Question · Texas TRAIGA
Does Texas require an AI impact assessment?
TRAIGA bans developing or deploying AI with intent to cause specific harms, such as inciting self-harm or unlawful discrimination, rather than imposing audits or impact assessments.
01 / The answer
The short answer
No. TRAIGA does not require impact assessments or risk-management programs. It targets intent: it prohibits developing or deploying AI with the intent to cause listed harms, such as unlawful discrimination, and states that disparate impact alone does not show intent to discriminate. Its affirmative duties are narrow: government agencies must disclose when consumers are interacting with AI, and health care providers must disclose AI use in services or treatment. Only the Attorney General can enforce it, and there is no private right of action.
02 / The rule
What Texas TRAIGA requires
TRAIGA bans developing or deploying AI with intent to cause specific harms, such as inciting self-harm or unlawful discrimination, rather than imposing audits or impact assessments. It also requires government agencies and health care providers to disclose AI use, creates an AI regulatory sandbox and a Texas AI Council, and gives the Attorney General exclusive enforcement.
- 01Government agencies: disclose before or during interaction that a consumer is dealing with AI, clearly, in plain language, without dark patterns.
- 02Health care providers: disclose AI use in a service or treatment by the date it is first provided (emergencies: as soon as possible).
- 03Do not develop or deploy AI intended to incite self-harm, harm to others or criminal activity.
- 04Do not develop or deploy AI with intent to unlawfully discriminate against a protected class; disparate impact alone does not show intent.
03 / Records
Records to keep
- 01Documented intended purpose and deployment context for each AI system
- 02Red-team and adversarial testing records
- 03Mapping of internal controls to the NIST AI RMF Generative AI Profile
- 04Consumer and patient AI-disclosure text with placement records
Optional evidence · where Planisphere fits
Keep a record anyone can check
When your team meets a duty, Planisphere can seal the event it reports as a receipt.
A disclosure shown, a review signed, a model change approved: the event your system reports.
The event becomes a sealed receipt, dated and attributed to whoever is signed in.
Paste the receipt into Verify. No account or key.
A record supports your compliance evidence process. It is not a legal finding or a certification. Systems that call Planisphere's gate API can also hold or refuse an action before it runs.
SOURCES
Go back to the source
Texas Legislature Online
Texas Legislature Online
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