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      S.B. No. 2121         AN ACT   relating to the regulation of certain business entities that act as   data brokers.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 509.001(4), Business & Commerce Code, as   added by Chapter 963 (S.B. 2105), Acts of the 88th Legislature,   Regular Session, 2023, is amended to read as follows:                (4)  "Data broker" means a business entity that   collects, processes, or transfers [ whose principal source of   revenue is derived from the collecting, processing, or transferring   of ] personal data that the business entity did not collect directly   from the individual linked or linkable to the data.          SECTION 2.  Section 509.003(a), Business & Commerce Code, as   added by Chapter 963 (S.B. 2105), Acts of the 88th Legislature,   Regular Session, 2023, is amended to read as follows:          (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), this chapter   applies only to a data broker that, in a 12-month period, derives:                (1)  more than 50 percent of the data broker's revenue   directly from processing or transferring personal data [ that the   data broker did ] not collected by the data broker  [ collect ]   directly from the individuals to whom the data pertains; or                (2)  revenue directly from processing or transferring   the personal data of more than 50,000 individuals [ that the data   broker did ] not collected by the data broker  [ collect ] directly   from the individuals to whom the data pertains.          SECTION 3.  It is the intent of the 89th Legislature, Regular   Session, 2025, that the amendments made by this Act be harmonized   with another Act of the 89th Legislature, Regular Session, 2025,   relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted   codes.          SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.               ______________________________ ______________________________      President of the Senate Speaker of the House                 I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2121 passed the Senate on   April 24, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that   the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 31, 2025, by the   following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.       ______________________________   Secretary of the Senate                I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2121 passed the House, with   amendment, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 131,   Nays 2, one present not voting.       ______________________________   Chief Clerk of the House            Approved:     ______________________________                Date       ______________________________              Governor