1. (a) This section establishes the guidelines required by Texas Government Code § 2054.703(b)(4) as enacted pursuant to Senate Bill 1964 in the Eighty-ninth Regular Session.
2. (b) When a state agency or local government deploys or uses a heightened scrutiny AI system, they must identify the acceptable use cases for such system, identify its limitations, and adopt an acceptable use policy to prevent uses other than those approved by the agency for the heightened scrutiny artificial intelligence system. All employees must be adequately trained on the acceptable use policy.
3. (c) A state agency or local government that deploys or uses a heightened scrutiny AI system shall provide employees or contractors who access, use, or manage the heightened scrutiny AI system with training regarding identified risks and appropriate methods for mitigating those risks.
4. (d) A state agency or local government that contracts with vendors to deploy a heightened scrutiny AI system shall mitigate third party risk by contractually requiring those vendors to implement an AI risk management framework such as that published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology or a comparable standard for heightened scrutiny AI systems.

Source Note:The provisions of this §219.24 adopted to be effective March 18, 2026, 51 TexReg 1610.