Bill Text: TX HB3101 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the duties of social media companies regarding prostitution and trafficking of persons; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-19 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB3101 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3101-Introduced.html
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| By: Campos | H.B. No. 3101 | |
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| relating to the duties of social media companies regarding | ||
| prostitution and trafficking of persons; creating a criminal | ||
| offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Title 99, Business & Commerce Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Chapter 2005 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 2005. DUTIES OF SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY REGARDING | ||
| PROSTITUTION AND TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS | ||
| Sec. 2005.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Social media company" means a business entity | ||
| that provides or operates a social media website. | ||
| (2) "Social media website" means an interactive | ||
| Internet website or application that enables multiple users to | ||
| communicate with other users by posting, creating, sharing, or | ||
| viewing content, including instant messages, blogs, information, | ||
| comments, videos, and images. The term includes Facebook, | ||
| Instagram, and Twitter. | ||
| Sec. 2005.002. PROSTITUTION AND TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS ON | ||
| SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES. (a) A social media company may not allow a | ||
| person to use the company's social media website for engaging in | ||
| conduct that constitutes an offense under Chapter 20A, Penal Code, | ||
| or Subchapter A, Chapter 43, Penal Code. | ||
| (b) A social media company that discovers a person is using | ||
| the company's social media website to engage in conduct described | ||
| by Subsection (a) shall: | ||
| (1) remove the offending content; and | ||
| (2) either: | ||
| (A) suspend the account that posted the content; | ||
| or | ||
| (B) issue a warning to the account holder that | ||
| posted the content. | ||
| (c) A social media company commits an offense if the company | ||
| violates this section. An offense under this subsection is a Class | ||
| A misdemeanor except that the offense is a state jail felony if the | ||
| conduct is committed intentionally or knowingly. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
