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  "attribution": "The Insurance Investigator's Playbook — theclaimsplaybook.net",
  "jurisdiction": "TX",
  "name": "Texas",
  "question": "Does recording a conversation in Texas require one party's consent or all parties' consent?",
  "rule": "one-party",
  "ruleLabel": "One-party consent",
  "commonlyClassifiedAs": "one-party consent",
  "commonLabelIsMisleading": false,
  "summary": "Texas is a one-party consent jurisdiction: a participant in the conversation may record it without telling the others.",
  "nuance": null,
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  "nuanceVerified": false,
  "casesCited": [],
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  "statute": "Tex. Penal Code § 16.02",
  "federalFloor": {
    "statute": "18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(d)",
    "rule": "one-party",
    "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511",
    "note": "Federal law permits recording with one party's consent unless the recording is made to commit a crime or tort. Federal law is the FLOOR; a state may and many do require more. Where an interstate call touches two states with different rules, the safe assumption is the stricter one."
  },
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    "status": "verified-secondary",
    "statusLabel": "Verified against a published statutory source (no machine-readable government copy)",
    "verifiedOn": "2026-09-21",
    "sourceUrl": "https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._penal_code_section_16.02",
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    "consideredStaleAfter": "90 days",
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  "disclaimer": "Reference information, not legal advice. Statutes change and courts read them differently; confirm the current text with the linked primary source and counsel licensed in the jurisdiction before relying on it.",
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    "title": "Texas recording consent law",
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    "citationText": "\"Texas recording consent law\", The Insurance Investigator's Playbook, https://theclaimsplaybook.net/law/recording-consent/TX",
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