU AI Act": "Varies by risk tier"
    },
    {
      "Dimension": "Impact assessments",
      "TRAIGA (Texas)": "No",
      "Colorado SB 26-189": "No (eliminated)",
      "EU AI Act": "Yes (high-risk systems)"
    },
    {
      "Dimension": "NIST safe harbor",
      "TRAIGA (Texas)": "Yes (explicit)",
      "Colorado SB 26-189": "No",
      "EU AI Act": "No"
    },
    {
      "Dimension": "Max penalty",
      "TRAIGA (Texas)": "$200,000 / uncurable violation",
      "Colorado SB 26-189": "Not yet specified",
      "EU AI Act": "€35M or 7% global revenue"
    }
  ],
  "traigaPenaltyTiers": [
    {
      "tier": "Curable violations",
      "amount": "$10,000–$12,000 per violation"
    },
    {
      "tier": "Uncurable violations",
      "amount": "$80,000–$200,000 per violation"
    },
    {
      "tier": "Continuing violations",
      "amount": "$2,000–$40,000 per day"
    },
    {
      "tier": "Agency sanctions (licensed persons)",
      "amount": "up to $100,000"
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "date": "Jun 22, 2025",
      "event": "Gov. Abbott signs HB 149 (TRAIGA) into law."
    },
    {
      "date": "Dec 2025",
      "event": "White House executive order criticizes Colorado’s risk-tiered AI approach."
    },
    {
      "date": "Jan 1, 2026",
      "event": "TRAIGA takes effect in Texas."
    },
    {
      "date": "Apr 27, 2026",
      "event": "Federal magistrate stays Colorado’s original AI Act (SB 24-205) after an xAI suit and DOJ intervention."
    },
    {
      "date": "May 14, 2026",
      "event": "Gov. Polis signs SB 26-189, repealing and replacing Colorado’s AI Act."
    },
    {
      "date": "Aug 2, 2026",
      "event": "EU AI Act high-risk-system obligations take effect."
    },
    {
      "date": "Sep 1, 2026",
      "event": "Statutory deadline for the Texas AG complaint portal to go live."
    },
    {
      "date": "Jan 1, 2027",
      "event": "Colorado SB 26-189 takes effect."
    }
  ]
}