US state regulation
Texas
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Texas - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 69/100 Top 10%
- Regulations tracked
- 5 Top quartile
- Enacted into law
- 5
- Categories regulated
- 5/5
Follow Texas regulation updates: RSS feed for this state.
Ceiling tracker band. Portal tracker 69/100 sits in the top third of scored states (#3 of 51).
The verdict
Texas is a dense, high-tracker archive: 5 tracked rows and 69/100, with 5 enacted across 5 of 5 policy areas, led by AI Regulation.
- 69/100
- tracker (ceiling tercile)
- 5
- tracked rows (dense tercile)
- 5
- enacted into law
- AI Regulation
- AI-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Texas legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Texas's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 5 Tracked rows in archive
- 5 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 69/100 Portal tracker score
- #10 Of 51 by volume
- #3 Of 51 by tracker score
- Minnesota Nearest volume peer 5 rows
- 5 Of 5 policy areas AI Regulation
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Texas's tracker score vs the tracked state corpus
Ceiling tracker band: Texas is above the peer average for tracked volume and above the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Texas enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 3 in 2025
Policy coverage
Texas enacted mix · AI-LED
AI-led shelf: each card is live from Texas's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Texas regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Texas's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Texas's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
92/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- B 5 tracked
84th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- A 69/100
96th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- A 5 categories
100th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with Texas
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Texas (FULL · MID · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
FULL MID QUIET AI-LED
Minnesota · FULL
Minnesota tracks 5 rows (more by 0 than Texas); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Connecticut · FULL
Connecticut tracks 6 rows (more by 1 than Texas); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Delaware · FULL
Delaware tracks 4 rows (fewer by 1 than Texas); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Virginia · FULL
Virginia tracks 4 rows (fewer by 1 than Texas); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Tennessee (LOWER score pole)
Tennessee sits near Texas on archive volume yet stamps LOWER while this page stamps MID.
AI Regulation hub · AI-LED
Texas's lead category is AI Regulation (1 enacted) under the AI-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in Texas
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Texas state-rule registry · 2025 Texas: 5 tracked · 5 enacted · tracker 69/100 (FULL/MID). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Texas's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.