The reviewed registration record for online sellers serving Texas consumers, with source, date, and review caveats intact.
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Registration of online retailers selling into Texas
The adopted rules explicitly extend retail registration to online retailers selling consumable hemp products to Texas consumers — selling into Texas from outside the state does not place a seller outside the registration requirement.
[Pending verification] The HempDash compliance team's primary-source verification has not yet been recorded for this statement.
In force. No stay or injunction against the online-retailer registration provision was identified in this review.
Last reviewed
2026-08-14 · HempDash compliance research — primary-source verification pending
Review history and evidence state
This statement was included in the reviewed snapshot on 2026-08-14. No independent compliance team verification receipt is recorded yet, so it remains pending and keeps the caveat shown above.
TexasActive recordVerified
Retail registration for consumable hemp product sellers
The adopted rules require retailers of consumable hemp products to register with DSHS, with a registration fee of $5,000 per retail location under the adopted fee provisions. DSHS separately publishes the amount payable as $5,150 per location for a one-year registration, stating that the $5,150 includes the Texas Online (TOL) fee — so the figure in the rule and the figure at the point of payment are different quantities, and the difference is the surcharge rather than a change to the fee. Three further provisions of §300.502 bear directly on an applicant. Under (b)(7) the application must contain written consent — from the applicant, or from the property owner where the applicant is not the owner — for the department, the Department of Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, and other state or local law enforcement agencies to enter all premises where consumable hemp is manufactured, processed, sold, or delivered, for physical inspection or to confirm compliance with the chapter. Under (d) an initial or renewal application runs on three stated periods: a first period of 45 calendar days from receipt of a completed application, which instead ends on the date the department issues written notice that the application is incomplete — a notice the department must issue within 60 calendar days of receiving an incomplete application, describing the specific information or fee required; a second period of 45 calendar days from receipt of a completed application, ending when the department issues the license or a written notice proposing denial; and a third period of 135 calendar days from the date that incompleteness notice issues, after which, if the applicant has not supplied the requested information or fee, the department considers the application withdrawn. Under (h), where an application is not processed within those periods, the applicant has the right to request in writing, within 30 business days after the end of the second period, full reimbursement of the fee paid; if the department finds good cause does not exist for exceeding the periods the request shall be approved, and the department shall notify the applicant in writing within 30 business days of its decision.
[Verified] Compliance team review receipt: kv-receipt-2026-08-16-fees-r5 Refined by 2 supplemental receipts, which did not change this disposition.
In force. No stay or injunction against the registration requirement was identified in this review.
Last reviewed
2026-09-14 · HempDash compliance research — primary-source verification pending
Review history and evidence state
This statement was included in the reviewed snapshot on 2026-09-14. Independent compliance team verification is recorded by receipt kv-receipt-2026-08-16-fees-r5.
A supplemental receipt refines a record that is already dispositioned. It records something a later pass verified that the original did not reach, and it never changes the status above.
kv-receipt-2026-08-27-fees-tol · 2026-08-27Added the amount payable, which DSHS publishes separately from the rule figure: $5,150 per location for a one-year retail registration, stated to include the Texas Online (TOL) fee. Dual-source within the regulator. The TOL component itself is derived by subtraction and is not a published amount.
kv-receipt-2026-09-14-502-dh-b7 · 2026-09-14Added §300.502(b)(7) written consent to premises entry, (d) the three application processing periods with the 60-day incompleteness notice, and (h) the fee-reimbursement right, each quoted from the Texas Register republication of the adopted text (TRD-202601068). Closes a verification target open since 2026-08-28. Single authoritative publication, read by two extraction paths; no second independent authority was reachable because the Secretary of State TAC viewer moved to a portal that does not serve static rule text.