# S.B. No. 441 (Texas) — effective September 1, 2025

For S.B. No. 441 (Texas), effective date is September 1, 2025; what it applies to is criminal and civil liability for sexually explicit deep fake media and artificial intimate visual material, and duties on artificial intelligence applications and payment processors, recorded from its source on 2026-09-08.

- **Jurisdiction:** Texas _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Instrument:** S.B. No. 441 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Effective date:** September 1, 2025 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **What it applies to:** criminal and civil liability for sexually explicit deep fake media and artificial intimate visual material, and duties on artificial intelligence applications and payment processors _(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. 441 passed the Senate

## Source

- https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00441F.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/).