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SB 2420 (2025), App Store Accountability Act
Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 121 (Subtitle C, Title 5)
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In force 9 months, effective 1 January 2026.
An app store age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
As of 2 September 2026.
What this law does
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Requires app store providers to verify a user's age category, link a minor's account to a parent account, and obtain parental consent before a minor can download an app or make an in app purchase, and to share age and consent information with app developers. Violations are deceptive trade practices under Texas consumer protection law.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionYes
Penalty structure
A violation of the App Store Accountability Act is a deceptive trade practice actionable under the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 121, sec. 121.101), which lets the consumer protection division of the Attorney General's office seek, and the trier of fact award, a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation, plus up to an additional $250,000 per violation if the conduct was calculated to acquire or deprive money or property from a consumer 65 or older (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code sec. 17.47(c)).
- Rule
- Per violation only
- As of
- 2 September 2026
- Currency
- USD
- Per violation unit
- Violation
- Per violation amount
- 10,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Texas Attorney General, and enforceable as a deceptive trade practice under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act.
Litigation
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas; Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; Supreme Court of the United States
- Docket
- Students Engaged in Advancing Texas v. Paxton, No. 1:25-cv-01662 (W.D. Tex.), and Computer & Communications Industry Association v. Paxton (W.D. Tex.); Supreme Court emergency applications Nos. 25A1389 and 25A1390
- Posture
- The district court granted preliminary injunctions on December 23, 2025. The Fifth Circuit stayed the injunctions in late May 2026, granting a full stay pending appeal in early June 2026, and the Supreme Court denied the challengers' emergency applications to vacate the stay on July 6, 2026 in unsigned orders with no noted dissents. The law is enforceable while the Fifth Circuit's merits appeal proceeds; the consolidated appeals (Nos. 25-51073 and 26-50001) are calendared for oral argument on August 4, 2026 in New Orleans.
What it reaches
Age threshold
18
Covered services
App marketplaces such as the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, and the app developers that distribute through them.
Obligation class
Age verification, Consent, Disclosure, Security
Verification methods
Device signal, Parental consent
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
official enrolled session law text, Texas Legislature
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