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

Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 98C.004: LIABILITY FOR ONLINE IMPERSONATION; EXCEPTION.

Where this section sits in the code

CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE
TITLE 4. LIABILITY IN TORT
CHAPTER 98C. LIABILITY FOR ONLINE IMPERSONATION

(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.

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 927 (H.B. 783), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:00Z. Source file · JSON

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