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Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 98C.004

LIABILITY FOR ONLINE IMPERSONATION; EXCEPTION

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

(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.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.