Bill Text: TX SB1893 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting the use of certain social media applications and services on devices owned or leased by governmental entities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB1893 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1893-Enrolled.html
 
 
  S.B. No. 1893
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to prohibiting the use of certain social media
  applications and services on devices owned or leased by
  governmental entities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subtitle A, Title 6, Government Code, is amended
  by adding Chapter 620 to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 620.  USE OF CERTAIN SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES
  ON GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY DEVICES PROHIBITED
         Sec. 620.001.  DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
               (1)  "Covered application" means:
                     (A)  the social media service TikTok or any
  successor application or service developed or provided by ByteDance
  Limited or an entity owned by ByteDance Limited; or
                     (B)  a social media application or service
  specified by proclamation of the governor under Section 620.005.
               (2)  "Governmental entity" means:
                     (A)  a department, commission, board, office, or
  other agency that is in the executive or legislative branch of state
  government and that was created by the constitution or a statute,
  including an institution of higher education as defined by Section
  61.003, Education Code;
                     (B)  the supreme court, the court of criminal
  appeals, a court of appeals, a district court, or the Texas Judicial
  Council or another agency in the judicial branch of state
  government; or
                     (C)  a political subdivision of this state,
  including a municipality, county, or special purpose district.
         Sec. 620.002.  DEFINING SECURITY RISK TO THIS STATE.  For
  purposes of this chapter, a social media application or service
  poses a risk to this state if:
               (1)  the provider of the application or service may be
  required by a foreign government, or an entity associated with a
  foreign government, to provide confidential or private personal
  information collected by the provider through the application or
  service to the foreign government or associated entity without
  substantial due process rights or similar legal protections; or
               (2)  the application or service poses a similar risk to
  the security of this state's sensitive information, critical
  infrastructure, or both, as an application or service described by
  Section 620.001(1)(A).
         Sec. 620.003.  PROHIBITION; MODEL POLICY. (a)  Subject to
  Section 620.004, a governmental entity shall adopt a policy
  prohibiting the installation or use of a covered application on any
  device owned or leased by the governmental entity and requiring the
  removal of covered applications from those devices.
         (b)  The Department of Information Resources and the
  Department of Public Safety shall jointly develop a model policy
  for governmental entities to use in developing the policy required
  by Subsection (a).
         Sec. 620.004.  EXCEPTIONS; MITIGATING MEASURES.  (a)  A
  policy adopted under Section 620.003 may provide for the
  installation and use of a covered application to the extent
  necessary for:
               (1)  providing law enforcement; or
               (2)  developing or implementing information security
  measures.
         (b)  A policy allowing the installation and use of a covered
  application under Subsection (a) must require:
               (1)  the use of measures to mitigate risks posed to this
  state during the use of the covered application; and
               (2)  the documentation of those measures.
         Sec. 620.005.  APPLICATIONS IDENTIFIED BY GOVERNOR'S
  PROCLAMATION. The governor by proclamation may identify social
  media applications or services that pose a risk to this state as
  described by Section 620.002.
         Sec. 620.006.  APPLICATION IDENTIFIED BY DEPARTMENT OF
  INFORMATION RESOURCES AND DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. (a)  The
  Department of Information Resources and the Department of Public
  Safety shall jointly identify social media applications or services
  that pose a risk to this state as described by Section 620.002.
         (b)  The Department of Information Resources shall:
               (1)  annually submit a list of applications and
  services identified under Subsection (a) to the governor;
               (2)  publish the list on the department's publicly
  accessible Internet website; and
               (3)  periodically update the list on that website.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than the 60th day after the date the
  Department of Information Resources and the Department of Public
  Safety make available the model policy required by Section
  620.003(b), Government Code, as added by this Act, each
  governmental entity shall adopt the policy required by Section
  620.003(a), Government Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1893 passed the Senate on
  April 18, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0;
  May 16, 2023, Senate refused to concur in House amendments and
  requested appointment of Conference Committee; May 17, 2023, House
  granted request of the Senate; May 27, 2023, Senate adopted
  Conference Committee Report by the following vote:  Yeas 30,
  Nays 1.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1893 passed the House, with
  amendments, on May 9, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 144,
  Nays 0, two present not voting; May 17, 2023, House granted request
  of the Senate for appointment of Conference Committee;
  May 28, 2023, House adopted Conference Committee Report by the
  following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 2, two present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
             Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor
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