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Alabama
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H 489
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Public K-12 Education
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Failed - Adjourned
|
Requires course on risks and safety of social media, prohibits student access to social media through local school board internet.
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Alabama
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HJR 232
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Protecting Children from Internet Pornography
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Failed - Adjourned
|
Creates the Interim Study Commission on Protecting Children from Internet Pornography.
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Alaska
|
None
|
|
|
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Arizona
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S 1343
|
Digital and Media Instruction
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Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to Arizona Department of Education; relates to digital and media instruction.
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|
Arizona
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S 1503
|
Explicit Content and Age Verification
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Provides that a commercial entity that intentionally or knowingly publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material shall verify that any person attempting to access material harmful to minors is at least a specified age; provides that verification may be made either using a commercially available database for the purposes of verification and through any other commercially reasonable method of verification.
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Arkansas
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S 66
|
Distribution of Harmful Material Act
|
Enacted
|
Creates the Protection of Minors from Distribution of Harmful Material Act; establishes liability for the publication or distribution of material harmful to minors on the internet; imposes duties on publishers and distributors of material harmful to minors; requires reasonable age verification; provides for individual rights of action; allows for attorney’s fees, court costs and punitive damages.
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Arkansas
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S 396
|
Social Media Safety Act
|
Enacted
|
Creates the Social Media Safety Act; requires age verification for use of social media; clarifies liability for failure to perform age verification for use of social media and illegal retention of data; requires parental consent; relates to liability for social media companies.
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California
|
A 787
|
Pupil Instruction: Digital Citizenship and Media
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Pending
|
Requires, on or before specified date, the superintendent of public instruction to survey teacher librarians, principals and technology directors to understand how they are currently integrating digital citizenship and media literacy education into their curriculum. Requires the superintendent to convene and consult with an advisory committee consisting of specified representatives to develop best practices and recommendations for instruction in digital citizenship and media literacy.
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|
California
|
A 836
|
Social Media Platform: First Amendment Forum
|
Pending
|
Declares that, notwithstanding any law, a social media platform, as defined, shall be considered a traditional First Amendment forum for those purposes, as specified. Requires a social media platform located in the state to develop a policy or mechanism to address content or communications that constitute unprotected speech, including obscenity, incitement of imminent lawless action, and true threats, or that purport to state factual information that is demonstrably false.
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|
California
|
A 873
|
Pupil Instruction: Media Literacy: Curriculum Framework
|
Pending
|
Requires the Instructional Quality Commission to consider incorporating the Model Library Standards into the next revision of the English Language Arts/English Language Development (ELA/ELD) curriculum framework after specified date, and to also consider incorporating media literacy content at each grade level.
|
|
California
|
A 955
|
Controlled Substances
|
Pending
|
Makes the sale of fentanyl on a social media platform in the state punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a specified period of time.
|
|
California
|
A 1027
|
Social Media Platforms: Drug Safety Policies
|
Pending
|
Requires a social media platform to create and post a policy statement regarding the use of the platform to illegally distribute controlled substances. Requires the statement to include a general description of the policy on the retention of electronic communication information and policies and procedures governing when a platform proactively shares information pertaining to distribution of a controlled substance. Specifies that this does not alter the rights or obligations established in any other law.
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|
California
|
A 1282
|
Mental Health: Impacts of Social Media
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Pending
|
Requires the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission to explore, among other things, the persons and populations that use social media and the negative mental health risks associated with social media and artificial intelligence. Requires the commission to report to specified policy committees of the Legislature a statewide strategy to understand, communicate and mitigate mental health risks associated with the use of social media by children and youth.
|
|
California
|
A 1394
|
Commercial Sexual Exploitation: Child Sexual Abuse
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Pending
|
Provides that the California Consumer Privacy Act grants a consumer the right to request that a business delete personal information about the consumer that the business has collected from the consumer. Requires a social media platform to permanently block the instance of reported material and make reasonable efforts to remove and block other instances of the same material from being viewable on the platform if there is a reasonable basis to believe that the material is child sexual abuse material.
|
|
California
|
A 1501
|
Business Regulations: Sexually Explicit Material
|
Pending
|
Requires a commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes sexually explicit material on the internet from a sexually explicit website to use an age verification method that prevents minors from accessing sexually explicit material. Makes a commercial entity that violates these provisions liable to the parent or legal guardian of a minor who accessed the sexually explicit material.
|
|
California
|
S 60
|
Social Media Platforms: Controlled Substances
|
Pending
|
Provides that existing law authorizes a person who is the target of a violent post to seek an order requiring the social media platform to remove the violent post and any related violent post the court determines shall be removed in the interests of justice. Authorizes a person to seek an order requiring a social media platform to remove content that includes an offer to transport, import into this state, sell, furnish, administer or give away a controlled substance in violation of specified law.
|
|
California
|
S 287
|
Features That Harm Child Users: Civil Penalty
|
Pending
|
Prohibits a social media platform from using a design, algorithm or feature that the platform knows, or which by the exercise of reasonable care should have known, causes child users, as defined to do any of certain things, including experience addiction to the social media platform. Subjects a social media platform that knowingly and willfully violates these provisions to a civil penalty and an award of litigation costs and attorney’s fees in an action brought only by certain public attorneys.
|
|
California
|
S 680
|
Features That Harm Child Users: Civil Penalty
|
Pending
|
Relates to the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act. Provides that a social media platform is not in violation if the platform instituted and maintained a program of at least quarterly audits of its designs, algorithms and features that have the potential to cause violations, and the social media platform corrected, within a specified number of days of the completion of the audit, any design, algorithm or feature discovered by the audit to present more than a de minimis risk of a violation.
|
|
California
|
S 764
|
Social Media Platforms: Minor Users: Civil Penalties
|
Pending
|
Prohibits a social media platform from adopting or implementing a policy or practice related to the targeting of content to minors that prioritizes user engagement of minor users with the platform over the safety, health and well-being of the minor users if the platform knows or should know that prioritizing the user engagement of minor users with the platform over the safety, health and well-being of the minor users has caused harm to minor users or it is reasonably foreseeable that it will cause harm.
|
|
California
|
S 845
|
Let Parents Choose Protection Act of 2023
|
Pending
|
Requires large social media platform providers to create, maintain and make available to specified third-party safety software providers a set of third party-accessible application programming interfaces to allow a third-party safety software provider, upon authorization by a child or a parent or legal guardian of a child, to monitor a child’s online interactions, content, and account settings and initiate secure transfers of the child’s user data for these purposes.
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|
Colorado
|
None
|
|
|
|
|
Connecticut
|
H 5025
|
Social Media Accounts
|
Failed
|
Concerns minors and social media accounts; requires a social media company to obtain consent from a minor’s parent or guardian before allowing the minor to establish a social media account if the minor is younger than 16 years of age.
|
|
Connecticut
|
H 6253
|
Age-Appropriate Design Code
|
Failed
|
Adopts a Connecticut Age-Appropriate Design Code that creates privacy and safety obligations for providers of online products and services accessed by children.
|
|
Connecticut
|
H 6393
|
Data Privacy Protections for Minors
|
Failed
|
Establishes additional data privacy protections for minors.
|
|
Connecticut
|
S 25
|
Safe Social Media Awareness Weekend
|
Failed
|
Educates students about the safe and responsible use of social media and assists families in developing plans for healthy activities during summer vacation.
|
|
Connecticut
|
S 395
|
Social Media and Parental Consent
|
Failed
|
Requires an internet operator to obtain parental consent before allowing a child under 16 years of age to open a social media account with the operator.
|
|
Connecticut
|
S 397
|
Cyberbullying
|
Failed
|
Establishes additional protections against cyberbullying on social media platforms.
|
|
Connecticut
|
S 405
|
Digital and Social Media Platforms
|
Failed
|
Imposes additional transparency requirements on digital and social media platforms, provides additional privacy protections to persons who use such platforms and ensure accuracy in journalism, and provides for verification of journalists and journalism, on such platforms.
|
|
Connecticut
|
S 654
|
Continuation of the Social Media Impact Study
|
Failed
|
Funds the second year of the Social Media Impact Study.
|
|
Connecticut
|
S 791
|
Take a Break From Social Media Day
|
Failed
|
Designates Take a Break from Social Media Day.
|
|
Delaware
|
None
|
|
|
|
|
District of Columbia
|
None
|
|
|
|
|
Florida
|
H 379
|
Student Use of Social Media Platforms
|
Enacted
|
Relates to technology in K-12 public schools; requires each district school board to adopt an internet safety policy for student access to the internet provided by the school district; provides requirements; requires each school district to prohibit and prevent student access to social media through internet access provided by the school district; provides an exception; prohibits the use of certain platforms on district-owned devices and through internet access provided by the school district.
|
|
Florida
|
H 591
|
Social Media Protection for Minors
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to social media protection for minors; requires social media platforms to disclose specified information and provide specified resources, measures and disclaimers; prohibits social media platforms that fail to meet requirements from accepting new accounts from minors; requires Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to enforce specified provision and implement specified measures; provides fine for violations.
|
|
Florida
|
H 1463
|
Childhood Mental Health Safety and Welfare
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to childhood mental health, safety and welfare; revises array of services offered by child and adolescent mental health system of care; requires specified professionals to complete course on technology addiction and pornography addiction; requires warning label be affixed to packaging of certain digital devices; requires commercial entity to verify age of individuals attempting to access certain material online; prohibits entity from retaining personal identifying information; revises definition.
|
|
Florida
|
H 1547
|
Technology Transparency
|
Failed
|
Prohibits officers or salaried employees of governmental entities from using their positions or state resources to make certain requests of social media platforms; prohibits governmental entities from initiating or maintaining certain agreements or working relationships with social media platforms; provides exceptions; prohibits controller from collecting certain consumer information.
|
|
Florida
|
S 52
|
Required Instruction in Public Schools
|
Failed
|
Requires members of the instructional staff of public schools to provide instruction on social medial safety; defines the term social media; requires the Department of Education to make social media safety instructional material available online.
|
|
Florida
|
S 262
|
Technology Transparency
|
Enacted
|
Prohibits officers or salaried employees of governmental entities from using their positions or state resources to make certain requests of social media platforms; prohibits governmental entities from initiating or maintaining agreements or working relationships with social media platforms under a specified circumstance; provides exceptions; prohibits certain conduct by an online platform that provides online services, products, games or features likely to be predominantly accessed by children.
|
|
Florida
|
S 472
|
Protection of Exploited Persons
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to protection of exploited persons.
|
|
Florida
|
S 792
|
Social Media Protection for Minors
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Requires social media platforms to disclose specified information and provide specified resources, measures and disclaimers; requires the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, subject to legislative appropriation, to enforce specified provisions and implement specified measures; provides a fine for violations.
|
|
Florida
|
S 1620
|
Childhood Mental Health Safety and Welfare
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Revises the array of services offered by the child and adolescent mental health system of care; requires specified mental health care professionals to complete a course on technology addiction and pornography addiction by a specified date; requires that a warning label be affixed to the packaging of certain digital devices.
|
|
Georgia
|
H 338
|
Student Technology Protection Act
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Amends the Quality Basic Education Act, so as to provide for the inclusion of methods for the promotion of the safe and appropriate use of technology and responsible digital citizenship in the comprehensive character education program; revises requirements for internet safety polices in public schools; requires local boards of education and governing bodies of charter schools to annually submit acceptable-use policies and technology protection measures for review by the State Board of Education.
|
|
Guam
|
None
|
|
|
|
|
Hawaii
|
H 79
|
Standard Based Media Literacy Curriculum
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Provides that when developing a standards-based curriculum and implementing it in a school or complex, at the minimum, the curriculum shall meet specified requirements; provides that school complexes shall be authorized to incorporate media literacy into standards-based curriculum as appropriate, including content that prevents the negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination and online hate speech.
|
|
Hawaii
|
S 914
|
Schools Media Literacy Curriculum
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in its standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination and online hate speech.
|
|
Idaho
|
None
|
|
|
|
|
Illinois
|
H 1522
|
Study Article of the School Code
|
Pending
|
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code; provides that, beginning Jan. 1, 2024, and at least once every three years thereafter, the State Board of Education shall review and submit a report to the General Assembly of recommended revisions to the internet safety education curriculum provisions to ensure the internet safety education curriculum aligns with current best practices and reflects current technology and customary uses of the internet.
|
|
Illinois
|
H 2970
|
Criminal Code
|
Pending
|
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012; creates the offense of unlawful publication of criminal activity; provides that a person commits the offense when he or she knowingly makes a video record or live video of a crime while the crime is being committed and transmits or uploads the video record or live video of the crime to a social media site; provides that a person who commits unlawful publication of criminal activity shall be sentenced to the same penalty as the penalty for the crime being transmitted.
|
|
Illinois
|
H 3880
|
Childrens Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment
|
Pending
|
Creates the Children’s Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment Act; provides that a business that provides an online service, product or feature likely to be accessed by children shall take specified actions, including completing a data protection impact assessment for any online service, product or feature likely to be accessed by children.
|
|
Illinois
|
S 1413
|
Pharmaceuticals on Social Media Act
|
Pending
|
Creates the Sale of Pharmaceuticals on Social Media Act; provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, no individual shall sell or advertise the sale of a pharmaceutical on social media unless the individual has completed a verification process with specified requirements.
|
|
Illinois
|
S 1739
|
Minor Online Data Privacy Act
|
Pending
|
Creates the Minor Online Data Privacy Act; contains only a short title provision.
|
|
Illinois
|
SR 249
|
Minors and Social Media Harmful Algorithms
|
Adopted
|
Urges the federal government to uphold its duty to create regulations that promote the well-being of minors and protect them from negative and harmful social media algorithms.
|
|
Indiana
|
S 142
|
Internet Safety Curricula for Schools
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Provides that a school corporation may include instruction regarding internet safety in the school corporation’s curriculum; requires the Department of Education to develop, not later than the specified date, age-appropriate curricula in internet safety for use at multiple grade levels and specifies topics that must be included in the curricula.
|
|
Iowa
|
H 489
|
Civil Liability for Material Harmful to Minors
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Relates to civil liability for commercial entities who publish or distribute material harmful to minors on the internet; provides penalties.
|
|
Iowa
|
H 526
|
Social Media Users
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Relates to social media users under the specified age; makes penalties applicable; includes applicability provisions.
|
|
Iowa
|
H 712
|
Social Media Data Collection Regarding Children
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Relates to social media data collection regarding children under 18 years of age; provides civil penalties; includes applicability provisions.
|
|
Kansas
|
S 222
|
Online Platforms and Removal of Liability Protections
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Relates to removing liability protections from online platforms and requiring certain wireless communication devices to have a default setting notifying parents of application downloads.
|
|
Kentucky
|
H 476
|
Protection of Minors
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Defines terms; establishes a cause of action against any commercial entity that publishes matter harmful to minors on the internet without obtaining age verification; requires removal of personal data following review for access; establishes civil penalties for violations.
|
|
Louisiana
|
H 61
|
Contracts
|
Enacted
|
Relates to contracts with minors, relates to interactive computer services, provides for consent by a legal representative, provides for exceptions, provides for nullity, provides for definitions, provides for an effective date.
|
|
Louisiana
|
H 77
|
Materials Harmful to Minors
|
Enacted
|
Relates to liability for publishers and distributors of material harmful to minors; provides for the investigation and pursuit of actions by the attorney general; provides for civil penalties for failure to perform age verification; provides for attorney fees and court costs; provides for exceptions; provides for definitions.
|
|
Louisiana
|
S 162
|
Commercial Regulations
|
Enacted
|
Creates the Secure Online Child Interaction and Age Limitation Act.
|
|
Maine
|
None
|
|
|
|
|
Maryland
|
H 254
|
Social Media Regulation of Minors Accounts
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Regulates children’s social media accounts on large social media platforms in the state; requires large social media platforms to identify all public social media accounts created or operated by unauthorized minors and delete all associated user data; penalizes a large social media platform that violates the Act with a specified amount of fine per violation to be deposited in the Digital Citizenship Fund.
|
|
Maryland
|
H 711
|
Social Networks Public Service Advertisements and Fees
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Requires certain social networks to dedicate at least 2% of advertisements on their platforms to certain public service announcements; requires certain social networks to pay a certain 911 social network fee; requires the comptroller to perform certain duties relating to the collection of the 911 social network fee.
|
|
Maryland
|
S 799
|
Public Schools Cyber Safety Guide
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Requires the state Department of Education, the Behavioral Health Administration within the State Department of Health, the Maryland Center for School Safety, and the Department of Information Technology jointly to develop and publish a cyber safety guide to be made available in public schools beginning in the 2024-2025 school year; requires the cyber safety guide to be developed in consultation with professionals who specialize in child development and child psychology.
|
|
Massachusetts
|
H 80
|
Internet Privacy Rights for Children
|
Pending
|
Relates to internet privacy rights for children.
|
|
Massachusetts
|
H 560
|
Media Literacy in Schools
|
Pending
|
Relates to media literacy in schools.
|
|
Massachusetts
|
H 1986
|
Social Media Safety
|
Pending
|
Relates to the investigation by a special commission to promote safe social media use, identify best practices for social media platforms to safeguard children’s mental health, and develop guidelines for safe social media use.
|
|
Michigan
|
H 4414
|
Data Security
|
Pending
|
Provides department to create resources concerning digital literacy and cyber safety on public website.
|
|
Minnesota
|
H 192
|
Education Finance
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Promotes digital well-being education and training for the health, mental well-being and learning of all Minnesota students as it relates to the use of digital media; appropriates money for a Minnesota-based organization that collaborates with communities to promote digital well-being.
|
|
Minnesota
|
H 1503
|
Consumer Protection
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Prohibits certain social media algorithms that target children; prohibits from using a social media algorithm to target user-generated content at an account holder who is under the age of 18.
|
|
Minnesota
|
H 2257
|
Minnesota Age-Appropriate Design Code Act
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Provides that a business that develops and provides online services, products or features that children are likely to access must consider the best interests of children when designing, developing and providing that online service, product or feature; provides for civil penalties.
|
|
Minnesota
|
S 163
|
Education Finance
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Promotes digital well-being education and training for the health, mental well-being and learning of all Minnesota students as it relates to the use of digital media; appropriates money for a Minnesota-based organization that collaborates with communities to promote digital well-being.
|
|
Minnesota
|
S 2101
|
Consumer Protection
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Prohibits certain social media algorithms that target children.
|
|
Minnesota
|
S 2744
|
Biennial Budget for the Department of Commerce
|
Enacted
|
Establishes a biennial budget for Department of Commerce and related activities; adds and modifies various provisions governing health, property, life, homeowners and automobile insurance; regulates financial institutions; modifies provisions governing financial institutions; provides for certain consumer protections and privacy; establishes civil and criminal penalties; appropriates funds.
|
|
Minnesota
|
S 2810
|
Consumer Data Privacy
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Creates the Minnesota Age-Appropriate Design Code Act; places obligations on certain businesses regarding children’s consumer information; provides for enforcement by the attorney general; provides that a business that develops and provides online services, products or features that children are likely to access must consider the best interests of children when designing, developing and providing that online service, product or feature.
|
|
Mississippi
|
H 1091
|
Material Harmful to Minors on the Internet
|
Failed
|
Requires a commercial entity that publishes material harmful to minors on the internet to be held civilly liable whenever the entity fails to perform reasonable age verification methods on persons seeking access to the material; prohibits a commercial entity from retaining identifying information of persons seeking access to the material; declares legislative findings; defines certain terms.
|
|
Mississippi
|
H 1382
|
Social Media Company Community Standards
|
Failed
|
Requires a court of original jurisdiction to issue an injunction when a plaintiff demonstrates the violation of a social media company’s community standards or policies by a defendant’s communications on the social media company’s platform; authorizes the court of original jurisdiction to enjoin the defendant, any social media company that distributes, hosts or disseminates the defendant’s communication, or any corporate sponsor of the defendant; authorizes the court of original jurisdiction to consider filing criminal charges related to the communications to be enjoined as a factor in determining whether the defendant has violated a social media company’s community standards or policies; provides that a criminal conviction related to the communications that are the subject of the petition shall be sufficient evidence to merit the issuance of a permanent injunction under this section; amends section 97-45-15, Mississippi Code of 1972, to define the term “harass” and for related purposes.
|
|
Mississippi
|
S 2346
|
Pornographic Media Exposure to Children
|
Enacted
|
Regulates pornographic media exposure to children; provides the legislative intent; provides definitions; requires commercial entities that provide such content to have age verification systems; provides liability for those commercial entities that do not provide an age verification.
|
|
Mississippi
|
S 2886
|
Material Harmful to Minors
|
Failed
|
Requires any commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material shall be held liable if the entity fails to perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material; states legislative intent and findings; defines terms; provides that this act shall not apply to bona fide news.
|
|
Mississippi
|
SCR 562
|
Walker Montgomery National Catfishing Awareness Month
|
Adopted
|
Designates October 2023 as Walker Montgomery National Catfishing Awareness Month in the state to bring attention to the victims of catfishing on social media and to direct the state board of mental health to develop recommendations to the legislature.
|
|
Missouri
|
H 492
|
Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Act
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Establishes the Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Act.
|
|
Missouri
|
H 1249
|
Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Act
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Establishes the Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Act.
|
|
Missouri
|
S 678
|
Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Act
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Establishes the Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Act, which requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to establish the Media Literacy and Critical Thinking pilot program.
|
|
Montana
|
HJR 26
|
Regulation of Social Networking Services
|
Failed
|
Requests an interim study of the ability for the state to regulate social networking services; requires that the final results of the study be reported to the 69th legislature; reviews the current powers of the Montana Department of Justice to enforce penalties on federally regulated entities.
|
|
Montana
|
S 419
|
TikTok in State
|
Enacted
|
Bans TikTok in the state; prohibits an internet service provider from allowing the operation of TikTok in the state; prohibits a mobile application store from offering the TikTok application to state users; provides for penalties; provides for enforcement authority; provides definitions; provides for contingent voidness.
|
|
Montana
|
S 544
|
Internet Laws Related to Material Harmful to Minors
|
Enacted
|
Provides for liability for the publishing or distribution of material harmful to minors on the internet; provides for reasonable age verification; provides for individual rights of action; provides for attorney fees, court costs and punitive damages; provides for exceptions, requiring a report by the Department of Justice for enforcement activity; provides for a fee; provides definitions.
|
|
Nebraska
|
L 106
|
Digital Grooming of a Vulnerable Adult
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Creates the offense of digital grooming of a vulnerable adult and prohibits using an electronic communication device or social media to engage in certain conduct with vulnerable adults.
|
|
Nebraska
|
L 107
|
Digital Grooming
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Creates the offense of digital grooming and prohibits using an electronic communication device or social media to engage in certain conduct with minors.
|
|
Nevada
|
A 320
|
Internet Privacy
|
Failed
|
Imposes certain requirements on certain businesses that provide an online service, product or feature that is likely to be accessed by children; exempts certain information and entities from those requirements; provides a civil penalty for violations of those requirements; requires the attorney general to take certain actions before bringing a civil action against a business to recover such a civil penalty under certain circumstances.
|
|
New Hampshire
|
None
|
|
|
|
|
New Jersey
|
A 1992
|
School Smart Phone and Social Media Usage Study
|
Pending
|
Establishes commission to study effects on adolescents of smart phone and social media usage in school.
|
|
New Jersey
|
A 3271
|
Online Safe User Practices Instruction
|
Pending
|
Requires a provision of instruction on safe user practices for certain websites and mobile applications as part of State Student Learning Standards for Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
|
|
New Jersey
|
A 4050
|
Protections for Social Media Users
|
Pending
|
Provides protections for social media users; creates private cause of action for social media users whose accounts have been hacked and not restored by social media websites under certain circumstances.
|
|
New Jersey
|
A 4416
|
Temporary Unit to Monitor Certain Social Media Posts
|
Pending
|
Appropriates a specified amount to Division of State Police establishing temporary unit to monitor certain social media posts and provide support to local police.
|
|
New Jersey
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A 4919
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Childrens Data Protection Commission
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Pending
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Concerns social media privacy and data management for children and establishes New Jersey Children’s Data Protection Commission.
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New Jersey
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A 5069
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Social Media Platforms Child Safety
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Pending
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Prohibits social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause child users to become addicted to platform.
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New Jersey
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A 5394
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Social Media Local Law Enforcement Protocols
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Pending
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Requires local law enforcement develop protocol for social media in certain circumstances.
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New Jersey
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A 5474
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Online Video Blogs Children Rights and Privacy
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Pending
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Protects monetary rights and privacy of minor children featured in online video blogs.
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New Jersey
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AR 167
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Parental Consent for Social Media Use
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Adopted
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Urges President and Congress to enact legislation that requires parental consent for children under 16 years of age to use social media and other websites.
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New Jersey
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AR 191
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Kids Online Safety Act
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Pending
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Urges Congress and President of the United States to enact the Kids Online Safety Act.
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New Jersey
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S 714
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Social Network Websites Offensive Communication
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Pending
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Provides penalties for sexually offensive or abusive communication through social networking websites.
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New Jersey
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S 715
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School Adolescent Smart Phone Usage Study
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Enacted
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Establishes the Commission on the Effects of Social Media Usage on Adolescents to study social media usage in and out of public schools and to determine the effects that use has on the health and academic performance of students; provides for membership, including a member with demonstrated expertise in the collection, usage and analysis of data concerning social media and a school nurse from the New Jersey State School Nurses Association.
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New Jersey
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S 2839
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Monitor Certain Social Media Posts Unit
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Pending
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Supplemental appropriation of a specified amount to New Jersey Division of State Police establishing temporary unit to monitor certain social media posts; provides support to local police.
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New Jersey
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S 3493
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Children’s Data Protection Commission
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Pending
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Concerns social media privacy and data management for children and establishes the State Children’s Data Protection Commission.
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New Jersey
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S 3608
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Social Media Platforms Child User Protections
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Pending
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Prohibits social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause child users to become addicted to platform.
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New Mexico
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None
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New York
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A 94
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Commissioner of Education
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Pending
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Directs the commissioner of education to appoint a media literacy advisory committee to study the teaching of media literacy; requires such committee to annually review policy on media literacy.
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New York
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A 927
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Interactive Computer Service Providers
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Pending
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Prevents interactive computer service providers from knowingly or negligently promoting developed content that is dangerous or otherwise injurious to minors; assesses a civil penalty to social media networks that knowingly or negligently promote such content.
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New York
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A 936
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Parental Disclosures by Internet Platforms
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Pending
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Provides that upon request from a verified parent of a minor, an operator service who collects or maintains personal information from or about the user of or visitors to an platform or online service shall, to the extent practicable, provide the verified parent with digital or physical copies of all advertisements and other content which the minor was shown by the operator on the operator’s platform that were shown solely based on the minor’s identifiers.
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New York
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A 1108
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Interactive Computer Service Providers
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Pending
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Prohibits interactive computer service providers from knowingly promoting content to a targeted user and with the intention of developing the content, cause the user extreme emotional harm, physical injury or financial injury.
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New York
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A 1695
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Set of Media Literacy Standards for Students
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Pending
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Creates a set of media literacy standards for students in grades kindergarten through 12 which focuses on internet safety, civility and digital citizenship.
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New York
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A 1942
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Knowing and Reckless Promotion of False Material
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Pending
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Prohibits the knowing and reckless promotion of unlawful or false material; provides remedies for the violation of such prohibition.
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New York
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A 4967
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Child Data Privacy Protection Act
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Pending
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Amends the General Business Law; enacts the state child data privacy protection act to prevent the exploitation of children’s data; requires data controllers to assess the impact of its products on children for review by the bureau of internet and technology; bans certain data collection and targeted advertising.
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New York
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A 5505
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State Interagency Task Force on Human Trafficking
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Pending
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Directs the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking to investigate connections between social media and human trafficking.
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New York
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A 6789
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Social Media Companies Terms of Service
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Pending
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Provides that a social media company shall post terms of service for each social media platform owned or operated by the company in a manner reasonably designed to inform all users of the social media platform of the existence and contents of the terms of service; provides that the terms of service shall include specified information; provides that a social media company shall electronically submit a semiannual terms of service report to the attorney general.
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New York
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S 395
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Task Force on Human Trafficking
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To governor
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Directs the New York State Interagency Task Force on Human Trafficking to investigate connections between social media and human trafficking.
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New York
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S 577
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Promotion of Unlawful or False Material
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Pending
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Prohibits the knowing and reckless promotion of unlawful or false material; provides remedies for the violation of such prohibition.
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New York
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S 895
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Social Media Companies
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Pending
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Requires social media companies to post terms of service for each social media platform owned or operated by the company in a manner reasonably designed to inform all users of the social media platform of the existence and contents of the terms of service; requires social media companies to submit to the attorney general certain terms of service reports; provides remedies for violations.
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New York
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S 1433
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Social Media Monitoring Safety Act
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Pending
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Enacts the Social Media Monitoring Safety Act to provide data analytic resources and funding to every school district to facilitate the monitoring of social media activities to provide early-detection information of possible threats to a student's health and the safety of the school; makes an appropriation therefor.
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New York
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S 1583
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Internet Media Freedom Task Force
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Pending
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Establishes the Internet Media Freedom Task Force to study the practices and policies of social media companies that allow the posting of third-party content by users, as well as other issues relating to dissemination of such content, including but not limited to forms of censorship employed by social media companies.
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New York
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S 2319
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Interactive Computer Service Providers
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Pending
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Prevents interactive computer service providers from knowingly or negligently promoting developed content that is dangerous or otherwise injurious to minors; assesses a civil penalty to social media networks that knowingly or negligently promote such content.
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New York
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S 2324
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Parental Disclosures by Internet Platforms
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Pending
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Discloses to a parent the personal information and content about a minor collected by an operator of an internet platform when a parent requests such information.
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New York
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S 3281
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State Child Data Privacy Protection Act
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Pending
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Enacts the New York Child Data Privacy Protection Act to prevent the exploitation of children’s data; requires data controllers to assess the impact of its products on children for review by the Bureau of Internet and Technology; bans certain data collection and targeted advertising.
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New York
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S 4733
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Campaigns and Social Media Influencers
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Pending
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Requires that campaigns and social media influencers disclose when they share on social media that they are being paid by a campaign as part of campaign disclosures of paid media advertising.
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New York
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S 4848
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Interactive Computer Service Providers
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Pending
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Prohibits interactive computer service providers from knowingly promoting content to a targeted user and with the intention of developing the content, cause the user extreme emotional harm, physical injury or financial injury.
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New York
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S 6418
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Regulation of Social Media Companies and Platforms
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Pending
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Provides for age requirements for the use of social media and parental consent; prohibits certain data collection from social media accounts; limits the hours a minor can have access to social media; establishes penalties for violations.
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New York
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S 6686
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Social Media Open Application Programming
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Pending
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Requires social media platform to implement and maintain a standards-based application programming interface that permits third-party applications to retrieve data at no cost to be used for the user’s benefit and to provide certain information to users; requires social media companies to submit a report to the attorney general.
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North Carolina
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H 644
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Social Media Addiction
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Pending
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Combats social media addiction by requiring that social media platforms respect the privacy of state users’ data and not use a state minor’s data for advertising or algorithmic recommendations and makes willful violations of data user privacy an unfair practice under General Statutes.
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North Carolina
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H 773
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Let Parents Choose or Sammy’s Law of 2023
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Pending
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Enacts the Let Parents Choose Protection Act of 2023 to facilitate management of the social media interactions of children.
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N. Mariana Islands
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Not available
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Ohio
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None
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|
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Oklahoma
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H 2420
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State Department of Education
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Pending - Carryover
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Directs the State Department of Education to develop best practices and recommendations for instruction in digital citizenship, internet safety and media literacy.
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Oklahoma
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S 988
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Consumer Protection
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Pending - Carryover
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Relates to unlawful practices; prohibits the targeting to minors of content or messages containing obscene material; provides an effective date.
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Oregon
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H 3071
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Effects of Social Media Among Youth
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Failed
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Requires State Health Authority to study effects of social media and cellphone use among youth.
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Oregon
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S 196
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Online Products Services or Features
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Failed
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Requires business that provides online product, service or feature that child is reasonably likely to access to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks to child from online product, service or feature.
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Oregon
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S 257
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Pornography Access Age Verification
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Failed
|
Relates to verification of age of majority as a condition of a resident individual’s access to pornography; requires a person that provides public access to pornography to verify that resident individual is a specified age or older before granting access.
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Pennsylvania
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H 473
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Media Literacy Education
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Pending
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Amends the act known as the Public School Code, in terms and courses of study; provides for media literacy education.
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Pennsylvania
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H 602
|
Social Media Opioid Bill
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Pending
|
Amends the act known as The Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act; provides for reporting requirements of interactive computer service providers; imposes penalties.
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Pennsylvania
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HR 25
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Social Media Platforms and Websites
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Pending
|
Establishes a task force to study social media platforms and websites on which suicide is encouraged.
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Pennsylvania
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HR 73
|
Gun Violence and the Use of Social Media
|
Pending
|
Directs the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study, analyze and report on the relationship between gun violence and the use of social media.
|
|
Pennsylvania
|
S 22
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Protection of Minors on Social Media
|
Pending
|
Amends Title 50 Mental Health of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes; provides for protection of minors on social media; imposes penalties.
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|
Pennsylvania
|
S 496
|
Media Literacy Education
|
Pending
|
Amends the act known as the Public School Code, in terms and courses of study; provides for media literacy education.
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|
Puerto Rico
|
H 262
|
Cyber Privacy Protection Law
|
Pending
|
Creates the law for the protection of cyber privacy of our children and young people in order to prohibit any operator, employee or agent of an internet page classified as a social network, as defined herein, from publishing and or disclose personal information of underage users residing in Puerto Rico, beyond the name and city where they reside, without the express consent of these and that of the father, mother or guardian with parental authority.
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Puerto Rico
|
S 1240
|
Prevention of Mistreatment
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Pending
|
Amends the law for the prevention of mistreatment, preservation of the family unit and for the safety, well-being and protection of minors; broadens the definition of negligence to provide as a type of abuse the modality in which the father, mother or responsible person exposes a minor to smart devices or electronic and communication media without taking technological, automatic or mechanical measures to prevent a minor from being controlled, manipulated, monitored and/or cyberbullied.
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A. Samoa
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Not available
|
|
|
|
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South Carolina
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H 3021
|
Obscenity Law
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Defines certain terms; prohibits the distribution of sensitive crime scene images on social media or through other similar means; provides a penalty.
|
|
South Carolina
|
H 3424
|
Pornographic Website Provision
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Pending – Carryover
|
Provides definitions; provides that it is unlawful for an operator to make a pornographic website available to persons under the age of 18; provides that the attorney general shall create certain procedures; provides for a private right of action.
|
|
South Carolina
|
H 3426
|
Pornographic Website Provision
|
Pending – Carryover
|
Provides definitions; provides that it is unlawful for an operator to make a pornographic website available to persons under the age of 18; provides that the attorney general shall create certain procedures; provides for civil penalties.
|
|
South Carolina
|
S 404
|
Internet Based Application Prohibition
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Prohibits operators of internet-based applications from using automated decision systems to place content on social media platforms for users under the specified age who are residents of the state; requires operators to perform age-verification practices for certain users; establishes that a violation is an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the state unfair trade practices act, and for other purposes.
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South Dakota
|
None
|
|
|
|
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Tennessee
|
None
|
|
|
|
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Texas
|
H 18
|
Protection of Minors
|
Enacted
|
Relates to the protection of minors from harmful, deceptive or unfair trade practices in connection with the use of certain digital services and electronic devices, including the use and transfer of electronic devices to students by a public school.
|
|
Texas
|
H 99
|
Digital Citizenship Instruction in Public Schools
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to digital citizenship instruction in public schools.
|
|
Texas
|
H 896
|
Use of Social Media Platforms by Children
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to prohibiting use of social media platforms by children.
|
|
Texas
|
H 1181
|
Restricting Access to Pornographic Materials
|
Enacted
|
Relates to the publication or distribution of sexual material harmful to minors on an internet website; provides a civil penalty.
|
|
Texas
|
H 1594
|
Duties of Social Media Companies Regarding Prostitution
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to the duties of social media companies regarding prostitution and trafficking of persons; creates a criminal offense.
|
|
Texas
|
H 2155
|
Social Media Algorithm Prohibitions
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to prohibiting social media platforms from using certain social media algorithms to target minors.
|
|
Texas
|
H 2206
|
Prohibition of Certain Social Media Platforms
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to a prohibition of certain social media platforms developed or provided by certain foreign entities.
|
|
Texas
|
H 2690
|
Liability for Distribution of Abortion Inducing Drugs
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of abortion-inducing drugs and duties of internet service providers; creates a criminal offense; authorizes a private civil right of action.
|
|
Texas
|
H 2790
|
School Access to Social Media and Social Networking
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to access to social media and social networking websites on public school campuses.
|
|
Texas
|
H 3134
|
Notification of Social Media Posted Threats
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to requiring social media platform operators to identify and notify law enforcement of credible threats of violence published on their platforms; creates a criminal offense.
|
|
Texas
|
H 3357
|
Civil Liability for Obscenity
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to civil liability for obscenity.
|
|
Texas
|
H 3570
|
Restricting Access to Sexual Material Harmful to Minors
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to restricting access to sexual material harmful to minors on an internet website.
|
|
Texas
|
H 3585
|
Restricting Access to Sexual Material Harmful to Minors
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to restricting access to sexual material harmful to minors on an internet website.
|
|
Texas
|
H 4412
|
Minors and Digital Service Provider Agreements
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to online agreements between certain minors and certain digital service providers.
|
|
Texas
|
HCR 46
|
Pass Legislation to Protect Children
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Urges Congress to pass legislation to protect children from the harms of social media.
|
|
Texas
|
S 2021
|
Websites Containing Sexual Material Harmful to Minors
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to requirements for certain internet websites containing sexual material harmful to minors.
|
|
Texas
|
S 2164
|
Restricting Access to Sexual Material Harmful to Minors
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to restricting access to sexual material harmful to minors on an internet website.
|
|
Texas
|
S 2255
|
Social Media Companies and Law Enforcement Cooperation
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to cooperation between social media companies and law enforcement agencies; imposes a civil penalty.
|
|
Utah
|
H 311
|
Social Media Usage Amendments
|
Enacted
|
Regulates interactive computer services and the use and design of social media platforms; enacts the Utah Social Media Regulation Act; prohibits a social media company from using a design or feature that causes a minor to have an addiction to the company’s social media platform; grants the Division of Consumer Protection enforcement and auditing authority to enforce requirements under the act; authorizes a private right of action to collect attorney fees and damages from a social media company.
|
|
Utah
|
H 524
|
Social Media Usage Modifications
|
Failed
|
Authorizes the Division of Consumer Protection to administer and enforce the Utah Digital Expression Act; requires a social media company to publicly disclose information regarding its information management and its content moderation practices; requires a social media company to publish an acceptable use policy on prohibited material and content compliance; requires a social media company to have an easily accessible complaint and appeal process for complaint resolution.
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|
Utah
|
S 74
|
Digital Wellness Citizenship and Safe Technology
|
Failed
|
Requires the Digital Wellness, Citizenship and Safe Technology Commission to study and prepare a report on age-appropriate social media use for minors; extends the repeal date for the commission.
|
|
Utah
|
S 152
|
Social Media Regulation Amendments
|
Enacted
|
Enacts the Utah Social Media Regulation Act; requires a social media company to verify the age of state residents; requires a social media company to obtain the consent of a parent or guardian before a state resident under a specified age may maintain or open an account; prohibits a social media company from permitting a person to open an account if that person does not meet age requirements under state or federal law; provides for a private right of action.
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|
Utah
|
S 287
|
Online Pornography Viewing Age Requirements
|
Enacted
|
Creates obligations and liabilities for a commercial entity that provides pornography or other materials harmful to minors; provides that a commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material shall be held liable if the entity fails to perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of an individual attempting to access the material.
|
|
Vermont
|
None
|
|
|
|
|
Virginia
|
H 1391
|
Commission on Social Media
|
Failed
|
Relates to Commission on Social Media established; relates to report; establishes the 20-member Commission on Social Media in the legislative branch to study and make recommendations on the impacts and harms to citizens caused by social media platforms hosting or amplifying content that includes threats or suggestions of physical violence or danger toward citizens, institutions, groups, associations or physical structures of the commonwealth; provides that the Commission will study the impact.
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|
Virginia
|
S 1515
|
Material Harmful to Minors on the Internet
|
Enacted
|
Provides that any commercial entity that knowingly publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material shall, through the use of a commercially available database that is regularly used by businesses or governmental entities for the purpose of age and identity verification or another commercially reasonable method, verify that any person attempting to access material is a certain age or older; provides for civil liability.
|
|
U.S. Virgin Islands
|
None
|
|
|
|
|
Washington
|
S 5626
|
Media Literacy and Digital Citizenship
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Expands and enhances media literacy and digital citizenship in various school.
|
|
West Virginia
|
H 2460
|
Online Privacy Protection Laws for Children
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Provides online privacy protection laws for children.
|
|
West Virginia
|
H 2964
|
Online Privacy Protection for Minors
|
Failed - Adjourned
|
Relates to online privacy protection for minors.
|
|
Wisconsin
|
A 373
|
Use of Social Media Platforms by Minors
|
Pending
|
Concerns use of social media platforms by minors, grants rule making authority, provides a penalty.
|
|
Wisconsin
|
S 385
|
Use of Social Media Platforms by Minors
|
Pending
|
Relates to the use of social media platforms by minors, grants rule making authority, provides for a penalty.
|
|
Wyoming
|
None
|
|
|
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