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webLegal analysis from Latham & Watkins covering the enacted TRAIGA; relevant for tracking U.S. state-level AI governance trends and comparing approaches to the EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed TRAIGA into law on June 22, 2025, establishing categorical prohibitions on AI systems used for behavioral manipulation, discrimination, deepfakes, and constitutional rights violations, while creating a regulatory sandbox and AI advisory council. The final law was significantly scaled back from its original draft, which had modeled sweeping requirements after the EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act, with most burdensome private-sector requirements removed or limited to government entities. The Act takes effect January 1, 2026.
Key Points
- •TRAIGA prohibits AI systems used for behavioral manipulation, discrimination, child pornography/deepfakes, and infringement of constitutional rights.
- •The final law was dramatically scaled back from its original draft; most private-sector obligations (impact assessments, harm disclosures) were removed.
- •A regulatory sandbox program allows developers to test AI systems under relaxed regulatory conditions.
- •The Texas AI Advisory Council is established to guide state AI policy, advise agencies, and improve the sandbox program.
- •Law takes effect January 1, 2026, and represents a notably lighter-touch approach compared to Colorado and EU frameworks.
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## Key Points:
- The Act prohibits the development and deployment of AI systems for certain purposes, including behavioral manipulation, discrimination, creation or distribution of child pornography or unlawful deepfakes, and infringement of constitutional rights.
- The Act also establishes a regulatory sandbox program for developers and creates the Texas Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council.
- The Act will go into effect on January 1, 2026.
On June 22, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA or the Act) into law, marking the final chapter of a bill that received national attention and underwent major changes throughout the legislative process.
As introduced in December 2024, the original draft of TRAIGA proposed a sweeping regulatory scheme modeled after the Colorado AI Act and the EU AI Act, focusing on “high-risk” artificial intelligence (AI) systems and imposing substantial requirements and liability for developers and deployers in the private sector. However, in March 2025, Texas legislators introduced an amended version that significantly scaled back the bill’s scope. Many of the original draft’s most onerous requirements — such as the duty to protect consumers from foreseeable harm, conduct impact assessments, and disclose the details of high-risk AI systems to consumers — were either deleted entirely or limited to apply solely to governmental entities.[1](https://www.lw.com/en/insights/texas-signs-responsible-ai-governance-act-into-law#fn1)
Still, the enacted version of TRAIGA includes a number of provisions that could impact companies that operate in Texas. Most notably, the Act imposes categorical restrictions on the development and deployment of AI systems for ce
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