# S.B. No. 1621 (Texas) — effective September 1, 2025

For S.B. No. 1621 (Texas), effective date is September 1, 2025; what it applies to is sexually explicit visual material involving children or computer-generated children created, adapted or modified using an artificial intelligence application, recorded from its source on 2026-09-08.

- **Jurisdiction:** Texas _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Instrument:** S.B. No. 1621 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Effective date:** September 1, 2025 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **What it applies to:** sexually explicit visual material involving children or computer-generated children created, adapted or modified using an artificial intelligence application _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> SECTION 9. 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 hereby certify that S.B. No. 1621 passed the Senate

## Source

- https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB01621F.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/).