HB1465

HB1465 expands the location-based part of Texas’s invasive visual recording offense. Instead of naming only bathrooms and changing rooms, the law covers a place where a reasonable person would believe they could undress privately without being photographed, recorded, broadcast or transmitted. Bathrooms, bedrooms and changing rooms are expressly included, but the definition is not limited to that list. Final law

The offense still requires lack of the other person’s consent and intent to invade that person’s privacy. It also covers knowingly promoting the qualifying images or recordings. The separate provision protecting intimate areas from recording when they are reasonably expected not to be publicly visible remains. This is not a blanket ban on every photograph taken indoors. Existing law also says a posted recording notice alone is insufficient to establish consent for the protected-place provision. Penal Code 21.15

The offense remains a state-jail felony, ordinarily punishable by 180 days–two years and a possible fine up to $10,000, subject to applicable enhancement rules. HB1465 expands its reach and consequences rather than increasing that base penalty category. Penalty framework

The act adds invasive visual recording to reportable convictions/adjudications for sex-offender registration, including qualifying deferred adjudications and juvenile adjudications. Adding it to the list also affects linked provisions for specified attempts, conspiracies, solicitations, burglaries and substantially similar out-of-state offenses; their additional statutory conditions still apply.

Registration is not automatically for life merely because of this addition. For an ordinary adult conviction or deferred adjudication falling under Article 62.101(c), the period generally extends ten years beyond the latest applicable release, discharge or dismissal-and-discharge date—not simply ten years from conviction. Juvenile dispositions and other registration grounds or relief provisions can change the result. Registration law, including Articles 62.001, 62.051, 62.101 and juvenile provisions

The act took effect September 1, 2025 and applies only to offenses committed on or after that date. If any element occurred before then, prior law governs. The act does not automatically impose its new registration consequence on every older recording conviction.