Texas data broker registration
Texas: data broker registration, every year on the anniversary of your registration, within the 90 days before it expires, at the Texas Secretary of State.
Who registers
A business that collects, processes or transfers personal data it did not collect directly from the individual, when that is over half its revenue or covers more than 50,000 people in a year. Exempt: public information and inferences from it, GLBA data and entities, FCRA activity to the extent regulated, service providers, affiliates, de-identified and employee data, government. No HIPAA carve-out.
When and what it costs
- First registration
- Before doing business as a data broker in Texas, on the Secretary of State's portal Fee $300.
- Renewal
- Every year on the anniversary of your registration, within the 90 days before it expires, $300.
- Where
- the Texas Secretary of State
- Public notice
- A conspicuous website notice in the Secretary of State's wording that you are a data broker under Texas law, with, since 1 September 2025, how to exercise Chapter 541 rights. File a statement of correction when registered details change.
- If missed
- At least $100 a day of violation plus the unpaid fees for each unregistered year, capped at $10,000 in any 12 months; the Attorney General enforces (Bus. & Com. Code 509.008).
- Rule
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 509 (SB 2121, SB 1343, 2025); 1 TAC 106 (source, read 2026-09-30)
- From 2025-09-01
- The principal-source-of-revenue test was dropped: any business handling third-party personal data above the thresholds registers.
- Also
- The Secretary of State is only the filing officer. The rule wording of the website notice was read on a mirror; check 1 TAC 106.5 before copying it.
How DROP runner handles it
DROP runner runs your California deletion cycle every 45 days. Its calendar also carries every state registry you tick: the first-cycle deadline where a registry is new, the renewal date each year (on your own anniversary where the state works that way), the fee, and a link to the official place to file. Reminders arrive 45, 30, 14, 7 and 1 days ahead. You file and pay yourself.
Other states: California, Connecticut, Oregon, Vermont. Information from the state's own published rules; not legal advice.