On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, Governor of Texas Greg Abbot signed Texas Senate Bill 2420 into law. The bill, known as the App Store Accountability Act, is effective beginning January 1, 2026.

This bill applies to two primary entities: app store owners and software application developers who make their products available to users in Texas (S.B. 2420 (Tx. 2025) ("ASAA")).

Both app store owners and app developers are subject to new requirements regarding age verification, parental consent, data handling, and transparency in app ratings and content disclosures. To comply, businesses that develop and maintain mobile applications may need to implement robust age verification systems, update their user account management processes to accommodate parental affiliations for minors, revise their data

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