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Which Data Laws Apply to a Texas Organization

Which of the many data laws that touch a Texas business actually reach yours, and in what order to read them.

LG01 · Hub: Texas Privacy Statutes · Intended reader: General counsel, privacy leads, and business operators

Scope

A decision tree that walks a Texas organization through which data laws reach it, built around the organization, the people whose data it holds, the data types and purposes, locations, sector, exemptions, and contracts. It separates legal requirement from governance recommendation at every fork. Texas relevance: Texas has no single comprehensive code; obligations arrive from the TDPSA, the DTPA, CUBI, chapter 510 brokers law, the SCOPE Act and SB 2420, sector regimes, and federal law, so Texas operators need an ordering device rather than a statute list.

Section outline

  1. Deck: "Which of the many data laws that touch a Texas business actually reach yours, and in what order to read them."
  2. Short answer: which regimes most commonly apply, and the fork order.
  3. Section: Start With People, Data, and Purpose (the decision-tree inputs).
  4. Section: TDPSA Applicability Without a General Revenue Floor.
  5. Section: Entity Exemptions Versus Data Exemptions.
  6. Section: Residual Small-Business Sensitive-Data-Sale Duty.
  7. Section: Interstate Processing and the Texas Nexus.
  8. Section: Employee and B2B Boundaries.
  9. Section: Sector Duties That Apply Independently (health, finance, education, telecom).
  10. Section: Contract Duties That Apply Independently (processor and vendor contracts).
  11. Section: Consumer-Protection and Other-State Duties That Apply Independently (DTPA, other state laws).
  12. Section: Small Businesses and TDPSA Scope Exemptions.
  13. What Is Unsettled: boundary questions where regimes overlap or text is ambiguous.
  14. Sources.
  15. Related reading: LG02 (TDPSA duties), LG14 (CUBI and sensitive data), /resources/state-privacy-comparison/ (CR01, sourced in part from LG01).

Assigned content modules

  • G01: Which Data Laws Apply to a Texas Organization
  • G03: TDPSA Scope Exemptions and Small Businesses

Required research sections

  • TDPSA applicability without a general revenue floor (what it covers)
  • Entity exemptions versus data exemptions under the TDPSA (what it covers)
  • Residual small-business sensitive-data-sale duty (what it covers)
  • Interstate processing and the Texas nexus (what it covers)
  • Employee and B2B boundaries (what it covers)
  • When sector, contract, consumer-protection, or other-state duties apply independently (what it covers)
  • Small businesses and TDPSA scope exemptions (what it covers)

Research anchors and owner works

Anchors: L01, L03, L04, L07, L08, L09. Owner works: A01 (dependency; content to be supplied by owner, not invented)

Owner works: A01 (dependency; content to be supplied by owner, not invented).

Sister-site crossover

none required. No companion link needed; this guide is original Texas data law territory. If the drafting pass implies an AI-site applicability companion, mark source-needed: do not link until verified.

Industry: All industries
Track: Compliance

Related reading

  • TDPSA duties