Bill Text: TX SB1847 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting contracts or other agreements with certain foreign-owned companies in connection with critical infrastructure in this state and the use of certain technology purchased or leased from those companies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-03-04 - Filed [SB1847 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB1847-Introduced.html
| 89R4469 JCG-F | ||
| By: Hughes | S.B. No. 1847 | |
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| relating to prohibiting contracts or other agreements with certain | ||
| foreign-owned companies in connection with critical infrastructure | ||
| in this state and the use of certain technology purchased or leased | ||
| from those companies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 2275, Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 2275. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTS WITH CERTAIN FOREIGN-OWNED | ||
| COMPANIES IN CONNECTION WITH CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE USE OF | ||
| CERTAIN TECHNOLOGIES PURCHASED OR LEASED FROM THOSE COMPANIES | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 2275.0101, Government Code, is amended | ||
| by amending Subdivisions (1) and (2) and adding Subdivisions (1-a), | ||
| (7), and (8) to read as follows: | ||
| (1) "Communication infrastructure system" includes: | ||
| (A) a computer hardware device that converts data | ||
| signals of one kind into another for the purpose of transmitting the | ||
| data over telecommunications circuits, also known as a modem; and | ||
| (B) a computer hardware device that mediates the | ||
| transmission routes of data packets over an electronic | ||
| communications network, also known as a router. | ||
| (1-a) "Company" means a sole proprietorship, | ||
| organization, association, corporation, partnership, joint | ||
| venture, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, or | ||
| limited liability company, including a wholly owned subsidiary, | ||
| majority-owned subsidiary, parent company, or affiliate of those | ||
| entities or business associations, that exists to make a profit. | ||
| (2) "Critical infrastructure" means a communication | ||
| infrastructure system, cybersecurity system, electric grid, | ||
| hazardous waste treatment system, remote sensing technology, | ||
| transportation infrastructure system, or water treatment facility. | ||
| (7) "Remote sensing technology" means a remote sensing | ||
| method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure | ||
| variable distances for the purpose of developing a distance map of | ||
| the objects from which the light is reflected. The term includes the | ||
| technology known as LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging. | ||
| (8) "Transportation infrastructure system" means a | ||
| camera system used in enforcing the traffic laws of this state, | ||
| including a school bus infraction detection system, speed detection | ||
| system, or other traffic infraction detector. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 2275.0103, Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) The governor shall consider designating as a threat to | ||
| critical infrastructure under Subsection (a) any country or person | ||
| designated as a foreign adversary by the United States secretary of | ||
| commerce, or the secretary's designee, under 15 C.F.R. Section | ||
| 791.4. | ||
| SECTION 4. Effective July 1, 2026, Chapter 2275, Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 2275.0104 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2275.0104. USE OF CERTAIN CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE | ||
| PROHIBITED. A governmental entity may not use remote sensing | ||
| technology or a transportation infrastructure system purchased or | ||
| leased from a company described by Section 2275.0102(a)(2). | ||
| SECTION 5. With respect to a contract or other agreement | ||
| relating to critical infrastructure, the changes in law made by | ||
| this Act to Section 2275.0101, Government Code, apply only to a | ||
| contract or other agreement entered into on or after the effective | ||
| date of this Act. A contract or agreement entered into before the | ||
| effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
| date the contract or agreement was entered into, and that law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 6. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
