Jurisdiction
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Bill Number
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Title
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Current Disposition
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Summary
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Alabama
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None
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Alaska
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H 254
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Publishing Pornography Liability
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Pending
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Relates to liability for publishing or distributing pornography to minors on the internet.
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Alaska
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H 271
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Social Media and Minors
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Pending
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Relates to social media and minors.
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Arizona
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H 2565
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Vloggers and Minors and Compensation and Trust Account
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Pending
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Relates to vloggers; relates to minors; relates to compensation; relates to trust account.
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Arizona
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H 2586
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Harmful Website Content and Age Verification
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Pending
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Relates to harmful website content; relates to age verification.
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Arizona
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H 2656
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Internet Pornography and Age Verification
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Pending
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Relates to internet pornography; relates to age verification.
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Arizona
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H 2699
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Internet Safety Instruction and Public Schools
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Pending
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Relates to internet safety instruction; relates to public schools.
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Arizona
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H 2793
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School Policies and Internet
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Pending
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Relates to school policies; relates to internet; relates to wireless devices.
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Arizona
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H 2858
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Social Media Protections and Minors
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Pending
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Relates to social media protections; relates to minors.
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Arizona
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S 1124
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Social Media Platforms and Standards and Notification
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Pending
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Relates to social media platforms; relates to standards; relates to notification.
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Arizona
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S 1125
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Internet And Material Harmful To Minors
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Pending
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Relates to internet; relates to material harmful to minors.
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Arizona
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S 1298
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Internet and Material Harmful to Minors
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Pending
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Relates to internet; relates to material harmful to minors.
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Arizona
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S 1573
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Digital and Media Instruction
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Pending
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Relates to the Arizona Department of Education; relates to digital and media instruction.
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Arkansas
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None
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California
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A 787
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Pupil Instruction: Digital Citizenship and Media
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Pending
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Requires, on or before specified date, the superintendent of public instruction to survey teacher librarians, principals, and technology directors to understand how they are 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
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A 836
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Social Media Platform: First Amendment Forum
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Failed
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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
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A 955
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Controlled Substances
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Failed
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Makes the sale of fentanyl on a social media platform in the state punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a specified period.
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California
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A 1282
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Mental Health: Impacts of Social Media
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Pending
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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.
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California
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A 1501
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Business Regulations: Sexually Explicit Material
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Failed
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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.
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California
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A 1800
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Controlled Substances: Social Media Companies
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Pending
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Imposes criminal liability and civil penalties on a social media company that operates a social media platform on which users offer controlled substances for sale. The bill would impose increased liability if, as a result of a sale of a controlled substance that occurred because of an offer made on a social media platform, an individual suffered an overdose or died.
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California
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S 287
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Features that Harm Child Users: Civil Penalty
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Failed
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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.
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California
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S 680
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Features that Harm Child Users: Civil Penalty
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Pending
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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.
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California
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S 764
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Social Media Platforms: Minor Users: Civil Penalties
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Pending
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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.
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California
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S 845
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Let Parents Choose Protection Act of 2023
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Failed
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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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California
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S 976
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Social Media Youth Addiction Law
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Pending
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Makes, under this bill, the Social Media Youth Addiction Law, it unlawful for the operator of an addictive social media platform, as defined, to provide an addictive feed to a user, unless the operator has reasonably determined that the user is not a minor or the operator has obtained verifiable parental consent to provide an addictive feed to the user who is a minor.
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Colorado
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H 1136
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Healthier Social Media Use by Youth
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Pending
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Concerns measures to encourage healthier social media use by youth.
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Connecticut
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None
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Delaware
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H 265
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Publishing Harmful Materials to Minors
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Pending
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Requires a commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally provides pornography and other materials defined as harmful to minors to verify the age of individuals accessing the material; imposes civil liability and a civil penalty on commercial entities that fail to comply with verification requirements; provides that an internet provider or user of an interactive computer service on the internet is not subject to liability.
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District of Columbia
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None
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Florida
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H 1
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Social Media Use for Minors
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Pending
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Requires social media platforms to prohibit certain minors from creating new accounts, terminate certain accounts, provide additional options for termination of such accounts, use reasonable age verification methods to verify the ages of account holders, and disclose specified policies and provide certain resources, measures, and disclaimers; authorizes the Department of Legal Affairs to bring actions for violations under the Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act; provides for private causes of actions.
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Florida
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H 3
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Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors
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Pending
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Requires a commercial entity that publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on certain websites and applications to perform reasonable age verification, prevent certain access, and provide for reporting unauthorized or unlawful access; prohibits retention of certain personal identifying information; authorizes the Department of Legal Affairs to bring action under Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for violations and adopt rules; provides civil penalties; provides for private causes of action.
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Florida
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H 207
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Social Media Protection for Minors
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Pending
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Requires social media platforms to disclose policies and provide resources, measures, and disclaimers; authorizes social media platforms to post compliance statements on internet home.
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Florida
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H 1377
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Public Records and Investigations
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Pending
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Relates to social media violations; provides that during an active investigation, information made confidential and exempt may be disclosed by the Department of Legal Affairs in the furtherance of its official duties and responsibilities, for print, publication, or broadcast if the department determines that such release would assist in notifying the public or locating a person that the department believes to be a victim of an improper use or disposal of customer records, and to another governmental entity.
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Florida
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S 454
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Protection of Minors on Social Media Platforms
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Pending
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Defines the terms account holder and social media platform; requires social media platforms to develop and implement a content moderation strategy to prevent a minor from being exposed to certain materials on the social media platform; requires social media platforms to verify the ages of users creating accounts on the platforms; requires social media platforms to provide parents or legal guardians with parental control settings that place controls on a minor child account.
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Florida
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S 1196
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Protect Our Children Act
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Pending
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Cites this act as the Protect Our Children Act; requires manufacturers of tablets or smartphones to manufacture such devices so that a filter meeting certain requirements is enabled upon activation of the device in the state; authorizes the attorney general to enforce the act; provides for damages; increases criminal penalties for adults who intentionally lure or entice, or who attempt to lure or entice, children under a specified age into a structure, dwelling or conveyance for other than a lawful purpose.
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Florida
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S 1430
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Social Media Protection for Minors
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Pending
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Requires social media platforms to disclose specified policies and provide specified resources, measures, and disclaimers, beginning on a specified date; authorizes social media platforms to post specified compliance statements on their internet home.
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Florida
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S 1788
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Age Verification for Social Media Platform Accounts
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Pending
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Requires social media platforms to prohibit certain minors from creating new accounts, use reasonable age-verification methods to verify the ages of account holders, to terminate certain accounts and provide additional options for termination of such accounts, and to disclose specified policies and provide specified resources, measures, and disclaimers; authorizes the Department of Legal Affairs to bring actions for violations under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
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Florida
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S 1792
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Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors
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Pending
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Requires a commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on a website or application that contains a substantial portion of such material to perform reasonable age verification methods and methods for reporting unauthorized or unlawful access; prohibits the retention of certain personal identifying information.
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Georgia
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H 338
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Student Technology Protection Act
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Pending
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Amends the Quality Basic Education Act, 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.
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Georgia
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H 910
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Entities That Distribute Material Harmful to Minors
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Pending
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Creates a civil remedy for damages against commercial entities that distribute material harmful to minors without performing age verification; requires that age verification information not be retained; provides for standards for liability; provides for exceptions; provides for related matters; repeals conflicting laws.
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Georgia
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H 968
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Child Performer Empowerment and Protection Act
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Pending
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Relates to regulation of employment of minors to require the establishment of blocked trust accounts for minors rendering artistic or creative services in this state; provides for definitions; provides for the commissioner of labor to investigate and determine conditions of employment of child performers prior to the commencement of such employment; provides for requirements related to blocked trust accounts for child performers.
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Georgia
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H 993
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Crimes and Offenses
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Pending
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Relates to offenses related to minors generally, to provide for the offense of grooming a minor for indecent purposes; provides for a definition; provides for a penalty; provides for related matters; repeals conflicting laws.
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Georgia
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S 351
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Protecting Children on Social Media Act
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Pending
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Provides for social media platform access by minors; requires local boards of education to adopt, implement, and enforce social media policies; authorizes the attorney general and the Department of Education to consult with and assist local boards of education in the development and implementation of such policies; requires social medial platforms to provide certain information to parents upon request; provides for enforcement authority of the attorney general; prohibits certain waivers.
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Guam
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None
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Hawaii
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H 79
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Standard Based Media Literacy Curriculum
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Pending
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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.
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Hawaii
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S 914
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Schools Media Literacy Curriculum
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Pending
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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.
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Hawaii
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S 2309
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Children Data Protections
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Pending
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Establishes the state Age-Appropriate Design Code to promote privacy protections for children and ensure that online products, services, or features that are likely to be accessed by children are designed in a manner that recognizes the distinct needs of children at different age ranges; establishes a children's data protection working group, administratively attached to the Department of the Attorney General, to assess and develop recommendations on the best practices for the implementation.
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Idaho
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H 448
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Publishers and Distributors Liability
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Pending
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Adds to existing law to establish provisions to protect minors from harmful material on the internet.
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Illinois
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H 1522
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Study Article of the School Code
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Pending
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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.
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Illinois
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H 2970
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Criminal Code
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Pending
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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.
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Illinois
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H 3880
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Childrens Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment
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Pending
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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.
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Illinois
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H 3943
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Social Media Content Moderation Act
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Pending
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Creates the Social Media Content Moderation Act; 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 on a semiannual basis, a social media company shall submit to the attorney general a terms of service report including specified information.
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Illinois
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H 4247
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Online Age Verification for Material Harmful to Minors
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Pending
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Creates the Online Age Verification for Material Harmful to Minors Act; 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 to verify that any person attempting to access such material is 18 years of age or older; provides that verification must be done through the use of a commercially available database that is regularly used by businesses.
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Illinois
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H 4625
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Courses of Study Article of the School Code
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Pending
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Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code; provides that all school districts shall, with guidance and standards provided by the state Board of Education and a group of educators convened by the state Board of Education, ensure that students receive developmentally appropriate opportunities to gain digital literacy skills beginning in elementary school; provides that digital literacy instruction shall include developmentally appropriate instruction in digital citizenship skills, media.
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Illinois
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H 4879
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Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act
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Pending
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Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act; provides that it is an unlawful practice within the meaning of the act for a high-impact social media company in the state to fail to make available to its customers, at no cost, a customer support service to address customer issues and complaints during the hours the high-impact social media company regularly conducts business; provides that the customer support service must respond to customers within one business day after a customer.
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Illinois
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S 1413
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Pharmaceuticals on Social Media Act
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Pending
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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.
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Illinois
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S 1739
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Minor Online Data Privacy Act
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Pending
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Creates the Minor Online Data Privacy Act; contains only a short title provision.
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Illinois
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S 1784
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Child Labor Law
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Pending
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Amends the Child Labor Law; provides that a vlogger who features a minor child in a specified amount of the vlogger's content shared on an online platform must set aside a specified amount of gross earnings on the video content in a trust account to be preserved for the benefit of the minor upon reaching the age of majority; provides for the requirements of the trust account; defines terms.
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Illinois
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S 2590
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Adult Content Age Verification Act
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Pending
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Creates the Adult Content Age Verification Act; defines terms; 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 material harmful to minors shall be subject to civil penalties if the entity fails to perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material; provides that the attorney general may investigate.
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Indiana
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H 1036
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Age Verification to Minors
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Pending
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Relates to age verification for material harmful to minors; requires an adult oriented website operator that displays material harmful to minors to use a reasonable age verification method to prevent a minor from accessing an adult oriented website.
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Indiana
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H 1063
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Age Verification
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Pending
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Relates to age verification; requires an adult oriented website operator that displays material harmful to minors to use a reasonable age verification method to prevent a minor from accessing an adult oriented website; creates a cause of action to permit, the parent or guardian of a child harmed by a violation of the age verification requirement to obtain monetary damages, injunctive relief, and reasonable attorney's fees, and the attorney general.
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Indiana
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H 1140
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Age Verification for Material Harmful to Minors
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Pending
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Relates to age verification for material harmful to minors; requires an adult oriented website operator that displays material harmful to minors to use a reasonable age verification method to prevent a minor from accessing an adult oriented website; creates a cause of action to permit, the parent or guardian of a child harmed by a violation of the age verification requirement to obtain monetary damages, injunctive relief, and reasonable attorney's fees, and any other person to bring an action.
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Indiana
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H 1253
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Internet and Social Media Literacy Education
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Pending
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Relates to internet and social media literacy education; requires the Department of Education to develop curricula concerning internet and social media literacy; permits a school corporation to offer an elective course on internet and social media literacy.
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Indiana
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H 1295
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Material Harmful to Minors Age Verification
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Pending
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Relates to age verification for material harmful to minors; requires an adult oriented website operator that displays material harmful to minors to use a reasonable age verification method to prevent a minor from accessing an adult oriented website; creates a cause of action to permit, the parent or guardian of a child harmed by a violation of the age verification requirement to obtain monetary damages, injunctive relief, and reasonable attorney's fees.
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Indiana
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H 1314
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Social Media Use by Minors
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Pending
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Relates to social media use by minors; provides that a social media service may not allow a state resident who is a minor to hold an account with the social media service unless the social media service receives written consent to the minor’s use of the social media service from the minors’ parent or guardian; requires a social media service to configure the account of a registered user that the social media service knows, or reasonably should know, is, a minor.
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Indiana
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S 17
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Age Verification Requirement for Minors
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Pending
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Provides that an adult oriented website operator may not knowingly or intentionally publish an adult oriented website unless the adult oriented website operator uses a reasonable age verification method to prevent a minor from accessing the site; provides that if an adult oriented website operator violates this requirement and a minor accesses the website, the parent or guardian of the minor who accessed the adult oriented website may bring an action against the operator; provides for injunctive relief.
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Indiana
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S 201
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Minor Use of Mobile Devices and Social Media
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Pending
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Relates to minor use of mobile devices and social media; requires the manufacturer of a mobile smart device that incorporates an adult content filter and that is sold in the state after specified date to configure the operating system of the mobile smart device, such that the adult content filter is enabled upon activation of the mobile smart device, and in a manner that reasonably ensures that a minor cannot disable the adult content filter.
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Indiana
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S 287
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Schools Internet Safety Curricula
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Pending
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Relates to internet safety curricula for schools; provides that a school corporation may include instruction regarding internet safety in the school corporation's curriculum; requires the Department of Education to develop age-appropriate curricula in internet safety for use at multiple grade levels, and specifies topics that must be included in the curricula.
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Iowa
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H 489
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Civil Liability for Material Harmful to Minors
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Pending
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Relates to civil liability for commercial entities who publish or distribute material harmful to minors on the internet; provides penalties.
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Iowa
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H 526
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Social Media Users
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Pending
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Relates to social media users under the specified age; makes penalties applicable; includes applicability provisions.
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Iowa
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H 712
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Social Media Data Collection Regarding Children
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Pending
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Relates to social media data collection regarding children under 18 years of age; provides civil penalties; includes applicability provisions.
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Iowa
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H 2051
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Obscene Material
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Pending
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Relates to obscene material available on devices and imposes civil liability on entities who publish or distribute obscene material on the internet.
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Iowa
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H 2255
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Minor Accounts on Social Media
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Pending
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Relates to parental authorization for minors to create accounts on social media platforms; provides civil penalties; includes applicability provisions.
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Iowa
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S 2219
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Regulation of Access to Obscene Material by Minors
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Pending
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Relates to the regulation of access to obscene material by minors on social media platforms; includes effective date provisions.
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Iowa
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S 2227
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Obscene Material Available on Devices
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Pending
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Relates to obscene material available on devices and imposing civil liability on platforms who publish or distribute obscene material on the internet and includes effective date provisions.
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Kansas
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H 2592
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Consumer Protection Regarding Internet Content
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Pending
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Relates to requiring the use of age-verification technology to permit access to internet websites containing material that is harmful to minors.
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Kansas
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S 222
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Online Platforms and Removal of Liability Protections
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Pending
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Relates to removing liability protections from online platforms and requiring certain wireless communication devices to have a default setting notifying parents of application downloads.
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Kansas
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S 394
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Consumer Protection Regarding Internet Content
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Pending
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Relates to requiring the use of age-verification technology to permit access to internet websites containing material that is harmful to minors.
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Kentucky
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H 241
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Protection of Minors
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Pending
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Declares legislative findings relating to pornography; defines terms; establishes a civil 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 causes of action for violations; establishes limitations on applicability and liability.
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Kentucky
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H 450
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Protection of Minors
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Pending
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Defines terms; prohibits social media companies from allowing minors to create accounts without parental consent; provides means for establishing age and providing parental consent; prohibits retention of personal information obtained through consent process; requires social media companies to provide parents with means for account supervision; authorizes the attorney general to enforce through administrative and judicial action; establishes a private civil cause of action.
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Kentucky
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H 463
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Protection of Children Using Social Media
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Pending
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Defines terms; specifies what entities are subject to this act; requires digital service providers to register the age of the user; specifies the duties of digital services providers relating to agreements with minors; requires digital service providers to develop internal controls to prevent minors from being exposed to obscene matter, create parental monitoring tools, prevent advertising certain goods and services to minors, and provide information related to algorithms and content promotion.
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Louisiana
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None
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Maine
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None
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Maryland
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H 603
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Online Products and Services Consumer Data Protection
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Pending
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Requires a certain entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment under certain circumstances; requires certain privacy protections for certain online products; prohibits certain data collection and sharing practices.
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Maryland
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H 645
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Social Media Platforms Vloggers and Video Content
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Pending
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Requires a vlogger who creates video content that is posted on a social media platform and features a certain minor child to compensate the child under certain circumstances; establishes requirements on social media platforms relating to deleting video content featuring minor children; applies certain requirements related to the labor of minors to children compensated by vloggers.
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Maryland
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H 672
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Website Age Verification Standards
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Pending
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Requires a website operator or other person who displays, exhibits, sells, shows, or advertises for sale obscene material to adhere to certain age verification standards.
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Maryland
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S 382
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Display of Obscene Materials to Minors
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Pending
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Requires a website operator or other person who displays, exhibits, sells, shows, or advertises for sale obscene material to adhere to certain age verification standards.
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Maryland
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S 571
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Online Products and Services Consumer Data Protection
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Pending
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Requires a certain entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment by April 1, 2026; requires a covered entity to complete a data protection impact assessment within 90 days after the product is offered to the public; requires businesses to document certain risks associated with certain online products.
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Maryland
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S 739
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Algorithmic Addiction Fund Establishment
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Pending
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Establishes the Algorithmic Addiction Fund; provides that the fund includes all revenue received by the state from a judgment against, or settlement with, technology conglomerates, technology companies, social media conglomerates, or social media companies relating to claims made by the state; requires the secretary of health to develop certain goals, objectives, and indicators relating to algorithm addiction treatment and prevention efforts; requires the secretary to establish a certain grant program.
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Massachusetts
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H 80
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Internet Privacy Rights for Children
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Pending
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Relates to internet privacy rights for children.
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Massachusetts
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H 560
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Media Literacy in Schools
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Pending
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Relates to media literacy in schools.
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Massachusetts
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H 1893
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Social Media Consumer Privacy Protection
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Pending
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Relates to social media consumer privacy protection.
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Massachusetts
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H 1986
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Social Media Safety
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Pending
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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.
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Michigan
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H 4414
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Data Security
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Pending
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Provides department to create resources concerning digital literacy and cyber safety on public website.
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Michigan
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H 5009
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Pornographic Websites
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Pending
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Requires age verification to visit adult-only pornographic websites.
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Minnesota
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H 192
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Education Finance
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Pending
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Relates to education finance; 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.
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Minnesota
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H 1503
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Consumer Protection
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Pending
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Relates to consumer protection; 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.
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Minnesota
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H 2257
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Minnesota Age-Appropriate Design Code Act
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Pending
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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.
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Minnesota
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S 163
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Education Finance
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Pending
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Relates to education finance; 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.
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Minnesota
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S 2101
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Consumer Protection
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Pending
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Relates to consumer protection; prohibits certain social media algorithms that target children.
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Minnesota
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S 2810
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Consumer Data Privacy
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Pending
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Relates to consumer data privacy; 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.
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Mississippi
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H 925
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Restrict Use of Wireless Devices by Students
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Pending
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Requires each district school board and charter school governing board to adopt an internet safety policy for student access to the internet provided by the school district; prescribes the requirements for the policy; requires each school district and charter school governing board to prohibit and prevent student access to social media through internet access provided by the school district; prohibits the use of certain platforms on district owned devices and through internet access provided by the school.
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Mississippi
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S 2256
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Child Pornography and Obscenity
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Pending
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Provides that any commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes obscene matter, or matter that depicts, describes or promotes child pornography or child sexual exploitation on the internet may be held liable to an individual for nominal damages, actual damages, punitive damages, court costs and reasonable attorney fees.
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Missouri
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H 1513
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Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Act
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Pending
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Establishes the Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Act.
|
Missouri
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H 1855
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Civil Liability for Publishing or Distributing Material
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Pending
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Establishes provisions relating to civil liability for publishing or distributing material harmful to minors on the internet.
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Missouri
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H 1993
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Publication of Material Harmful to Minors
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Pending
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Establishes provisions relating to civil liability for publishing or distributing material harmful to minors on the internet.
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Missouri
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H 1998
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Child Labor Laws and Vlogging
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Pending
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Modifies provisions of child labor laws and provides additional employment requirements for children engaged in online content creation or vlogging.
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Missouri
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H 2157
|
Standards To Promote Digital Safety of Minors
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Pending
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Establishes standards to promote the safety of minors using the internet and social media.
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Missouri
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H 2375
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ID Requirements for Pornographic Materials
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Pending
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Creates a requirement that users must provide government-issued identification prior to viewing pornographic materials provided by commercial entities on the internet.
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Missouri
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S 961
|
Material Harmful to Minors
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Failed
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Relates to material harmful to minors.
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Missouri
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S 1305
|
Age Verification on Dating Sites
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Pending
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Creates new provisions relating to age verification on dating sites.
|
Missouri
|
S 1311
|
Media Literacy and Critical Thinking
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Pending
|
Establishes the Media Literacy and Critical Thinking pilot program requiring the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to select five to seven school districts to address the components of media literacy during the 2025-26 and 2026-27 school years.
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Montana
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No regular 2024 session
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|
|
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Nebraska
|
L 106
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Digital Grooming of a Vulnerable Adult
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Pending
|
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.
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Nebraska
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L 107
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Digital Grooming
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Pending
|
Creates the offense of digital grooming and prohibits using an electronic communication device or social media to engage in certain conduct with minors.
|
Nebraska
|
L 1092
|
Online Age Verification Liability Act
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Pending
|
Adopts the Online Age Verification Liability Act.
|
Nevada
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No regular 2024 session
|
|
|
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New Hampshire
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H 1256
|
Internet Material Harmful to Minors
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Pending
|
Establishes liability for publisher and distributors of internet material harmful to minors.
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New Jersey
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A 1580
|
Online Gaming Platforms Human Trafficking Prevention
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Pending
|
Requires the Commission on Human Trafficking to identify methods to prevent human trafficking through online gaming platforms.
|
New Jersey
|
A 2367
|
Social Media Dangers Public Awareness Campaign
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Pending
|
Establishes public awareness campaign on dangers of social media use to minors; appropriates funds.
|
New Jersey
|
A 2389
|
Harassment or Bullying Minors
|
Pending
|
Establishes offense of harassing, intimidating, or bullying minor; establishes diversionary program for juveniles charged with offense.
|
New Jersey
|
A 2949
|
Social Network Websites Offensive Communication
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Pending
|
Provides penalties for sexually offensive or abusive communication through social networking websites.
|
New Jersey
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A 2981
|
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 2949
|
Social Network Websites Offensive Communication
|
Pending
|
Provides penalties for sexually offensive or abusive communication through social networking websites.
|
New Jersey
|
A 2981
|
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
|
S 1142
|
Cyber Harassment of Minor Criminalization
|
Pending
|
Broadens statute that criminalizes cyber-harassment of minor.
|
New Jersey
|
S 1959
|
Children Data Protection Commission
|
Pending
|
Concerns social media privacy and data management for children and establishes the State Children's Data Protection Commission.
|
New Jersey
|
S 1964
|
Social Media Platforms Child User Protections
|
Pending
|
Prohibits social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause child users to become addicted to platform.
|
New Jersey
|
S 1982
|
Social Media Platform Age Verification
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Pending
|
Requires age verification and parent or guardian consent for minor's use of social media platforms; prohibits certain messaging between adults and minors; provides that the term social media platform shall not include an internet-based service or application for which interactions between users are solely related to the provision of direct messages, commercial and financial transactions, peer-to-peer payments, consumer engagement around products, product reviews, sellers, services, events, or places.
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New Mexico
|
H 295
|
Protection of Minors from Harmful Material
|
Pending
|
Relates to protection of minors from harmful material.
|
New Mexico
|
S 68
|
Age-Appropriate Design Code Act
|
Pending
|
Relates to Age-Appropriate Design Code Act.
|
New York
|
A 35
|
Commissioner of Education
|
Pending
|
Directs the commissioner of education to appoint a media literacy advisory group to study the teaching of media literacy; requires such group to survey all school districts.
|
New York
|
A 94
|
Commissioner of Education
|
Pending
|
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.
|
New York
|
A 312
|
Laws Benefiting Child Performers
|
Pending
|
Relates to establishing protections for minors who are featured in influencer-generated content; provides that a minor under the specified age is considered engaged in work as an influencer when the specified criteria are met at any time during the previous period of a certain number of months; provides that a minor engaged in work as an influencer shall not be deemed a child performer regarding such work as an influencer.
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New York
|
A 927
|
Interactive Computer Service Providers
|
Pending
|
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.
|
New York
|
A 936
|
Parental Disclosures by Internet Platforms
|
Pending
|
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.
|
New York
|
A 1108
|
Interactive Computer Service Providers
|
Pending
|
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.
|
New York
|
A 1695
|
Set of Media Literacy Standards for Students
|
Pending
|
Creates a set of media literacy standards for students in grades kindergarten through 12 which focuses on internet safety, civility and digital citizenship.
|
New York
|
A 1942
|
Knowing and Reckless Promotion of False Material
|
Pending
|
Prohibits the knowing and reckless promotion of unlawful or false material; provides remedies for the violation of such prohibition.
|
New York
|
A 4967
|
Child Data Privacy Protection Act
|
Pending
|
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.
|
New York
|
A 5505
|
State Interagency Task Force on Human Trafficking
|
Pending
|
Directs the New York state Interagency Task Force on Human Trafficking to investigate connections between social media and human trafficking.
|
New York
|
A 6789
|
Social Media Companies Terms of Service
|
Pending
|
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.
|
New York
|
A 8101
|
Social Media Networks
|
Pending
|
Requires social media networks to use a third-party vendor to verify the age of new and existing social media account holders.
|
New York
|
A 8148
|
Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation for Kids Act
|
Pending
|
Establishes the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act prohibiting the provision of addictive feeds to minors by addictive social media platforms; establishes remedies and penalties.
|
New York
|
A 8314
|
Online Products Targeted Towards Children
|
Pending
|
Requires online products targeted towards children provide features to protect child users including providing screen time controls, prohibiting the promotion of harmful or illegal activities; removes features which inappropriately amplify the level of engagement a child user has with the online product.
|
New York
|
A 8805
|
Public Protection and General Government Budget
|
Pending
|
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state public protection and general government budget for the specified state fiscal year. Enacts the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act and the New York Child Data Protection Act.
|
New York
|
S 577
|
Promotion of Unlawful or False Material
|
Pending
|
Prohibits the knowing and reckless promotion of unlawful or false material; provides remedies for the violation of such prohibition.
|
New York
|
S 895
|
Social Media Companies
|
Pending
|
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.
|
New York
|
S 1433
|
Social Media Monitoring Safety Act
|
Pending
|
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.
|
New York
|
S 2319
|
Interactive Computer Service Providers
|
Pending
|
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.
|
New York
|
S 2324
|
Parental Disclosures by Internet Platforms
|
Pending
|
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.
|
New York
|
S 3281
|
State Child Data Privacy Protection Act
|
Pending
|
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.
|
New York
|
S 4848
|
Interactive Computer Service Providers
|
Pending
|
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.
|
New York
|
S 6418
|
Regulation of Social Media Companies and Platforms
|
Pending
|
Relates to the regulation of social media companies and social media platforms; 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.
|
New York
|
S 6686
|
Social Media Open Application Programming
|
Pending
|
Relates to social media open application programming; 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.
|
New York
|
S 7662
|
Statewide Youth Mental Health and Social Media Campaign
|
Pending
|
Establishes a statewide youth mental health and social media campaign to promote public awareness of the impacts of social media usage on mental health; requires a course of study on social media usage for all students.
|
New York
|
S 7694
|
Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation for Kids Act
|
Pending
|
Establishes the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act prohibiting the provision of addictive feeds to minors by addictive social media platforms; establishes remedies and penalties.
|
New York
|
S 8305
|
Public Protection and General Government Budget
|
Pending
|
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state public protection and general government budget for the specified state fiscal year. Enacts the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act and the New York Child Data Protection Act.
|
New York
|
S 8394
|
Social Media Networks Content Moderation Policies
|
Pending
|
Requires that social media networks develop content moderation policies that inform users of how offending content is identified and of enforcement actions against certain content encouraging harm to persons or property; requires notice of procedures for enforcement actions and appeals.
|
North Carolina
|
H 644
|
Social Media Addiction
|
Pending
|
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.
|
North Carolina
|
H 773
|
Let Parents Choose or Sammy's Law of 2023
|
Pending
|
Enacts the Let Parents Choose Protection Act of 2023 to facilitate management of the social media interactions of children.
|
North Dakota
|
No regular 2024 session
|
|
|
|
N. Mariana Islands
|
Not available
|
|
|
|
Ohio
|
H 295
|
Innocence Act
|
Pending
|
Enacts the Innocence Act to prohibit an organization from failing to verify the age of a person attempting to access material that is obscene or harmful to juveniles; prohibits a person from using another person's likeness to create sexual images of the other person, and to create a private right of action for each prohibited activity.
|
Ohio
|
H 376
|
Kidfluencer Protection Act
|
Pending
|
Requires vloggers to hold in a trust account a portion of compensation earned from any content featuring minors and to name this act the Kidfluencer Protection Act.
|
Ohio
|
S 202
|
Underage Parental Consent
|
Pending
|
Requires that operators of online web sites, services, and products that target children under age 16 obtain parental consent.
|
Ohio
|
S 212
|
Pornographic Material Distribution
|
Pending
|
Prohibits businesses from distributing pornographic material over the internet without verifying that the persons accessing that material are not juveniles.
|
Ohio
|
S 217
|
AI Generated Product Watermark
|
Pending
|
Requires AI-generated products have a watermark, to prohibit simulated child pornography, and to prohibit identity fraud using a replica of a person.
|
Oklahoma
|
H 2420
|
State Department of Education
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Directs the State Department of Education to develop best practices and recommendations for instruction in digital citizenship, internet safety, and media literacy.
|
Oklahoma
|
H 3008
|
Crimes and Punishments
|
Pending
|
Relates to crimes and punishments; defines terms; makes commercial entities liable for publishing or distributing material harmful to minors under certain circumstances; prohibits commercial entities from retaining identifying information; provides for damages, court costs, and reasonable attorney fees; provides exceptions; provides for codification; provides an effective date.
|
Oklahoma
|
H 3097
|
Crimes and Punishments
|
Pending
|
Relates to crimes and punishments; defines terms; makes commercial entities liable for publishing or distributing obscene material on the internet; provides internet and cellular service subscribers the opportunity to make certain request; requires commercial entities to block access without charge; establishes liability provisions for violations; provides exemptions from liability; prohibits the retention of identifying information.
|
Oklahoma
|
H 3277
|
Student Digital Safety and Awareness Act
|
Pending
|
Relates to schools; creates the Student Digital Safety and Awareness Act; directs boards of education to adopt and implement digital safety policies; lists components to address in digital safety policy; requires data privacy and protection measures and transparency in data collection; mandates schools to report annually on the digital safety policy effectiveness; directs the State Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to oversee and ensure compliance with act.
|
Oklahoma
|
H 3914
|
Reasonable Age Verification
|
Pending
|
Relates to social media; defines terms; requires reasonable age verification; requires parental consent; establishes certain liability for social media companies; establishes certain liability for commercial entities and third-party vendors; provides for codification; provides an effective date.
|
Oklahoma
|
S 988
|
Consumer Protection
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Relates to consumer protection; relates to unlawful practices; prohibits the targeting to minors of content or messages containing obscene material; provides an effective date.
|
Oklahoma
|
S 1198
|
Schools
|
Pending
|
Requires school district boards of education to adopt a certain policy; requires boards of education to provide a certain program on sex trafficking and exploitation prevention and awareness to certain students; directs the state Department of Education to develop certain curriculum on human trafficking; requires curriculum for certain grades to address specific topics; directs the department to develop certain curriculum on social media.
|
Oklahoma
|
S 1868
|
Consumer Protection
|
Pending
|
Relates to consumer protection; prohibits any website from requiring identity verification; provides for violation; provides for codification; provides an effective date.
|
Oklahoma
|
S 1959
|
Consumer Protection
|
Pending
|
Relates to consumer protection; defines terms; allows for damages to be sought under certain conditions; prohibits commercial entities from distributing certain material without verification; provides for lawful access to certain material; prevents a commercial entity from being held liable under certain conditions; prohibits a commercial entity from retaining individual's information; exempts certain providers; requires attorney general to take certain action; authorizes attorney general to develop.
|
Oklahoma
|
S 1960
|
Material Harmful to Minors
|
Pending
|
Relates to material harmful to minors; relates to definitions; updates statutory references; updates statutory language; directs commercial entities to establish age verification methods to prevent minors from accessing harmful material; prohibits retention of certain identifying information; establishes certain liability; provides specific exceptions; provides for codification; provides an effective date.
|
Oregon
|
None
|
|
|
|
Pennsylvania
|
H 473
|
Media Literacy Education
|
Pending
|
Amends the act known as the Public School Code, in terms and courses of study; provides for media literacy education.
|
Pennsylvania
|
H 602
|
Social Media Opioid Bill
|
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.
|
Pennsylvania
|
HR 25
|
Social Media Platforms and Websites
|
Pending
|
Establishes a task force to study social media platforms and websites on which suicide is encouraged.
|
Pennsylvania
|
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
|
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.
|
Pennsylvania
|
S 343
|
Internet Safety Education Curriculum
|
Pending
|
Amends the act known as the Public School Code, in terms and courses of study; provides for internet safety education curriculum.
|
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.
|
Puerto Rico
|
H 262
|
Cyber Privacy Protection Law
|
Pending
|
Creates the law for the protection of cyber privacy of our children and young people to prohibit any operator, employee or agent of an internet page classified as a social network, as defined herein, from publishing and or disclosing 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.
|
Puerto Rico
|
HJR 559
|
Public Broadcasting
|
Pending
|
Relates to order the Police Bureau, the Department of Education and the Puerto Rico Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to jointly carry out a cycle of orientations to the parents or guardians of the students of the public education system and to the public in general, about the risks of uploading photos of minors on social networks.
|
Puerto Rico
|
S 1240
|
Prevention of Mistreatment
|
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 for 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.
|
Rhode Island
|
None
|
|
|
|
A. Samoa
|
Not available
|
|
|
|
South Carolina
|
H 3021
|
Obscenity Law
|
Pending - Carryover
|
Defines certain terms, prohibit 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
|
Pending
|
Provides that it is unlawful for an operator to make a pornographic website available to persons under the specified age; provides that the attorney general shall create certain procedures; provides for a private right of action; provides that any commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes obscene material, or material that depicts, describes, or promotes child pornography or child sexual exploitation, on the internet may be held liable to an individual for damages.
|
South Carolina
|
H 3426
|
Pornographic Website Provision
|
Pending
|
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
|
H 4700
|
Social Media Company Restriction to Minor Users
|
Pending
|
Provides definitions; provides that a social media company may not permit certain minors to be account holders; provides requirements for social media companies; provides that a social media company shall provide certain parents or guardians with certain information; provides that a social media company shall restrict social media access to minors during certain hours; provides for consumer complaints.
|
South Carolina
|
H 4842
|
Design Code Act
|
Pending
|
Relates by enacting the South Carolina Age-Appropriate Design Code Act; provides definitions; provides for information fiduciary; provides scope and exclusions; provides requirements for covered entities; provides for prohibitions for covered entities; provides for data practices; provides for enforcement; provides for limitations.
|
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.
|
South Dakota
|
H 1257
|
Website Age Verification
|
Pending
|
Requires age verification by websites containing material harmful to minors.
|
Tennessee
|
H 1614
|
Consumer Protection
|
Pending
|
Enacts the Protect Tennessee Minors Act; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in the state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors perform reasonable age-verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material; specifies that a violation of age-verification or data retention requirements is a Class C felony.
|
Tennessee
|
H 1891
|
Protecting Children from Social Media Act
|
Pending
|
Creates the Protecting Children from Social Media Act.
|
Tennessee
|
H 2160
|
Consumer Protection
|
Pending
|
Requires a commercial entity that knowingly publishes or distributes on the internet material harmful to minors to provide internet or cellular service subscribers the opportunity to request that the commercial entity block website access through the subscriber's internet or cellular service subscription.
|
Tennessee
|
H 2709
|
Parental Consent
|
Pending
|
Requires a social media company to obtain parental consent before allowing a minor to create an account or access an already existing account; prohibits a social media company from using practices, designs, or features on the social media platform that the social media company knows or should know cause minors to develop an addiction to the social media platform.
|
Tennessee
|
S 1643
|
Consumer Protection
|
Pending
|
Relates to consumer protection; requires commercial entities that publish or distribute material on an internet website, more than one-third of which is sexual material harmful to minors, to verify that an individual attempting to access the material is of certain age or older; prohibits a commercial entity or a third party that performs the age verification from retaining any identifying information of the individual.
|
Tennessee
|
S 1792
|
Consumer Protection
|
Pending
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Enacts the Protect Tennessee Minors Act; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors perform reasonable age-verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material; specifies that a violation of age-verification or data retention requirements is a Class C felony.
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Tennessee
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S 2042
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Consumer Protection
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Pending
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Requires a commercial entity that knowingly publishes or distributes on the internet material harmful to minors to provide internet or cellular service subscribers the opportunity to request that the commercial entity block website access through the subscriber's internet or cellular service subscription.
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Tennessee
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S 2097
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Protecting Children from Social Media Act
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Pending
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Creates the Protecting Children from Social Media Act.
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Tennessee
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S 2372
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Parental Consent
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Pending
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Requires a social media company to obtain parental consent before allowing a minor to create an account or access an already existing account; prohibits a social media company from using practices, designs, or features on the social media platform that the social media company knows or should know cause minors to develop an addiction to the social media platform.
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Texas
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No regular 2024 session
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Utah
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H 342
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Electronic Information Privacy Amendments
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Pending
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Modifies provisions dealing with consumers' personal information.
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Utah
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H 464
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Social Media Regulation Act Amendments
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Pending
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Enacts provisions regarding harm to minors from the excessive use of algorithmically curated social media services.
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Utah
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S 89
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Utah Social Media Regulation Act
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Enacted
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Changes when the provisions of the Utah Social Media Regulation Act become effective; delays the effective date for provisions of the Utah Social Media Regulation Act applicable to social media companies; provides that beginning on specified date, a social media company may not permit a state resident who is a minor to be an account holder on the social media company’s social media platform unless the state resident has the express consent of a parent or guardian.
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Utah
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S 194
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Social Media Regulation Amendments
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Pending
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Enacts provisions related to age verification and protecting minors in the State Minor Protection in Social Media Act.
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Vermont
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H 712
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Age-Appropriate Design Code
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Pending
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Relates to age-appropriate design code.
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Vermont
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H 797
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Social Media Platforms
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Pending
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Relates to the regulation of social media platforms for the protection of child users.
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Vermont
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S 284
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Electronic Devices
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Pending
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Relates to the use of electronic devices and digital and online products in schools.
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Vermont
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S 289
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Age Appropriate Design Code
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Pending
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Relates to age-appropriate design code.
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Virginia
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H 547
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Internet Safety Advisory Council
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Pending
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Relates to Internet Safety Advisory Council; relates to school boards; relates to internet safety education program; extends from specified date, the sunset date for the Internet Safety Advisory Council.
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Virginia
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H 562
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Commercial Entity Offering Social Media Accounts
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Pending
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Relates to a commercial entity offering social media accounts; relates to restricted hours for minors; relates to civil liability; provides that no commercial entity that offers social media accounts shall knowingly or intentionally allow a minor to access his social media account during the specified hours, unless the minor’s parent, guardian, or legal custodian has provided permission for the minor to use such social media account during these hours.
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Virginia
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H 706
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Public Secondary Schools
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Pending
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Relates to public secondary schools; relates to public institutions of higher education; relates to internet safety education required; relates to report; requires the Board of Education to develop and approve objectives for internet safety education at the middle school and high school grade levels to be required of all students in specified grades and to provide for the infusion of such objectives in the relevant Standards of Learning and in career and technical education.
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Virginia
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H 877
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Virginia Social Media Regulation Act
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Pending
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Relates to Virginia Social Media Regulation Act established; relates to penalties; establishes the Virginia Social Media Regulation Act for the purpose of prohibiting minors in state from possessing an account on any social media platform without the express consent of a parent or guardian; requires a social media company to provide a minor's parent or guardian with access to the minor's account and all posts and information on such account.
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Virginia
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H 1115
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Consumer Data Protection Act
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Pending
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Relates to Consumer Data Protection Act; relates to social media platforms; prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from implementing certain practices, designs, and features of the social media platform for any interaction with such child that includes infinite scroll, auto-playing videos, push notifications, gamification, and virtual gifts.
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Virginia
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H 1161
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Consumer Data Protection Act
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Pending
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Relates to Consumer Data Protection Act; relates to social media; relates to parental consent; requires social media platforms, defined in the bill, that are subject to the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act to obtain verifiable parental consent prior to permitting any minor to create an account with such social media platform and, with such account, use the social media platform; provides that the bill requires such social media platforms to give the parent or guardian.
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Virginia
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H 1468
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Consumer Data Protection Act
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Pending
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Relates to Consumer Data Protection Act; relates to enforcement by the attorney general; relates to civil penalty; permits the attorney general to prohibit TikTok from being available to known minors in the commonwealth; provides that a civil penalty of specified amount may be assessed for violations by TikTok unless such website or application could not have reasonably known or have had reason to know of such operation in the commonwealth.
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Virginia
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S 359
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Consumer Data Protection Act
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Pending
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Relates to Consumer Data Protection Act; relates to social media platforms; relates to addictive feed; prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, defined in the bill, unless such social media platform obtains verifiable parental consent.
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Virginia
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S 361
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Consumer Data Protection Act
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Pending
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Relates to Consumer Data Protection Act; relates to protections for children; prohibits operators, defined in the bill, of websites, online services, or online or mobile applications from collecting or using the personal data of users they know are younger than the age of 18 without consent and prohibits the sale or disclosure of the personal data of such users.
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Virginia
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S 432
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Consumer Data Protection Act
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Pending
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Relates to Consumer Data Protection Act; relates to protections for children; requires a controller or processor to obtain verifiable parental consent, defined in the bill, prior to registering any child with the operator's product or service or before collecting, using, or disclosing such child's personal data and prohibits a controller from knowingly processing the personal data of a child for purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of such personal data.
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Virginia
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S 532
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Commercial Entity Offering Social Media Accounts
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Pending
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Relates to commercial entity offering social media accounts; relates to restricted hours for minors; relates to civil liability; provides that no commercial entity that offers social media accounts, as defined in the bill, shall knowingly or intentionally allow a minor to access his social media account during the hours of midnight to 6 a.m.
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Virginia
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S 684
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Online Childrens Safety Protection Act
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Pending
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Relates to online Children's Safety Protection Act established; relates to civil penalties; creates the Online Children's Safety Protection Act, which requires certain duties of covered entities, defined in the bill, to protect the best interests of children who use online services, products, or features; requires any covered entity that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by a child to complete a data protection impact assessment, the details of which are described.
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U.S. Virgin Islands
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None
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Washington
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H 1627
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For Profit Family Vlogs and Minor Children
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Pending
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Protects the interests of minor children featured on for-profit family vlogs.
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Washington
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H 2435
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TikTok in Washington
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Pending
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Bans TikTok in Washington.
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Washington
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S 5626
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Media Literacy and Digital Citizenship
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Pending - Carryover
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Expands and enhances media literacy and digital citizenship in various school.
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West Virginia
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H 4168
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Online Privacy Protection for Minors
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Pending
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Relates to online privacy protection for minors.
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West Virginia
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H 4423
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Protection of Minors from Harmful Material on Internet
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Pending
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Relates to material harmful to minors on the internet.
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West Virginia
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H 4718
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Online Privacy Protection Laws for Children
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Pending
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Provides online privacy protection laws for children under a certain age.
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West Virginia
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H 4867
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Age Verification Methods in Pornography Websites
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Pending
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Requires a commercial entity that provides pornography and other materials defined as being harmful to minors as a substantial portion of the entity’s content to verify the age of individuals accessing the material; establishes requirements and liability for the retention of data; imposes liability for publishers and distributors of material harmful to minors who fail to comply with verification requirements; relates to certain civil actions allowable by the attorney general; provides for civil penalties.
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West Virginia
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H 5226
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Child Social Media Protection Bill
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Pending
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Relates to the Child Social Media Protection Bill.
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West Virginia
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H 5272
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Child Online Pornography Protection
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Pending
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Relates to the Child Online Pornography Protection.
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West Virginia
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S 404
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Teen Social Media and Internet Safety Act
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Pending
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Relates to the Teen Social Media and Internet Safety Act.
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West Virginia
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S 466
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Safety While Accessing Technology Education Program
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Pending
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Provides that the state Board of Education shall, in collaboration with law enforcement agencies and other entities with experience in child online safety issues and human trafficking prevention, develop a Safety While Accessing Technology Education (SWAT) program for elementary and secondary school students in the state; provides that the state board may develop and provide age-appropriate instructional materials and resources to assist county boards in establishing and implementing the SWAT education program.
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Wisconsin
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A 373
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Use of Social Media Platforms by Minors
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Pending
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Concerns use of social media platforms by minors; grants rulemaking authority; provides a penalty.
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Wisconsin
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A 730
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Distribution of Certain Materials to Minors
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Pending
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Concerns the distribution of certain materials to minors.
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Wisconsin
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S 385
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Use of Social Media Platforms by Minors
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Pending
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Relates to the use of social media platforms by minors; grants rulemaking authority; provides for a penalty.
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Wisconsin
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S 683
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Distribution of Certain Materials to Minors
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Pending
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Concerns the distribution of certain materials to minors.
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Wyoming
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H 78
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Pornography and Obscenity Crimes and Penalties
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Pending
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Relates to crimes and offenses; specifies penalties for promoting obscenity on an internet website; requires a person who publishes material harmful to minors to an internet website to require age verification to access the website; prohibits a person from retaining identifying information related to age verification; requires the attorney general to provide for reporting of violations; provides penalties.
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Wyoming
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S 85
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Social Media Parental Consent for Minors
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Pending
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Relates to trade and commerce; requires parental consent for minors under a certain age to use a social media platform; provides definitions; requires rulemaking; provides for effective dates.
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