Amend HB 581 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 4 of the bill, amending Section 129B.002, Civil Practice and Remedies Code (page 1, line 47), in the recital, strike "Subsection (a-1)" and substitute "Subsections (a-1) and (a-2)".
(2) In SECTION 4 of the bill, in added Section 129B.002(a-1), Civil Practice and Remedies Code (page 1, line 49), strike "A" and substitute "Except as provided by Subsection (a-2), a".
(3) In SECTION 4 of the bill, immediately after added Section 129B.002(a-1), Civil Practice and Remedies Code (page 1, between lines 55 and 56), insert the following:
(a-2) Subsection (a-1) does not apply to a commercial entity that:
(1) includes a prohibition against the generation of artificial sexual material harmful to minors in the entity's terms and conditions or use policies that must be acknowledged before a user is granted access; and
(2) takes affirmative steps to limit the creation of artificial sexual material harmful to minors through technological tools such as training an application or software creating artificial images to identify likely sexual material, providing effective reporting tools, filtering likely sexual material, filtering sexually explicit content generated by artificial intelligence before the material is shown to users, or filtering sexually explicit images from the entity's artificial intelligence dataset before the dataset is used to train the artificial intelligence.
(4) In SECTION 6 of the bill, in added Section 129B.0045, Civil Practice and Remedies Code (page 2, line 16), strike "A" and substitute "(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a".
(5) In SECTION 6 of the bill, immediately after added Section 129B.0045, Civil Practice and Remedies Code (page 2, between lines 24 and 25), insert the following:
(b) This section does not apply to a commercial entity described by Section 129B.002(a-2).
(6) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 129B.005(b), Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) An Internet service provider, or its affiliates or subsidiaries, a search engine, or a cloud service provider may not be held to have violated this chapter solely for providing access or connection to or from a website or other information or content on the Internet or on a facility, system, or network not under that provider's control, including transmission, downloading, intermediate storage, access software, or other services to the extent the provider or search engine is not responsible for the creation of the content that constitutes sexual material harmful to minors or artificial sexual material harmful to minors.