Texas SB 17 · Status
What is in force, and what is not.
This page states the status of the Texas SB 17 rulemaking, the litigation, and the designated-country list, each against a primary source and each with the date somebody last checked it. Where nobody has checked, the page says so and sends you to the source instead.
The statute is in force. The Attorney General's Chapter 67 rules, proposed on March 27, 2026, are not adopted. Litigation and the designated-country list both move without notice, so this page states what a primary source shows on a named date and links the source rather than summarising it.
Is Texas SB 17 in force?
Yes, and it has been since September 1, 2025. The rulemaking below is a separate question: the prohibition, the enforcement path and the penalties are in the statute and do not wait on a rule.
SB 17 took effect September 1, 2025. SECTION 6 of the Act applies it only to a purchase or acquisition on or after that date; an acquisition before it stays under the prior law.
S.B. 17, 89th Legislature, Regular Session, enrolled text, SECTIONS 6 and 8 · Verified September 10, 2026
Are the Chapter 67 rules adopted?
No. They were proposed on March 27, 2026 and no adoption notice has followed. The proposal notice carries an earliest possible date of adoption, which is a standard field on every proposed-rule notice in Texas, and commentary has read that field as though it were an effective date. It is not one.
Proposed at 51 TexReg 1937 on 2026-03-27. The OAG rules table shows no adoption entry as of 2026-09-07. Some commentary reports the rules as effective; ParcelClear has not found an adoption notice in the Texas Register.
Texas OAG, proposed and adopted rules · Verified September 7, 2026
Is anyone challenging SB 17 in court?
Litigation status is read off the docket rather than repeated from memory here.
Checking. Last confirmed status: see source. Texas OAG, proposed and adopted rules
Which countries are designated?
Section 5.251(3) prints no list. A designated country is one the United States Director of National Intelligence identified as posing a risk to national security in at least one of the three most recent Annual Threat Assessments of the U.S. Intelligence Community, or one the governor designates under Section 5.254. Section 5.254(c) makes a designation, or its removal, apply only to an acquisition on or after the date the governor acts, so the question on any file is which list was in force on the closing date.
Checking. Last confirmed status: see source. S.B. 17, 89th Legislature, Regular Session, enrolled text, sec. 5.251(3)
What changes if the rules are adopted?
ParcelClear cuts a new rule set version, and every file keeps the version that evaluated it. That is the point of pinning a version to a file: a record made under one set of rules stays readable as a record made under that set of rules, after a newer set ships.
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Last verified September 10, 2026