# H.B. No. 2818 (Texas) — effective September 1, 2025 For H.B. No. 2818 (Texas), effective date is September 1, 2025; what it applies to is the artificial intelligence division within the Department of Information Resources, recorded from its source on 2026-09-08. - **Jurisdiction:** Texas _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_ - **Instrument:** H.B. No. 2818 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_ - **Effective date:** September 1, 2025 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **What it applies to:** the artificial intelligence division within the Department of Information Resources _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_ ## What the source says > SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. ## Where each value comes from This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it. ### Instrument > I certify that H.B. No. 2818 was passed by the House ## Source - https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB02818F.htm Last verified: 2026-09-08. Review by: 2026-10-23. Part of [AI law and regulation effective dates by jurisdiction](https://referencesource.org/ai-regulation-effective-dates/).