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Texas SenateSB 1626

Relating to censorship of or certain other interference with digital expression, including expression on social media platforms or through electronic mail messages

Passed 22–9Crossed party lines

What it does: Lets a social media user who wins a suit over censorship by a large platform recover attorney's fees and actual or statutory damages, raises the covered-platform threshold from 50 million to 65 million U.S. users, and excludes newsfeeds, a platform's own homepage and non-common-carrier services. (AI-written summary of the bill; the official record shows the exact version voted)

Question before the chamber: Final passage (third reading)

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The tally

Yes 22 · No 9 · Not voting 0

Bar: green = yes, brown = no, striped = not voting.

Votes by party
PartyYesNoNot voting
Democrats290
Republicans2000

Most Democrats voted no; most Republicans voted yes. 2 members voted against their party’s majority.

Voted against their party’s majority

The full roll (31)

“Not voting” is a recorded non-vote, not a reason for the absence. Parties come from public rosters; how we count.