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Data protection in United States — Texas

Personal data, privacy, cybersecurity duties, processing, and cross-border transfers. Every result links to its stored legal text and available official source evidence.

229 matching statutes

• United States — Texas

  Tax Code § 151.317

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  Gas and electricity are exempt from certain taxes when sold for listed uses, such as residential use and specified industrial, agricultural, and data-center uses.

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• United States — Texas

  Human Resources Code § 48.202

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  In an investigation, the department or state agency must determine whether a person needs protective services and related support, and may have to place the person on a waiting list and keep the case open until abuse, neglect, or exploitation is resolved if needed services are unavailable.

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• United States — Texas

  Government Code § 421.002

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  The governor must direct homeland security in Texas and develop a statewide homeland security strategy.

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• United States — Texas

  Penal Code § 33.01

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  This section defines terms used in the chapter, including access, computer, data, effective consent, owner, property, and critical infrastructure facility.

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• United States — Texas

  Education Code § 51.291

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  This section makes certain identities and incident information confidential, with limited disclosure exceptions, and requires providers to share nonidentifying aggregate data with the institution's Title IX coordinator.

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• United States — Texas

  Business & Commerce Code § 541.001

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  This section defines key terms used in the chapter, including consumer, controller, personal data, processing, consent, sale of personal data, targeted advertising, and several health- and privacy-related terms.

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  Human Resources Code § 243.008

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  The department must check and record foster care history for children in its care, and the Department of Family and Protective Services must provide similar information to a local juvenile probation department within 14 days of a request. The department must also produce a public report every even-numbered year.

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• United States — Texas

  Government Code § 552.164

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  Information held by a governmental body about fraud detection and deterrence measures is confidential and exempt from Section 552.021.

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• United States — Texas

  Education Code § 61.0909

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  The board and the department must make an information-sharing memorandum, with annual demographic data from the department and aggregate outcomes data from the board, and any use of individual-student information by a research center must be approved by the department.

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  Family Code § 264.509

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  A review team may request records about a deceased child, and the custodian and the Department of State Health Services must provide specified records and electronic access.

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• United States — Texas

  Health and Safety Code § 47.008

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  The system must follow confidentiality rules; the executive commissioner must issue patient-privacy guidelines and require parental/guardian consent before identifying information is shared; parents or guardians may withdraw information at any time.

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• United States — Texas

  Education Code § 29.161

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  The State Center for Early Childhood Development must develop a voluntary school readiness certification system, and the agency must help run it and protect student data.

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