> That fine applies if they don't have a system at all no, that's not accurate. quoting from the bill: > A civil penalty imposed under this section for a viol

> That fine applies if they don't have a system at all no, that's not accurate. quoting from the bill: > A civil penalty imposed under this section for a violation of Section 129B.002 or 129B.003 may be in an amount equal to not more than the total, if applicable, of: > (1) $10,000 per day that the entity operates an Internet website in violation of the age verification requirements of this chapter; > (2) $10,000 per instance when the entity retains identifying information in violation of Section 129B.002(b); and > (3) if, because of the entity's violation of the age verification requirements of this chapter, one or more minors accesses sexual material harmful to minors, an additional amount of not more than $250,000. if they don't have a system for age verification, the possible fine is $10k per day. run a website for a year, and then the Texas AG gets around to filing a suit against you? that's a possible 3.65 million fine. the possible $250k is on top of that, if minors access porn on such a website. crucially, the law says the age-verification system used must be "reasonable" which gives prosecutors a significant amount of leeway. does your porn site use Honest Achmed's Age Verification Service? if that is easy to bypass, there's nothing stopping them from arguing in court that you may have implemented age-verification, but you didn't comply with the law because you didn't use a reasonable verification service.