{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-civil-practice-and-remedies-code-98c.004","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 98C.004","heading":"LIABILITY FOR ONLINE IMPERSONATION; EXCEPTION.","body":"(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person is liable to another person injured by the person's online impersonation if:\n(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\n(2) the online impersonation is, to a reasonable person, virtually indistinguishable from an actual person.\n(b) A person is not liable for an online impersonation of which a purpose is satire or parody.\nAdded by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 927 (H.B. 783), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.","path":["CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE","TITLE 4. LIABILITY IN TORT","CHAPTER 98C. LIABILITY FOR ONLINE IMPERSONATION"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.98C.htm#98C.004","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:00Z","sha256":"e309662055c737619025203bfab2649761379a84a736583bcb4e13b44c138c3d","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-civil-practice-and-remedies-code-98c.003","next":"us-tx/tex.-civil-practice-and-remedies-code-98c.005"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}