TX SB1626

Amends Texas law (H.B. 20) regulating social media platforms by raising the user threshold from 50 million to 65 million active monthly users in the United States for the law to apply

Clarifies that "social media platform" excludes electronic mail, direct messaging, and services primarily providing banking, financial, transportation, sales, or video game services

Exempts platforms' newsfeeds and homepages from regulation when they convey particularized messages, are not common carrier services, or do not primarily transmit users' expression

Creates new statutory damages for users whose expression is censored: $100,000 if the user's own expression was censored, or $1,000 if their ability to receive another person's expression was blocked

Prohibits platforms from using their own commentary to delay, diminish visibility of, or deny equal access to users' expression based on viewpoint

Takes effect September 1, 2025, with new damage provisions applying only to causes of action accruing after that date