Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 121.002 (3): DEFINITIONS.

In this chapter:
(1) "Age category" means information collected by the owner of an app store to designate a user based on the age categories described by Section 121.021(b).
(2) "App store" means a publicly available Internet website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes software applications from the owner or developer of a software application to the user of a mobile device.
(3) "Minor" means a child who is younger than 18 years of age who has not had the disabilities of minority removed for general purposes.
(4) "Mobile device" means a portable, wireless electronic device, including a tablet or smartphone, capable of transmitting, receiving, processing, and storing information wirelessly that runs an operating system designed to manage hardware resources and perform common services for software applications on handheld electronic devices.
(5) "Personal data" means any information, including sensitive data, that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual. The term includes pseudonymous data when the data is used by a person who processes or determines the purpose and means of processing the data in conjunction with additional information that reasonably links the data to an identified or identifiable individual. The term does not include deidentified data or publicly available information.
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 200 (S.B. 2420), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2026.

Where this section sits in the code

BUSINESS AND COMMERCE CODE
TITLE 5. REGULATION OF BUSINESSES AND SERVICES
SUBTITLE C. BUSINESS OPERATIONS Chapter 121, consisting of Secs. 121.001 to 121.102, was added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 200 (S.B. 2420), Sec. 1. For another Chapter 121, consisting of Secs. 121.001 to 121.006, added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 497 (S.B. 1383), Sec. 1, see Sec. 121.001 et seq., post. For another Chapter 121, consisting of Secs. 121.001 to 121.104, added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 2963), Sec. 1, see Sec. 121.001 et seq., post. For another Chapter 121, consisting of Secs. 121.001 to 121.002, added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1089 (H.B. 3966), Sec. 1, see Sec. 121.001 et seq., post.
CHAPTER 121. SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS
SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

In this chapter:

(1) "Age category" means information collected by the owner of an app store to designate a user based on the age categories described by Section 121.021(b).

(2) "App store" means a publicly available Internet website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes software applications from the owner or developer of a software application to the user of a mobile device.

(3) "Minor" means a child who is younger than 18 years of age who has not had the disabilities of minority removed for general purposes.

(4) "Mobile device" means a portable, wireless electronic device, including a tablet or smartphone, capable of transmitting, receiving, processing, and storing information wirelessly that runs an operating system designed to manage hardware resources and perform common services for software applications on handheld electronic devices.

(5) "Personal data" means any information, including sensitive data, that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual. The term includes pseudonymous data when the data is used by a person who processes or determines the purpose and means of processing the data in conjunction with additional information that reasonably links the data to an identified or identifiable individual. The term does not include deidentified data or publicly available information.

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 200 (S.B. 2420), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2026.

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