Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 12.001 - Definition In this chapter, "virtual currency":
(1) means a digital representation of value that:(A) is used as a medium of exchange, unit of account, or store of value; and(B) is not legal tender, whether or not denominated in legal tender; and(2) does not include: (A) a transaction in which a merchant grants, as part of an affinity or rewards program, value that cannot be taken from or exchanged with the merchant for legal tender, bank credit, or virtual currency; or(B) a digital representation of value issued by or on behalf of a publisher and used solely within an online game, game platform, or family of games sold by the same publisher or offered on the same game platform.Tex. Bus. and Comm. Code § 12.001
Added by Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 739,Sec. 9, eff. 9/1/2021, op. for a transaction entered into on or after the effective date of this Act and applies only to an action, case, or proceeding commenced on or after the effective date of this Act.