Social Media and Children 2025 Legislation

As concerns arise regarding the effects of social media usage on children's mental health, state legislators are introducing measures to protect children while using the internet and internet-based forms of communication, including social media. The legislation includes bills and resolutions that:

Create study commissions and task forces.
Establish age-appropriate design codes and require impact assessments.
Require age verification or parental consent to open social media acco4unts.
Add digital and media literacy courses or curriculum for K-12 students.
Regulate the use of cellphones in schools.

Over 45 states and Puerto Rico have at least 300 pieces of legislation pending so far in 2025. Bills enacted include:

Arkansas requires public school district and charter schools to establish a policy and exemptions regarding the student use of personal electronic devices during the school day.
California adopted a resolution creating the Positive Parenting Awareness month, which recognizes caregivers and parents are confronted with the surging mental health crisis, grappling with the harms and risks of social media and technology.
Kentucky created the crime of sexual extortion and requires each public school to display a sign that includes a description of sexual extortion and contact information for law enforcement and a national suicide prevention hotline.
Utah passed legislation which requires a parent or guardian establish a trust for a minor involved in entertainment; and establishes a right of action.
Utah passed legislation which requires app store providers to: verify user ages; obtain parental consent for minor accounts; notify users and parents of significant changes; share age and consent data with developers; and protect age verification data.
Virginia passed legislation which requires that a controller or processor that operates a social media platform to perform age screening to determine whether a user is a minor and limit a minor's use of such social media platform to one hour per day.
Wyoming requires age verification for visiting websites with material harmful to minors and creates a cause of action on the minors behalf against the covered platform.

Social Media and Children 2025 Legislation
State	Bill Number	Bill Title	Bill Status	Bill Summary
Alabama	H 65	Public K-12 Education	Pending	Relates to education, requires the state Board of Education to adopt a model policy restricting the use of cell phones in public K-12 schools, requires each local board of education to adopt a policy based on that model.
Alabama	H 81	Public Education	Pending	Relates to public kindergarten through 12 education, requires state Board of Education to adopt model student cell phone use policy, requires local boards of education to adopt cell phone use and storage policy.
Alabama	H 166	Public Kindergarten	Pending	Relates to public kindergarten through 12 grade education, prohibits the use, operation, and possession of wireless communication devices on certain public-school properties, requires local boards of education to adopt an Internet safety policy, requires students to complete a social media safety course prior to entering the eighth grade, repeals Section 16-1-27.
Alabama	H 235	Social Media	Pending	Concerns social media; prohibits individuals under 16 years of age from creating accounts, requires age verification; establishes penalties for violations.
Alabama	H 276	Social Media Platforms Account Termination	Pending	Concerns consumer protection; requires social media platforms terminate certain accounts; displays notifications; prohibits certain actions; relates to use of age verification; provides for certain tools; removes certain content; provides for penalties violations.
Alabama	S 92	Wireless Communication Devices	Pending	Relates to public kindergarten through 12 grade education, prohibits the use, operation and possession of wireless communication devices on certain public-school properties, to require local boards of education to adopt an Internet safety policy, requires students to complete a social media safety course prior to entering the eighth grade.
Alaska	H 46	Electronic Applications	Pending	Relates to minors; relates to the distribution and use of electronic applications. Requires an app store provider to verify the individual’s age for each individual located in the state who downloads or purchases an app from the provider’s app store, and obtain verifiable parental consent from a parent of the minor.
Alaska	H 57	Communication Devices in Public Schools	Pending	Relates to wireless telecommunications devices in public schools, provides for an effective date.
Alaska	H 76	Education Funding	Pending	Relates to education, relates to public school attendance, relates to mobile communication in devices in schools, relates to reading proficiency incentive grants, relates to authorization of charter schools, relates to transportation of students, relates to school bond debt reimbursement, relates to funding and reporting by State Technical and Vocational Education Programs, authorizes lump sum payments for certain teachers as retention and recruitment incentives, provides for an effective date.
Alaska	S 18	Communication Devices in Public Schools	Pending	Relates to wireless telecommunications devices in public schools.
Alaska	S 82	Education Funding	Pending	Relates to education, relates to public school attendance, relates to mobile communication devices in schools, relates to reading proficiency incentive grants, relates to authorization of charter schools, relates to transportation of students, relates to school bond debt reimbursement, relates to funding and reporting by State Technical and Vocational Education Programs, authorizes lump sum payments for certain teachers as retention and recruitment incentives, provides for an effective date.
Arizona	H 2484	School Policies and Internet and Wireless Devices	Pending	Relates to school policies, relates to internet, relates to wireless devices.
Arizona	H 2112	Internet Technology	Pending	Provides that a commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on a website, including a social media platform of which more than a specified amount is sexual material that is harmful to minors, shall use reasonable age verification methods to verify that an individual who attempts to access the material is a specified age or older; provides that an entity shall require an individual to provide a form of digital identification or comply with an age verification system.
Arizona	H 2172	Parent Training	Pending	Relates to crimes against children; provides that the Department of Education shall develop and maintain a webpage for parent training programs and resources that includes at least one training program that is provided free of charge and that includes instruction on both child sex trafficking and internet crimes against children, and educational materials and resources related to preventing such crimes; provides that on the request of a parent or guardian, each school shall provide specified information.
Arizona	H 2195	Digital Advertising and Content and Children	Pending	Relates to digital advertising directed toward children; relates to content restrictions; relates to civil penalty; relates to enforcement; relates to definitions.
Arizona	H 2815	Vloggers and Minors and Compensation	Pending	Relates to vloggers; relates to minors; relates to compensation; relates to trust accounts.
Arizona	H 2861	Social Media Protections and Minors	Pending	Relates to social media protections; relates to minors. Requires social media platforms to establish settings for the online service, product or feature that provide a high degree of privacy protections to each minor who uses the online service, product or feature and allows minors to opt-out of the collection of minor’s personal information.
Arizona	S 1226	School Policies and Wireless Communications Devices	Pending	Provides that each school district shall develop and adopt in a public meeting a policy to limit students’ use of wireless communications devices, including gaming devices and video players, during instructional time, provides that the policy adopted pursuant to this paragraph may include a requirement that each student deposit the student’s wireless communications device or devices into a secure location in a school building during instructional time and procedures for the deposits.
Arizona	S 1227	School Safety and Cell Phone Bans	Pending	Relates to school safety requirements, establishes the School Safety Program within the Department of Education to support, promote and enhance safe and effective learning environments for all students by supporting the costs of placing school resource officers, juvenile probation officers, school counselors and school social workers on school campuses and by supporting the costs of implementing a policy to limit the use of cell phones in school classrooms.
Arkansas	H 1082	Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act	Pending	Creates the state Children and Teens Online Privacy Act; provides support for the internal operations of the website, online service, operations of the website, online service, online application, or mobile application of the operator, excluding any activity relating to induvial-specific advertising to children or teen.
Arkansas	H 1083	Arkansas Kids Online Safety Act	Pending	Provides that a covered platform shall take reasonable measures in the design and operation of any product, service, or feature that the platform knows is used by minors to avoid any heightened risk of harm to minors, including anxiety, depression, and suicidal behaviors; provides that parental tools provided by a covered platform shall include the ability to manage a minors privacy and account settings; creates the Kids Online Safety Council; provides for filter bubble transparency requirements.
Arkansas	H 1726	Kids Online Safety	Pending	Creates the state Kids Online Safety Act. Provides that a covered platform shall take reasonable measures in the design and operation of any product, service, or feature that the platform knows is used by minors to avoid any heightened risk of harm to minors, including anxiety, depression, and suicidal behaviors; provides that parental tools provided by a covered platform shall include the ability to manage a minors privacy and account settings; creates the Kids Online Safety Council; provides for filter bubble transparency requirements.
Arkansas	S 427	Offense of Promoting Prostitution	Pending	Concerns the offense of promoting prostitution; penalizes a business involved in promoting prostitution, including online platforms, digital spaces, or any other medium.
Arkansas	S 142	Bell to Bell No Cell Act	Enacted	Amends the requirements for public school discipline policies with regard to student use of personal electronic devices, provides that each public school district and open enrollment public charter school shall establish a policy and exemptions concerning the possession and use by a student of a personal electronic device during the school day, provides that each district and charter school shall submit its policy and exemptions to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education for review.
California	A 235	Pupils: Use of Smartphones	Pending	Provides that existing law requires the governing board of school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school to develop and adopt a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of smartphones while the pupils are at a school site. Requires the policy to limit or prohibit the use of smartphones to be a scheduled based restriction policy or a full day restriction policy.
California	A 392	Pornographic Internet Websites: Consent	Pending	Prohibits a person who operates a pornographic internet website from knowingly allowing a user to upload sexually explicit content, as defined, to the pornographic internet website unless the user has submitted to the operator a statement, under penalty of perjury, that any individual depicted in the sexually explicit content is at least 18 years of age and has consented to the sexually explicit content being uploaded to the internet.
California	A 621	Deepfake Pornography	Pending	Revises and recasts the provision pertaining to deepfake pornography to apply to digitized sexually explicit material on internet websites or mobile applications in which the depicted individual is at least 18 years of age and would additionally grant a cause of action to that depicted individual against a person who knowingly or recklessly facilitates, aids, or abets conduct prohibited by that provision.
California	A 940	Privacy: Minors	Pending	Makes nonsubstantive changes to existing law requiring an operator of an internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application (website) directed to minors or an operator of a website that has actual knowledge that a minor is using its website to take certain actions, including permitting a minor who is a registered user of the operator's website to remove or, if the operator prefers, to request and obtain removal of, content or information posted on the operator's website by the user.
California	A 1064	Leading Ethical AI Development (LEAD) for Kids Act	Pending	Enacts the Leading Ethical AI Development (LEAD) for Kids Act, and would establish, and provide for the membership of, the LEAD for Kids Standards Board in the Government Operations Agency. Requires the board to adopt regulations governing, among other things, criteria for determining the level of estimated risk of a covered product based on an analysis that weighs the likelihood and severity of reasonably foreseeable adverse impacts against the anticipated benefits of the covered product and denominating the risk levels, as prescribed. The act would define "covered product" to mean an artificial intelligence system that is intended to, or highly likely to, be used by children, pursuant to regulations adopted by the board.
California	ACR 14	Positive Parenting Awareness Month	Adopted	Designates the specified month as Positive Parenting Awareness Month in the State, which recognizes caregivers and parents are confronted with the surging mental health crisis, grappling with the harms and risks of social media and technology.
Colorado	H 1287	Social Media Tools for Minor Users Parents	Pending	Concerns tools to protect minor users of social media such as age verification, settings control and data protection. Deems the use of a design, algorithm, or feature to increase, sustain, or extend a minor user's engagement with, or use of, a social media platform to be processing that presents a heightened risk of harm to minors, as defined in existing law, and therefore subject to certain data analysis requirements.
Colorado	H 1135	Communication Devices in Schools	Pending	Requires, on or before a specified date, each institute charter school, district charter school, and a local board of education for its schools that are not district charter schools to adopt and implement a policy concerning student communication device possession and use during the school day, provides that, at a minimum, the policy must describe the prohibitions, if any, and exceptions, if any regarding student communication device possession and use during the school day.
Colorado	S 86	Protections for Users of Social Media	Pending	Concerns protections for users of social media; establishes certain requirements for social media companies and social media platforms in order to protect users. Requires a social media company to annually make publicly available a report that includes, for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company, certain data concerning how minor users used the social media platform, including a description of all product experiments that were conducted on 1,000 or more minor users; among other requirements.
Connecticut	H 5271	Gaming Advertising	Pending	Provides that advertising, marketing and other promotional materials published, aired, displayed or disseminated by or on behalf of any gaming entity licensee shall not be published, aired, displayed or disseminated on the campus of any constituent unit of the State System of Public Higher Education, or on any website, online service, mobile application or social media platform established or maintained by or on behalf of any constituent unit of the State System of Public Higher Education.
Connecticut	H 5474	Use of Social Media Platforms	Pending	Concerns the use of social media platforms by minors; requires the owner of a social media platform to incorporate an online safety center into, and establish a cyberbullying policy for, the owner's social media platform; redefines heightened risk of harm to minors to include processing minors' personal data in a manner that presents any reasonably foreseeable risk of harm to minors' physical or mental health; provides additional requirements for controllers of online services relating to minors.
Connecticut	H 6181	Establishment of Blocked Trust Accounts	Failed	Requires the establishment of blocked trust accounts for certain minors; requires any parent or guardian who receives income from the creation of online content featuring a minor in such parent or guardian's care to establish a blocked trust account, which shall be accessible to such minor when such minor turns eighteen years of age.
Connecticut	H 6479	Social Media	Pending	Concerns minors and social media; prohibits any social media algorithm that targets any individual younger than seventeen years of age, including, but not limited to, by tracking such individual's age or telephone number; prohibits inclusion of a continuous feed in the social media account of any individual younger than 17 years of age.
Connecticut	H 6923	Use of Smart Devices in Schools	Pending	Concerns that the use of smart devices in schools, requires local and regional boards of education to adopt a policy limiting the use of smart devices by students in school.
Connecticut	S 533	Prohibition of the Use of Smart Phones	Pending	Relates to the prohibition of the use of smart phones in elementary and middle schools, requires the Department of Education to adopt regulations prohibiting the use of smart phones by students in the specified grades during the school day.
Connecticut	S 539	Student Cell Phone Use in Schools During School Hours	Pending	Limit student cell phone use in schools during school hours requires local and regional boards of education to adopt policies limiting the use of cell phones by students in the specified grades during the regular school day, limits the use of cell phones to foster a distraction free learning environment.
Connecticut	S 580	Use of Cellular Mobile Telephone in Schools	Pending	Relates to the establishment of a model policy banning the use of cellular mobile telephones in schools, requires the Department of Education to establish a model policy banning the use of cellular mobile telephones during the school day for students in the specified grades.
Connecticut	SB 1295	Social Media Platforms and Online Services Products	Pending	Concerns social media platforms and online services, products and features; requires the owner of a social media platform to incorporate an online safety center into, and establish a cyberbullying policy for, the owner's social media platform; redefines heightened risk of harm to minors to include processing minors' personal data in a manner that presents any reasonably foreseeable risk of harm to minors' physical or mental health.
Connecticut	S 1338	Deletion of Minors Money Sharing Application Accounts	Pending	Concerns the deletion of minors' money sharing application accounts; establishes requirements concerning the deletion of minors' money sharing application accounts.
Delaware	None
District of Columbia (D.C.)	B 73	Heads Up Distraction-Free Learning	Pending	Directs local education agencies to adopt and implement a personal wireless communication device policy that prohibits a student from using a wireless communication device during the full school day.
Florida	H 931	Online Access To Materials Harmful To Minors	Pending	Requires developer and covered manufacturer to, beginning on specified date, make specific determinations about covered applications and user, provide certain notices, and provide certain features to parents and developers; provides requirements for devices sold before specified date; requires application store to establish nondiscriminatory practices; provides for enforcement actions by attorney general; provides affirmative defense; provides limitation on liability for covered manufacturer.
Florida	H 949	Wireless Communications Devices on School Grounds	Pending	Prohibits students from using wireless communications devices during the school day. Rather than during instructional times, requires district school boards to designate locations within school buildings from students to use wireless communications devices during school day.
Florida	H 1161	Removal of Altered Sexual Depictions	Pending	Creates “Brooke’s Law”; defines covered platform; requires covered platforms to establish process for removal of altered sexual depictions posted without consent of identifiable person. Provides requirements for such process; requires notice; provides immunity for good faith compliance; prohibits unreasonable failure to comply; provides remedies; provides exceptions.
Florida	H 1503	Harm To Minors	Pending	Requires manufacturers of tablets or smartphones to manufacture devices with filters enabled upon activation of device in this state; provides civil and criminal liability; authorizes attorney general, parents, and guardians to bring certain actions; provides for damages and criminal penalties; increases criminal penalties for certain acts involving minors; revises definition of term sexual offender.
Florida	S 1084	Sexual Cyberharassment	Pending	Defines the terms digitally forged intimate image and intimate image; revises the definition of the term sexually cyber harass; provides criminal penalties for persons who recklessly, rather than willfully and maliciously, sexually cyber harass other persons; provides criminal penalties for persons who commit the offense of sexual cyber harassment with a specified intent or purpose.
Florida	S 1296	Use of Wireless Communications Devices in Schools	Pending	Requires the Commissioner of Education to coordinate with school districts selected by the Department of Education to implement a policy for a specified school year prohibiting the use of cell phones while on school grounds or engaged in certain activities off school grounds, requires the department to provide a report to the Legislature before a specified date, provides requirements for the report.
Florida	S 1400	Removal of Altered Sexual Depictions	Pending	Cites this act as Brookes Law; requires covered platforms to establish a process by a specified date for removal of altered sexual depictions posted without the consent of the identifiable person; provides immunity for good faith compliance.
Florida	S 1438	Online Access To Materials Harmful To Minors	Pending	Requires a developer to, beginning on a specified date, make specific determinations about covered applications, provide notice to application stores about such applications, and provide certain features for parents to protect a user that is a child; requires a covered manufacturer to, beginning on a specified date, take certain steps to determine specified information about the user, provide certain notices, and provide developers of covered applications with a specified means to verify the age of a user.
Georgia	H 340	Distraction Free Education Act	Pending	Relates to elementary and secondary education, so as to enact the Distraction-Free Education Act, requires local school systems and public schools to enact policies and procedures for use of personal electronic devices at school and school sponsored events by students in kindergarten through eighth grade, provides for permissible student use of personal electronic devices, authorizes the Department of Education to provide guidance and technical assistance, prohibits certain waivers.
Georgia	H 418	Child Performer Empowerment and Protection Act	Pending	Requires the establishment of blocked trust accounts for minors rendering artistic or creative services in this state; 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 such accounts for minors engaged in online content creation; provides for civil actions and damages.
Hawaii	H 485	Schools Cell Phone Use Policy	Pending	Establishes a Department of Education statewide policy for cell phone use in all department schools to ensure clear and enforceable guidelines and foster an environment conducive to learning.
Hawaii	H 566	Minors Addictive Content Protections	Pending	Protects minors from addictive content by imposing special requirements for operators regarding consent, notifications, and age verification; protects minors from having their online personal data processed without parental consent.
Hawaii	H 623	Students Cell Phone Use Policy	Pending	Requires the Board of Education to adopt a policy that bans the use of phones and related devices by students during school hours.
Hawaii	H 1195	Student Cell Phone Use	Pending	Requires the Department of Education, prohibits cell phone use during the instructional day, prohibits student access to social media through the school’s internet, implements a social media education campaign, creates exemptions for students, requires accommodations, emergency situations and teacher authorizations.
Hawaii	H 1198	Minors Internet Safety	Pending	Establishes civil liability for any commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally; publishes or distributes materially harmful to minors without following certain age verification requirements.
Hawaii	H 1212	Minors Internet Safety	Pending	Requires any commercial entity that knowingly publishes pornographic material on an internet website that is accessible to persons in the state; uses an age verification system; ensures that the pornographic material is not accessed by a minor.
Hawaii	H 1124	Student Cell Phone Use	Pending	Requires the Department of Education to prohibit cell phone use during the instructional day, prohibit student access to social media through the school’s internet, and implement a social media education campaign, creates exemptions for students requiring accommodations, emergency situations and teacher authorizations.
Hawaii	H 1303	Students Cellular Phones Use	Pending	Requires each public school to implement a policy to prohibit students from using cellular phones and other wireless communication devices by students during school hours, subject to exceptions for education, health and emergencies.
Hawaii	H 1343	Students Phones Use	Pending	Requires the Board of Education to adopt a policy that bans the use of phones and related devices by students during school hours.
Hawaii	H 1458	Social Media Advertising Revenue Taxes	Pending	Directs the Department of Taxation to apply the state corporate income tax to advertising revenue earned by major social media platforms if the revenue is derived from content created within the state or from audiences located in the state; establishes the Broadband and Digital Equity Special Fund to receive those revenues to fund initiatives expanding broadband access and local journalism initiatives; appropriates funds.
Hawaii	S 684	Students Cell Phones	Pending	Requires the Board of Education to adopt administrative rules to ban usage of cell phones at Department of Education schools.
Hawaii	S 1264	Students Use of Phones	Pending	Requires the Board of Education to adopt a policy that bans the use of phones and related devices by students during school hours.
Hawaii	S 1544	Students Cellular Phones Use	Pending	Requires each public school to implement a policy to prohibit students from using cellular phones and other wireless communication devices during school hours, subject to exceptions for education, health, and emergencies.
Hawaii	S 1542	App Store Child Safety	Pending	Requires app store providers to determine the age category for each of their users in the state and verify their age; provides a mechanism for parents to block minors from downloading unsuitable apps; obtains parental consent before allowing a minor to use their app store or download and purchase apps; requires certain app store providers to provide parents with a mechanism to set filters and usage limits for minors; requires certain app store providers to display age ratings and content.
Idaho	H 229	Education	Pending	Adds to existing law to provide for a wireless electronic communications devices policy.
Idaho	H 275	Internet Filtering for Students	Pending	Amends and repeals existing law to provide for local school boards require internet filtering and to remove provisions regarding digital library resources and wireless technology standards.
Idaho	S 1032	Distraction Free Learning	Enacted	Establishes provisions regarding distraction-free learning, provides that, no later than the specified date, every local school board and public charter school shall adopt a policy governing the use of electronic communications devices by students in school buildings and on school grounds or premises during school hours, provides that every local school board and public charter school shall make the policy it adopts publicly available and display such policy prominently on its public website.
Idaho	S 1158	Child Safety	Pending	Adds to existing law to establish provisions requiring certain internet filters on devices used by children.
Idaho	S 1168	Standard Protection For All Resources On Kids Devices	Pending	Adds to existing law to establish the Standard Protection For All Resources on Kids' Devices Act to protect minors from accessing or downloading harmful content. Requires internet filtering on certain devices. Establishes provisions regarding manufacturer and developer liability. Establishes requirements for app store platforms.
Illinois	H 1103	Online Age Verification for Material Harmful to Minors	Pending	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 or governmental .
Illinois	H 1590	Civil Liability for Unsolicited Intimate Images Act	Pending	Creates the Civil Liability for Unsolicited Intimate Images Act; provides that any person specified years of age who knowingly and intentionally transmits obscene material by computer or other electronic means to the computer or electronic communication device of another person specified years of age commits a trespass and is liable to the recipient of the obscene material for actual damages or specified amount, whichever is greater, in addition to reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
Illinois	H 2964	School Code	Pending	Amends the School Code, provides that a school board shall establish appropriate rules and disciplinary procedures for governing the use or possession of cellular radio telecommunications devices by a student, including rules that restrict the use of cellular radio telecommunication devices during instructional time, provides that a school board may create exceptions for school-cased emergencies, individual student and family emergencies, and individualized education.
Illinois	H 2975	School Code	Pending	Amends the School Code, requires a school board to prohibit a student from using a cellular telephone in a school or on school property, provides that the restriction shall not apply during lunch, recess, passing periods, or emergency situations, repeals provisions allowing a school board to establish rules and disciplinary procedures governing the use or possession of cellular radio telecommunication devices by a student.
Illinois	H 3030	Unlawful Publications of Obscene and Harmful Depictions	Pending	Creates the Removal of Unlawful Publications of Obscene and Harmful Depictions On Social Media Platforms Act; provides that, following a report to a social media platform that an obscene depiction or otherwise harmful depiction by computer has been unlawfully published on the social media platform, the subject report must be promptly investigated for credibility, and if deemed credible, the subject image must be promptly removed by the operator of the social media platform within 24 hours.
Illinois	H 3488	School Wireless Communication Device Policy	Pending	Amends the School Code, provides that, on or before the 2026-2026 school year, each school board shall adopt and implement a wireless communication device policy that prohibits a students from using a wireless communication device during instructional time, except as otherwise provided, and includes guidance for secure and accessible storage of wireless devices during instructional time, provides that the policy may not prohibit a student from using a wireless communication device during instructional time.
Illinois	S 51	Age Appropriate Design Code Act	Pending	Creates the Age-Appropriate Design Code 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; provides that a business shall complete a data protection impact assessment on or before specified date, for any online service, product, or feature.
Illinois	S 1873	School Code	Pending	Amends the School Code, provides that, no later than a specified amount, all school boards, adopts a policy that, prohibits a student from using personal wireless communication devices during instructional time, prevents student access to social media platforms through the use of internet access provided by a school district, allows a school board, prohibits student use of personal wireless communication devices during instructional time through any method it deems appropriate.
Illinois	S 2082	Adult Content Age Verification Act	Pending	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.
Illinois	S 2316	Parental Consent for Social Media Act	Pending	Creates the Parental Consent for Social Media Act; provides that a social media company shall not permit an user who is a minor to be an account holder on the social media company's social media platform unless the minor has the express consent of a parent or legal guardian; provides that a social media company shall verify the age of an account holder using a third-party vendor to perform reasonable age verification before allowing access to the social media company's social media platform.
Illinois	S 2427	School Code	Pending	Amends the School Code, provides that, on or before the 2026-2027 school year, each school board shall adopt and implement a wireless communication device policy that prohibits a student from using a wireless communication device during instructional time, except as otherwise provided, included guidance for secure and accessible storage of wireless devices during instructional time.
Indiana	H 1321	Minors' Social Media Use	Pending	Relates to social media use by minors; provides that a social media service may not allow any state resident who is a minor; holds 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 minor's 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, and an state resident.
Indiana	S 11	Minor Access and Use of Social Media	Pending	Requires a social media operator to restrict a minor user’s viewing of social media without first obtaining verifiable parental consent for the minor user; defines minor user; allows the attorney general to bring an action against a social media operator that fails to implement a verifiable parental consent method and issue a civil investigative demand if the attorney general has reasonable cause to believe that any person is engaged in a violation; provides for injunctive relief and civil penalties.
Indiana	S 359	Student Well Being and Resiliency	Pending	Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with the Office of the Secretary of Family and Social Services, to approve and make available student mental well-being resources which include content on social media accounts for certain schools; requires the governing body of a school corporation or the equivalent authority for a charter school to publish and publicly post the approved student well-being resources.
Iowa	H 62	Obscene Material Available on Devices	Pending	Creates civil liability for commercial entities who publish or distribute obscene material on the internet that is accessed by minors. The bill requires a commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally publishes or distributes obscene material on the internet to use reasonable age verification methods to verify that the individual attempting to access the material is not a minor. A commercial entity that is found in violation shall be civilly liable to an individual for damages resulting from a minor’s access to the material, including court costs and reasonable attorney fees as ordered by the court. The bill does not impose civil liability on a provider or user of an interactive computer service on the internet.
Iowa	H 273	Student Access to Personal Electronic Devices in School	Pending	Relates to student access to personal electronic devices in schools.
Iowa	H 278	Minors Accounts on Social Media Platforms	Pending	Relates to parental authorization for minors to create accounts on social media platforms; provides civil penalties; includes applicability provisions.
Iowa	H 798	Parental Authorization for Social Media Accounts	Pending	Relates to parental authorization for minors to create accounts on social media platforms; provides civil penalties; includes applicability provisions.
Iowa	H 826	Obscene Materials Involving Minors	Pending	Relates to obscene materials involving minors, and provides penalties. A person shall not knowingly produce, distribute, receive, or possess with the intent to distribute, or attempt to produce, distribute, receive, or possess with the intent to distribute, any obscene material involving a minor.
Iowa	H 864	Commercial Entities Who Distribute Obscene Material	Pending	The bill makes a covered platform liable if the covered platform fails to perform reasonable age verification of individuals attempting to access obscene material published or distributed by the covered platform.
Iowa	S 207	Civil Liability for Commercial Entities	Pending	The bill makes a covered platform liable if the covered platform fails to perform reasonable age verification of individuals attempting to access obscene material published or distributed by the covered platform and the failure allows access by a minor to the obscene material.
Iowa	S 370	Electronic Devices in Schools	Pending	Relates to electronic devices in schools, including student access during instructional hours, school safety plans, and instruction related to the efforts of social media in grades six through eight, includes effective date provisions.
Iowa	S 443	Entities Who Publish or Distribute Obscene Material	Pending	The bill makes a covered platform liable if the covered platform fails to perform reasonable age verification of individuals attempting to access obscene material published or distributed by the covered platform.
Kansas	H 2186	Use of Privately Owned Electronic Communication Devices	Pending	Relates to requiring school districts, prohibits the use of privately owned electronic communication devices during school hours, prohibits students from using school district computers or devices to access social media platforms.
Kansas	H 2259	Use of Personal Communication Devices	Pending	Relates to requiring school districts to adopt policies to limit the use of personal electronic communications devices during school hours and requiring the state board of education to designate a period of time for social media awareness and develop goals and materials relating thereto.
Kansas	S 154	Use of Privately Owned Electronic Communication Devices	Pending	Relates to requiring school districts to prohibit the use of privately owned electronic communication devices during school hours and students from using school district computers or devices to access social media platforms.
Kansas	S 208	Technology in Public Schools	Pending	Provides that each local school district shall establish a policy regarding student internet access that shall include, but not be limited to, parental consent for student internet use, teacher supervision of student computer use, and auditing procedures to determine whether education technology is being used for the purpose of accessing social media or sexually explicit or other objectionable material.
Kentucky	H 47	Sexual Extortion	Pending	Establishes the crime of sexual extortion as a felony; provides for enhancements to penalties; establishes a civil cause of action for sexual extortion; includes sexual extortion in the definition of sex crime; requires superintendents of local school districts to notify students in grades six and above and parents and guardians of all students of the crime of sexual extortion.
Kentucky	S 73	Sexual Extortion	Enacted	Specifies when a person is guilty of sexual extortion; provides that sexual extortion is a Class A misdemeanor, with certain exceptions; provides for personal liability for actual and punitive damages, court costs, and reasonable attorneys fees; requires each public school with instructional spaces for students in specified grades to display a sign that contains, among other things, a description of sexual extortion and contact information for law enforcement and a national suicide prevention hotline.
Louisiana	None
Maine	H 411	Effects of Artificial Intelligence Cellular Telephones	Pending	Studies the effects of artificial intelligence, cellular telephones and social media on public education.
Maine	H 530	Social Media Use By Minors Under 16 Years of Age	Pending	Regulates social media use by minors under 16 years of age.
Maryland	H 394	Distribution of Obscene Materials to Minors	Pending	Establishes that a commercial entity that distributes obscene material to minors on the internet from certain websites is liable for certain damages; prohibits a commercial entity or third party that performs a certain age verification of an individual from retaining any identifying information of an individual under certain circumstances.
Maryland	H 57	Boards of Education	Pending	Relates to county boards of education, concerns student cellular phone use policy, provides establishment.
Maryland	H 147	Student Technology Use Policy	Pending	Concerns county boards of education, relates to elementary and middle schools, relates to student technology use policy. Requires certain county boards of education to develop and adopt a policy that prohibits elementary and middle school students from using a cellular phone or personal electronic device during the school day except for certain circumstances.
Maryland	H 192	No Distracted Learning Act	Pending	Concerns country boards of education, establishes a student cellular phone use policy, relates to the No Distracted Learning Act.
Maryland	H 630	Phone Free Schools Act	Pending	Requires each county board of education to develop and implement, not later the school year, a policy limiting the use of acellular phone by a student during the school day, prohibits the policy from restricting a student’s use of acellular phone for any purpose documented in the student’s individualized education program, to monitor or address a student’s documented health issue, during an emergency event, or when directed by an educator or administrator for educational purposes.
Maryland	H 1179	Montgomery County Student Cellular Phone Policy	Failed	Requires the Montogomery County Board of Education to establish a policy limiting the use of cellular phone by a student during instructional time except under certain circumstances.
Maryland	H 1212	Obscene Material Device Filters	Pending	Requires each device, tablet, or smart phone manufactured on or after a specified date, activated in the state to enable a certain filter to prevent minors from accessing obscene material; prohibits a certain person from deactivating the filter; provides that a manufacturer of a device and certain persons are subject to civil and criminal liability for certain conduct related to device filters; authorizes the attorney general to take certain actions against persons who violate the act.
Maryland	H 1248	Revenge Pornography and Intimate Visual Depictions	Pending	Requires certain online platforms to establish a process for an individual or an individual's representative to provide certain notice of and request the disabling of access to or removal of certain visual depictions; requires a certain online platform to comply with a request under the act as soon as possible, but not later than 48 hours after receiving a request and to establish certain data logging requirements; alters the prohibition against revenge pornography.
Maryland	H 1316	Student Technology and Social Media Resource Guide	Pending	Requires the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the state Department of Education, to develop and publish a student technology and social media resource guide by the 2027-2028 school year; requires the Governor to include an appropriation of a specified amount for fiscal year 2027 and a specified amount for fiscal years 2028 and 2029 in the annual budget bill.
Maryland	S 29	Phone Free Schools Pilot Program	Pending	Establishes the Phone-Free Schools Pilot Program, requires the Carroll County and Montgomery County public school systems to develop and implement a policy that prohibits student cell phone use during the school day, subject to certain exceptions, requires the eligible school systems to submit a report on the effectiveness of the Pilot Program on or before a specified date.
Maryland	S 130	Student Cellular Device Use Policy	Pending	Requires each county board of education to develop and implement a policy that prohibits students from using a cellular device during instructional time during the school day, prohibits the policy from preventing a student from using a cellular device for any purpose documented in a student’s individualized education program, to monitor or address a student’s documented health issue, or for education purposes when directed by an educator or an administrator.
Maryland	S 368	Phone Free Schools Act	Pending	Requires each county board of education, develops and implements, not later than the 2026-2027 school year, a policy, limiting the use of a cellular phone by a student during the school day, prohibits the policy from restricting a student’s use of a cellular phone for any purpose documented in the student’s individualized education program, monitors or addresses a student’s documented health issue during an emergency event or when, directs by an educator or administrator for educational purposes.
Maryland	S 897	Student Technology and Social Media Resource Guide	Pending	Requires the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the state Department of Education, to develop and distribute a student technology and social media resource guide beginning in the 2027-2028 school year with additional information included in successive years; requires the governor to include an appropriation of a specified amount for fiscal year 2027 and a specified amount for fiscal years 2028 and 2029 in the annual budget bill.
Massachusetts	H 98	Internet Privacy Rights for Children	Pending	Relates to internet privacy rights for children. Prohibits an operator of an internet web site, online service, online application or mobile application directed to minors to not market or advertise a product or a service described in subsection on its internet web site, online service, online application or mobile application directed to minors.
Massachusetts	H 574	Student Cell Phone Use	Pending	Provides that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education be authorized to establish a policy that provides for when a student’s use of a student’s cellphone.
Massachusetts	H 666	Use of Personal Electronic Devices on School Grounds	Pending	Relates to the use of personal electronic devices on school grounds.
Massachusetts	H 696	Presence of Students Phones in Schools and Classrooms	Pending	Relates to the presence of students’ phones in schools and classrooms and their effect on educational outcomes and student mental health.
Massachusetts	H 715	Use of Personal Electronic Devices by Students	Pending	Prohibits the use of personal electronic devices by students during the school day.
Massachusetts	H 720	Cell Phone or Other Personal Electronic Device Usage	Pending	Prohibits cell phone or other personal electronic device usage by students during the school day.
Massachusetts	H 1784	Enticement of Children Online	Pending	Relates to the enticement of children online.
Massachusetts	H 3126	Tax for Online Advertising	Pending	Establishes a tax for online advertising.
Massachusetts	H 3224	Tax for Online Advertising	Pending	Relates to establishing a tax for online advertising.
Massachusetts	HD 1338	Enticement of Children Online	Pending	Relates to the enticement of children online.
Massachusetts	HD 1695	Online Advertising Tax	Pending	Establishes a tax for online advertising.
Massachusetts	HD 3138	Tax for Online Advertising	Pending	Establishes a tax for online advertising.
Massachusetts	S 30	Children From Addictive Social Media Feeds	Pending	Protects children from addictive social media feeds.
Massachusetts	S 144	Interests of Minor Children Featured on Family Vlogs	Pending	Protects the interests of minor children featured on for-profit family vlogs.
Massachusetts	S 333	Use of Personal Electronic Devices in Schools	Pending	Prohibits the use of personal electronic devices in schools.
Massachusetts	S 335	Distraction Free Education for Youth	Pending	Promotes safe technology use and distraction-free education for youth.
Massachusetts	S 408	Best Management Practices for Wireless in Schools	Pending	Relates to best management practices for wireless in schools and public institutions of higher education.
Massachusetts	S 424	Use of Mobile Devices in Educational Institutions	Pending	Regulates the use of mobile communication devices in educational institutions.
Massachusetts	S 461	Electronic Devices and Social Media in Public Schools	Pending	Prohibits access to personal electronic devices and social media in public schools.
Michigan	H 4141	Communication Devices	Pending	Requires the board of a school district or board of directors of a public school academy to implement a wireless communications device policy.
Minnesota	H 48	Consumer Protection	Pending	Relates to consumer protection; prohibits certain social media algorithms that target children.
Minnesota	H 1434	Consumer Protection	Pending	Relates to consumer protection; requires age verification for websites with material harmful to minors; provides for enforcement by the attorney general; creates a private right of action.
Minnesota	H 1875	Consumer Protection	Pending	Relates to consumer protection; regulates the use of social media for minors ages 15 and younger; requires anonymous age verification for websites harmful to minors.
Minnesota	H 1895	Nudification Technology	Pending	Relates to commerce; prohibits access to nudification technology. Prohibits a person who owns or controls a website, application, software, or program to allow a user to access, download, or use the website to nudify an image or video.
Minnesota	S 508	Education Policy	Pending	Relates to education policy, restricts cell phone use in schools, appropriates money.
Minnesota	S 1119	Access to Nudification Technology	Pending	Relates to commerce; prohibits access to nudification technology. Prohibits a person who owns or controls a website, application, software, or program to allow a user to access, download, or use the website to nudify an image or video.
Minnesota	S 1528	Consumer Protection	Pending	Relates to commerce; prohibits access to nudification technology. Prohibits a person who owns or controls a website, application, software, or program to allow a user to access, download, or use the website to nudify an image or video.
Minnesota	S 1783	Nudification Technology	Pending	Relates to commerce; prohibits access to nudification technology. Prohibits a person who owns or controls a website, application, software, or program to allow a user to access, download, or use the website to nudify an image or video.
Minnesota	S 1857	Access Chatbots for Recreational Purposes	Pending	Relates to commerce; prohibits persons from allowing minors to access chatbots for recreational purposes; provides civil penalties.
Minnesota	S 2105	Consumer Protection	Pending	Relates to consumer protection; requires age verification for websites with material harmful to minors; provides for enforcement by the attorney general; creates a private right of action.
Minnesota	S 2614	Consumer Protection	Pending	Relates to consumer protection; regulates the use of social media for minors with specified ages and younger; requires anonymous age verification for websites harmful to minors.
Mississippi	H 167	Age Appropriate Policies on Phone Possession	Failed	Requires local school boards to develop and public schools located within the school district to implement age appropriate and developmentally appropriate policies relating to student cell phone possession and use on school property during the academic school day from bell to bell, specifies the minimum provisions to be contained in each school cell phone free education policy applicable to elementary, middle and high school students, prescribes exceptions to possession.
Mississippi	H 673	Local School Boards	Failed	Requires local school boards to develop and public schools located within the school district to implement age appropriate and developmentally appropriate policies relating to student cell phone possession and use on school property during the academic school day from bell to bell, specifies the minimum provisions to be contained in each school cell phone free education policy applicable to elementary, middle and high school students, prescribes exceptions to possession.
Mississippi	H 684	Age Appropriate Policies in Public Schools	Failed	Requires local school boards to develop and public schools located within the school district to implement age appropriate and developmentally appropriate policies relating to student cell phone possession and use on school property during the academic school day from bell to bell, specifies the minimum provisions to be contained in each school cell phone free education policy applicable to elementary, middle and high school students, prescribes exceptions to possession.
Mississippi	H 808	Internet Safety Policy for Students	Failed	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.
Mississippi	H 818	Local School Boards Age Appropriate Policies	Failed	Requires local school boards to develop and public schools located within the school district to implement age appropriate and developmentally appropriate policies relating to student cell phone possession and use on school property during the academic school day from bell to bell, specifies the minimum provisions to be contained in each school cell phone free education policy applicable to elementary, middle and high school students, prescribes exceptions to possession.
Mississippi	S 2151	Use of Cell Phone By Students During Class	Failed	Requires public school districts, public charter schools and certain state high schools to develop and adopt policies to ban the possession or restrict the use of cell phones by students during class or while under the supervision and control of an employee or employees of the school, provides for potential exceptions which allow students to possess or use cell phones under certain circumstances.
Mississippi	S 2324	Telecommunication or Electronic Harassment	Failed	Provides an aggravated penalty when a person commits a criminal act of telecommunication or electronic harassment or obscenity against a first responder or public safety telecommunicator.
Mississippi	S 2501	Child Sexual Exploitation	Failed	Penalizes certain entities that knowingly publish or distribute obscene material or material that promotes child sexual exploitation, or sell child sexual exploitation devices or images; defines terms; provides that any commercial entity that knowingly publishes or distributes obscene material or material that depicts, describes, or promotes child sexual exploitation, on the internet may be held civilly liable; provides a civil penalty and civil liability for any person who knowingly buys, sells, delivers.
Mississippi	S 2624	Schools Age Appropriate Policies	Failed	Requires local school boards to develop and public schools located within the school district to implement age appropriate and developmentally appropriate policies relating to student cell phone possession and use on school property during the academic school day from bell to bell, specifies the minimal provisions to be contained in each school cell phone free education policy applicable to elementary, middle and high school students, prescribes exceptions to possession.
Missouri	H 236	Civil Liability for Publishing or Distributing Material	Pending	Establishes provisions relating to civil liability for publishing or distributing material harmful to minors on the internet.
Missouri	H 306	Public School Districts and Charter Schools	Pending	Requires public school districts and charter schools to prevent use of electronic personal communications devices during regularly scheduled instructional activities.
Missouri	H 408	Student Use of Telecommunications Devices	Pending	Prohibits student use of telecommunications devices during regularly scheduled instructional activities.
Missouri	H 854	Public School Districts and Charter Schools	Pending	Relates to student electronic personal communications device usage, provides that each school district and charter school governing board shall adopt a written policy governing a student’s possession or use of an electronic personal communications device.
Missouri	H 462	School Policies Governing Obscene Materials	Pending	Requires schools to adopt school policies governing materials that are obscene or harmful to minors.
Missouri	H 832	Provisions of Child Labor Laws	Pending	Modifies provisions of child labor laws and provides additional employment requirements for children engaged in online content creation or vlogging.
Missouri	S 527	Rules for Adult Websites	Pending	Creates new provisions relating to adult websites.
Missouri	S 756	Regulation of Online Content Involving Minors	Pending	Creates provisions relating to regulation of online content involving minors.
Missouri	S 765	Obscene or Harmful Materials Accessible Minors	Pending	Prohibits obscene or harmful materials from being accessible to minors in public schools and charter schools.
Missouri	S 640	School Districts and Charter Schools	Pending	Requires school districts and charter schools to adopt written policies governing students’ use of electronic personal communications devices.
Montana	D 1729	Internet Distribution Penalties of Child Pornography	Pending	Creates penalties for the distribution of child pornography on the internet.
Montana	H 104	Power and Duties of Agents	Pending	Adds human trafficking, prostitution, and internet crimes against children to the list of offenses an agent appointed by the attorney general has concurrent jurisdiction to investigate; revises the powers and duties of agents; provides that internet crimes against children means the use of an electronic device or electronic communication to commit or facilitate the commission of a crime against a child, including, among others, sexual assault, sexual intercourse without consent, and indecent exposure.
Montana	H 392	Family Video Content Featuring Minor Children	Pending	Establishes the child digital protection act; revises laws related to the creation of profitable family video content featuring minor children; provides for trust contributions of profits made from video content featuring minor children; provides a right to request removal of content.
Montana	H 408	Electronic Devices Obscene Content Children Protect	Pending	Revises laws regarding minors' access to obscene content on devices via the internet; requires all devices activated in the state on specified date, to contain a filter to prevent a minor's access to obscene content; establishes liability for a device manufacturer that fails to enable device filters; establishes liability for a person who removes the filter from a minor's device and the minor uses the device to access obscene content; provides definitions; provides penalties.
Nebraska	LB 140	School Policies	Pending	Requires school policies relating to use of electronic communication devices by students.
Nebraska	L 504	Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act	Pending	Adopts the Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act.
Nevada	A 35	Pornography Involving Minors	Pending	Relates to crimes; prohibits a person from receiving, distributing, producing, possessing or accessing any obscene item or material which contains a depiction of a purported child engaging in sexual conduct; provides that a violation of this prohibition constitutes a sexual offense or a violent or sexual offense for the purposes of various statutes; establishes the preferred manner of referring to items or materials that depict or describe a minor engaging in certain sexual conduct; provides for a penalty.
Nevada	A 294	Use of the Internet by Minors	Pending	Revises provisions relating to the use of the internet by minors, including age-verification.
Nevada	S 63	Social Media Platforms	Pending	Relates to social media platforms; requires each social media platform to establish a system to verify the age of prospective users of the platform in the state; prohibits a social media platform from allowing certain minors in the state to use the social media platform; requires a social media platform to obtain the affirmative consent of a parent or legal guardian before authorizing certain minors in the state to use the social media platform.
New Hampshire	H 131	Personal Cell Phone Use in Schools	Pending	Requires school districts to adopt policies governing student cell phone use in schools.
New Hampshire	H 293	Minors Accessing Obscenity	Pending	Requires manufacturers of electronic tablets and smartphones to install filters on those devices that prevent minors from accessing obscene material; creates civil liability against a manufacturer that does not install filters in devices; creates civil and criminal liability against a manufacturer or person who disables a filter with the intent to allow a minor to access obscene material.
New Hampshire	H 324	Obscene or Harmful Sexual Materials in Schools	Pending	Prohibits material that is obscene or harmful to minors in schools; creates a procedure for removal and a cause of action.
New Hampshire	H 781	Cell Phone Free Education	Pending	Requires school districts to adopt policies establishing a cell phone-free education.
New Hampshire	LSR 598	Minors Accessing Obscenity	Pending	Prevents minors from accessing obscenity on certain electronic devices with internet access.
New Hampshire	S 263	Responsive Generative Communication	Pending	Criminalizes and creates a private right of action for the facilitation, encouragement, offer, solicitation or recommendation of certain acts or actions through a responsive generative communication to a child.
New Hampshire	S 206	Limit the Use of Cell Phones by Students	Pending	Requires school districts to adopt policies governing student cell phones use in schools.
New Jersey	A 408	Stop Social Media Censorship Act	Pending	Concerns the Stop Social Media Censorship Act; creates private right of action for users of social media websites whose political or religious speech has been deleted or censored by social media websites.
New Jersey	A 1580	Online Gaming Platforms Human Trafficking Prevention	Pending	Requires the Commission on Human Trafficking to identify methods to prevent human trafficking through online gaming platforms.
New Jersey	A 1883	Social Media Platforms Child Safety	Pending	Prohibits social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause child users to become addicted to platform.
New Jersey	A 2367	Social Media Dangers Public Awareness Campaign	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 2933	Temporary Unit to Monitor Certain Social Media Posts	Pending	Appropriates a specified amount to Division of State Police establishing temporary unit to monitor certain social media posts and provide support to local police.
New Jersey	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	A 3918	Schools Social Media Harassment Guidance and Training	Pending	Requires development of guidance and training to address social media in harassment, intimidation, and bullying in schools; revises student learning standards to include instruction on social media in school bullying.
New Jersey	A 4101	Social Media Fraudulent Account Reporting	Pending	Requires social media companies to establish toll-free telephone number for NJ account holders to report fraudulent account actions.
New Jersey	A 4146	Online Material Age Verification Requirements	Pending	Requires entities to verify age of persons accessing certain online material and prohibits minors from accessing certain online material.
New Jersey	A 4302	Minors Working as Vloggers Compensation	Pending	Requires family member to compensate minors working as vlogger in certain circumstances.
New Jersey	A 4479	Social Media Platforms Nonconsensual Intimate Images	Pending	Requires social media platforms to cooperate with nonprofit organization initiatives to remove nonconsensual intimate images or videos, including those of minors.
New Jersey	A 4635	Online Video Blogs Children Rights and Privacy	Pending	Protects monetary rights and privacy of minor children featured in online video blogs.
New Jersey	A 4643	Social Media Child Endangerment	Pending	Creates penalty for child endangerment via use of social media.
New Jersey	A 4644	Minor Related Social Media Accounts	Pending	Requires social media companies to take certain actions concerning accounts maintained by or featuring minors.
New Jersey	A 4664	Social Media Platforms Child Protections	Pending	This bill requires social media companies to develop and use on its social media platform: (1) algorithms that detect suspicious patterns and flag potentially inappropriate activity, including adult interactions with minors, private messaging frequency between adults and minors, and attempts to establish inappropriate relationships with minors; and (2) a real-time monitoring system that continuously analyzes social media content and identifies potentially inappropriate activity involving minors, including an automated reporting mechanism that promptly reports identified instances to the appropriate authorities.
New Jersey	A 4738	Social Media Content Moderation Practices	Pending	Establishes requirements for social media companies concerning content moderation practices; establishes cause of action against social media companies for violation of content moderation practices.
New Jersey	A 4855	Students Cell Phone and Social Media Use	Pending	Concerns policies governing student use of cell phones and social media platforms in schools.
New Jersey	A 4882	Schools Cell Phone and Social Media Policies	Pending	Requires a cell phone and social media policy to be developed by the Department of Education and adopted in schools.
New Jersey	A 5205	Student Use of Cell Phones and Social Media	Pending	Concerns policies governing student use of cell phones and social media platforms in public schools.
New Jersey	A 5282	Social Media and Cell Phone Addiction Instruction	Pending	Requires school districts to include instruction on risks associated with social media and cell phone addiction in grades 6 through 12.
New Jersey	A 5330	Schools Cell Phone and Social Media Policy	Pending	Requires public school to adopt cell phone and social media policy based on guidelines developed by Department of Education.
New Jersey	AR 115	Kids Online Safety Act	Pending	Urges Congress and President of the United States to enact the Kids Online Safety Act.
New Jersey	S 1142	Cyber Harassment of Minor Criminalization	Pending	Broadens law that criminalizes cyber-harassment of minor.
New Jersey	S 1336	Social Media Websites and Content Moderation	Pending	Establishes certain requirements for social media websites concerning content moderation practices; establishes cause of action against social media websites for violation of content moderation practices.
New Jersey	S 1437	Law Enforcement Social Media Protocols	Pending	This bill requires the state police and local police departments that use social media to post information regarding missing or wanted persons to develop and implement a protocol for the posting of that information and for the removal of the posting no later than six months after the issue is resolved.
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	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.
New Jersey	S 3017	Social Media Companies Fraudulent Account Reporting	Pending	Requires social media companies to establish toll free telephone number for the state account holders to report fraudulent account actions.
New Jersey	S 3183	Minors Working as Vloggers Compensation	Pending	Requires family member to compensate minors working as vlogger in certain circumstances.
New Jersey	S 3568	Student Use of Cell Phones and Social Media	Failed	Concerns policies governing student use of cell phones and social media platforms in schools.
New Jersey	S 3583	Cell Phone and Social Media Use by Students	Pending	Concerns policies governing student use of cell phones and social media platforms in public schools.
New Jersey	S 3678	Distraction Free Schools Grant Program	Pending	Establishes the Distraction Free Schools Grant Program; appropriates monies.
New Jersey	S 3695	Schools Cell Phone and Social Media Policy	Pending	Requires a cell phone and social media policy to be developed by the Department of Education and adopted in schools; provides that in developing the policy, the Commissioner of Education shall consult with interested stakeholders in the education community, including the New Jersey Education Association, the New Jersey School Boards Association, and the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association, to ensure that the policies are responsive to the needs of students, parents, and teaching staff members.
New Jersey	S 3901	Social Media and Cell Phone Addiction Instruction	Pending	Requires school districts to include instruction on risks associated with social media and cell phone addiction in grades 6 through 12.
New Jersey	SR 75	Kids Online Safety Act	Pending	Urges Congress and President of the United States to enact the Kids Online Safety Act.
New Mexico	H 44	Harmful Material Protections	Pending	Enacts the protection of minors from distribution of harmful material act; defines terms; authorizes liability; creates a private right of action. Requires a commercial entity shall use a reasonable age verification method before allowing access to a website on which more than one-third of the content is material that is harmful to minors.
New Mexico	S 11	Anti Distraction Policy Schools	Pending	Relates to public education, requires that each school district and charter school adopt and implement a policy for the use of wireless communication devices by students in public schools, requires the public education department to provide policy guidelines.
New York	A 770	Use of Cellular Telephones During Classroom Instruction	Pending	Requires school districts to adopt a policy prohibiting the use of cellular telephones during classroom instruction, requires the Department of Education to adopt a model policy for use by school districts.
New York	A 1624	Students Media Literacy Standards	Pending	Creates a set of media literacy standards for students in grades kindergarten through 12 which focus on internet safety, civility, and digital citizenship.
New York	A 3929	Social Media Influencers	Pending	Requires social media influencers to disclose when they share on social media that they are being paid by a campaign; authorizes the state board of elections to promulgate certain regulations.
New York	A 3946	Age Verification for Internet Pornography Websites	Pending	Requires age verification for internet pornography websites; imposes a specified amount for penalty per day for violations; provides exemptions for news organizations.
New York	A 5114	Online Products	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, and removing features which inappropriately amplify the level of engagement a child user has with the online product.
New York	A 5346	Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms	Pending	Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications; directs the Commissioner of Mental Health; designs the warning label.
New York	A 5555	Model Codes of Conduct on School Property	Pending	Directs the Department of Education to establish model codes of conduct on school property regarding cellphone use.
New York	A 5954	Possessing Cellphones During Classroom Instruction	Pending	Prohibits students from possessing cellphones during classroom instruction.
New York	S 140	Wireless Communications Devices on School Property	Pending	Prohibits students from accessing their wireless communications devices on school property, unless authorized for classroom use, prohibits students from accessing social media platforms through the use of internet access provided by the school district, except when expressly directed for class instruction.
New York	S 927	Regulation of Social Media Companies	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 1332	Parental Controls for Internet Services	Pending	Offers parental controls for internet services; allows the attorney general; brings a civil action against any internet provider; violates certain requirements.
New York	S 2437	Social Media Influencers	Pending	Requires social media influencers to disclose when they share on social media that they are being paid by a campaign; authorizes the state board of elections to promulgate certain regulations.
New York	S 3591	Age Verification for Internet Pornography Websites	Pending	Requires age verification for internet pornography websites; imposes a $50,000 penalty per day for violations; provides exemptions for news organizations.
New York	S 4276	Digital Fairness Act	Pending	Requires the regents to ensure that the course of instruction in grades K-12 includes a component on digital literacy, digital privacy and the proper and safe use of the internet. Requires instruction that includes internet safety program components.
New York	S 4561	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 4562	Internet Platform Disclosure to Parents	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 4600	New York 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.
New York	S 4609	Children's Online Safety Act	Pending	Establishes the New York children's online safety act; requires operators of covered platforms to conduct age verification to determine whether a user is a covered minor; requires operators of covered platforms to use certain default privacy settings for covered minors; requires operators of covered platforms to require parental approval of certain activity related to a covered minor's covered platform account.
North Carolina	H 87	Cell Phones	Pending	Develops policies to restrict student use of cell phones in public schools, provides that governing bodies of public school units shall adopt a cell phone-free education policy to eliminate or severely restrict student access to cell phones during instructional time, provides that at the beginning of each school year, governing bodies of public school units shall notify parents of all students enrolled in the public school unit of the Cell Phone-free Education Policy.
North Carolina	H 301	Social Media Protections	Pending	Protects certain minors from harmful online social media.
North Carolina	S 55	Wireless Communication Devices	Pending	Requires regulation of student use of wireless communication devices during instructional time.
North Dakota	H 1160	Prohibition of Student Cellular Telephone	Pending	Relates to the prohibition of student cellular telephone use during instructional time.
North Dakota	H 1561	Commercial Entity's Liability	Pending	Relates to a commercial entity's liability for publishing or distributing sexual material harmful to a minor; provides a penalty; provides for application.
North Dakota	H 1593	Publishing or Distributing Sexual Material	Failed	Relates to a commercial entity's liability for publishing or distributing sexual material harmful to a minor; provides a penalty; provides for application.
North Dakota	S 2300	Mandatory Secure Storage of a Student	Pending	Relates to the mandatory secure storage of a student’s personal electronic device during the school day, provides an appropriation.
North Dakota	S 2307	Definition of a Public Library	Pending	Relates to the definition of a public library, required safety policies and technology protection measures, and the attorney general's review of public libraries, school districts, and state agencies for compliance with statutes protecting minors from explicit sexual material; relates to obscenity control; provides for a report to the legislative management; provides a penalty.
North Dakota	S 2354	School District Wireless Communication Device Policies	Pending	Relates to school district wireless communication device policies.
North Dakota	S 2380	Commercial Entitys Liability	Pending	Relates to a commercial entity’s liability for publishing or distributing mature content; provides a penalty; provides an effective date.
N. Mariana Islands	None
Ohio	None
Oklahoma	H 1275	Social Media	Pending	Prohibits minors under the specified age from being an account holder on certain social media platforms; prohibits minors older than a specified age from being an account holder on certain social media platforms without express consent of a parent or legal guardian; requires verification of an account holders age; permits the use of third party vendors to verify age; prohibits social media platforms accessed by minors from engaging in certain activities.
Oklahoma	H 1276	Schools	Pending	Relates to schools, requires district boards of education to adopt a policy prohibiting student cell phone and personal electronic device use under certain circumstances, requires exceptions for emergencies, allows board approval to opt out of prohibition, requires annual approval of alternative policies.
Oklahoma	H 1277	Schools and Phone Free Spaces	Pending	Relates to schools, directs the State Board of Education to distribute grants to incentivize phone free spaces, provides for the application process, prescribes the selection of grant recipients, provides for the use of grant funds, authorizes certain negotiations and contracts.
Oklahoma	H 1388	Children	Pending	Relates to children; provides definitions; directs covered entities to complete and review impact assessments; requires covered entities to provide impact assessments to attorney general; requires certain default privacy settings; directs covered entities to publicly provide certain information in clear language suited to age of children accessing product; requires entity provide certain tools.
Oklahoma	H 1762	Children	Pending	Relates to children; provides definitions; directs covered entities; completes and reviews impact assessments; requires covered entities; provides impact assessments to Attorney General; requires certain default privacy settings; directs covered entities to publicly provide certain information in clear language; suits to age of children accessing product; requires entity provide certain tools; provides information; requires for data protection impact assessment.
Oklahoma	H 2301	Schools	Pending	Relates to schools, enacts the Oklahoma School Cell Phone Act of 2025, provides for noncodification, provides an effective date.
Oklahoma	S 139	Schools	Pending	Relates to schools, requires school district boards of education to adopt a policy prohibiting use of cell phones while on campus during a certain time period, defines term, directs policy to contain disciplinary procedures, allows policy to include certain exceptions, directs the State Department of Education to establish certain grant program, directs certain amount to be made available in grants, subject to availability of funding.
Oklahoma	S 371	Schools	Pending	Relates to schools, defines term, directs school district boards of education to adopt policies prohibiting students from accessing certain platforms, websites, or applications while on school premises, provides for promulgation of rules, provides for codification, provides for an effective date, declares an emergency.
Oklahoma	S 885	Social Media Platforms	Pending	Relates to social media platforms; defines terms; creates the Safe Screens for Kids Act; provides short title; prohibits use of a social media platform by a minor without certain consent; requires certain age verification methods; requires certain access; prohibits certain restriction; prohibits certain data collection; provides certain exception; prohibits certain advertisement; prohibits use of certain technology for certain purpose; prohibits certain feature.
Oklahoma	S 932	Social Media	Pending	Relates to social media; defines terms; authorizes certain cause of action against a social media platform; establishes criteria to recover damages; authorizes certain rebuttable presumption; authorizes certain relief; prohibits certain liability; authorizes other remedies; states exception to certain rebuttable presumption; authorizes utilization of certain settings; disallows certain waiver or limitation; provides for codification; provides an effective date.
Oregon	H 2251	Personal Electronic Devices Prohibition	Pending	Directs school districts to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of student personal electronic devices.
Oregon	H 3456	Internet Safety Policies for Minors	Pending	Requires district school boards and public library boards to adopt policies to provide for Internet safety for students and minors.
Oregon	H 3458	Student Use of Personal Electronic Devices	Pending	Directs the Department of Education to develop model policies related to the use of student cellular telephones and other personal electronic devices.
Pennsylvania	H 62	Social Media Platforms	Pending	Relates to social media platforms; relates to limiting censorship and removing content.
Pennsylvania	S 22	Protection of Minors On Social Media	Pending	Provides for protection of minors on social media; imposes penalties. Prohibits a social media company or a social media platform to intentionally, knowingly, recklessly or negligently cause or encourage a minor to access content which the social media company knows or should have known subjects one or more minors to harm that is detrimental to the physical health, mental health or the well-being of a minor or that creates a reasonable likelihood of bodily injury or death to the minor.
Pennsylvania	S 229	Cell Phone Lockable Bag Pilot Program	Pending	Amends the act known as the Public School Code, in school safety and security, establishes the Cell Phone Lockable Bag Pilot Program.
Puerto Rico (P.R.)	H 179	Personal Electronic Devices	Pending	Prohibits the use o personal electronic devices by students in State’s educational institutions in elementary grades.
Rhode Island	S 2768	Statutory Framework to Protect Minors from Vlogging	Failed - Adjourned	Establishes a statutory framework designed to protect minors who are engaging in the business of vlogging on social media and the internet; establishes that a representative of the minor may file a law suit on the minor's behalf, even with respect to family members, to enforce the minor's rights pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
Rhode Island	H 5176	Student Computer Device Privacy	Pending	Prohibits an educational institution or school district from accessing any audio or video recording, transmitting or recording function on a student’s institutional or personal device or using location data for tracking a student’s institutional device or personal device, or allow a third party to do so, except in limited circumstances, exempts prisons or other correctional facilities.
Rhode Island	H 5598	Health and Safety of Pupils	Pending	Requires every public school district to have a policy regarding the use of personal electronic devices on school grounds and during school-sponsored activities to reduce distractions and maintain environments focused on learning, enables school districts to make exception to the policy.
Rhode Island	S 232	Student Computer Device Privacy	Pending	Prohibits an education institution or school district from accessing any audio or video recording, transmitting or recording function on a student’s institutional or personal device or using location data for tracking a student’s institutional device or personal device, or allow a third part to do so, except in limited circumstances.
Rhode Island	S 771	Health and Safety of Pupils in School	Pending	Requires each public school district to have a policy regarding the use of personal electronic devices on school grounds and during school-sponsored activities to reduce distractions and maintain environments focused on learning, enables school districts to make exceptions to the policy.
American Samoa	Not available
South Carolina	H 3400	Child Data Privacy and Protection Act	Pending	Provides definitions; provides for certain data protection impact assessments; provides that certain entities may not collect, retain, process, or sell certain personal data; provides that certain entities shall utilize privacy by default; provides that users must have access to their accounts; provides that certain civil and criminal subpoenas and warrants must be expedited; provides that privacy policies must be prominently displayed; provides for methods for notifications.
South Carolina	H 3401	Governmental Entity	Pending	Provides definitions; provides that a governmental entity may not communicate with a social media platform in certain instances. Creates rights a parent or legal guardian of the child may exercise these rights on behalf of the child with respect to the processing of personal data belonging to a known child,
South Carolina	H 3402	Age-Appropriate Design Code Act	Pending	Enacts the State 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	H 3431	Social Media Company Requirements	Pending	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; provides that the consumer services division has authority to administer and enforce certain requirements.
South Carolina	S 235	Prohibit Prostitution	Pending	Relates to prostitution; revises the statute to prohibit prostitution by a prostituted person and to increase the penalty for violations. Prohibits the promotion, marketing, or advertising of prostitution on a media platform accessible to the public, including, but not limited to, social media platforms.
South Carolina	S 268	Implementation of the Service to Prevent Harm to Minors	Pending	Provides that a covered online service shall take care in the use of a minor's personal data and in the design and implementation of the service to prevent harm to minors; provides that the online service must provide minors with easily accessible tools to limit time spent on the service and protect personal data; provides limits on how much of a minor's data the service may collect and restrict the use of such data.
South Dakota	S 18	Age Verification and Websites Harmful Material	Pending	Requires age verification by websites containing material that is harmful to minors, and to provide a penalty therefor.
South Dakota	S 180	Online Application Store Age Verification	Pending	Requires age verification before an individual may access an application from an online application store.
Tennessee	H 13	Local Education Agencies	Pending	Requires LEAs and public charter schools to adopt a policy to prohibit students from using wireless communication devices during instructional time except in certain circumstances.
Tennessee	H 41	Wireless Communication Policy	Failed	Requires each local board of education and public charter school governing board to adopt a wireless communication policy that requires students to keep wireless communication devices turned off and stowed away during a classroom instructional day or during instructional time except in certain circumstances.
Tennessee	H 419	Local Education Agencies	Failed	Requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit students from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during the school day unless an exception applies, requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to develop or adopt a policy to implement the prohibition and to submit its policy to the Department of Education no later than the specified date.
Tennessee	H 768	Local Education Agencies	Pending	Requires public charter schools to adopt an internet acceptable use policy in the same manner required for LEAs, prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from tracking or monitoring a person’s use of personal electronic device on school property, except for instances in which a student uses a device during a test.
Tennessee	H 825	Curriculum Education	Pending	Enacts the Teen Social Media and Internet Safety Act, which requires the Department of Education to develop curricula for the instruction of social media and internet safety for students in specified grades who are enrolled in a school in a local education agency (LEA) or public charter school; requires such LEAs and public charter schools to instruct such students using the curricula developed by the department.
Tennessee	H 932	Students	Pending	Requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to adopt a policy to prohibit students from using wireless communication devices during instructional times, except in certain circumstances.
Tennessee	HJR 179	Statement of Intent or Position	Pending	Recognizes mental health consequences of social media on K-12 students.
Tennessee	S 10	Communication Devices at Schools	Pending	Provides that each local board of education and each public charter school governing body shall adopt and implement a wireless communication device policy that, among other things, prohibits a student from using a wireless communication device during instructional time and authorizes a teacher to allow a student to use a wireless communication device for educational purposes during instructional time.
Tennessee	S 18	Wireless Communication Policy	Failed	Requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a wireless communication policy that requires students to keep wireless communication devices turned off and stowed away during a classroom instructional day or during instructional time except in certain circumstances.
Tennessee	S 121	Local Education Agencies	Pending	Requires public charter schools, adopts an internet acceptable use policy in the same manner, requires for Local Education Agencies, prohibits Local Educational Agencies and public charter schools from tracing or monitoring a person’s use of a personal electronic device on school property, except for instances in which a student uses such device during a test.
Tennessee	S 414	Local Education Agencies	Failed	Relates to electronic devices, provides that each local education agency and public charter school shall prohibit a student enrolled in the LEA or public charter school from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during the school day unless the electronic device is, another other things, provided to the student by the LEA or public charter school and authorized for use during the school day pursuant to the policy adopted by the local board of education or public charter school governing body.
Tennessee	S 811	Curriculum Education	Pending	Enacts the Teen Social Media and Internet Safety Act, which requires the department of education to develop curricula for the instruction of social media and internet safety for students in a specified grades who are enrolled in a school in a LEA or public charter school; requires such LEAs and public charter schools to instruct such students using the curricula developed by the department.
Tennessee	S 897	Students	Pending	Requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to adopt a policy to prohibit students from using wireless communication devices during instructional time, except in certain circumstances.
Texas	H 421	Creation of Certain Explicit Deep Fake Material	Pending	Relates to the creation of certain explicit deep fake material; provides a private cause of action. Prohibits a deep fake generator to not create or generate explicit deep fake material apparently depicting a person who is at least 18 years old without the written consent of the person.
Texas	H 499	Social Media Platforms Warning Labels	Pending	Relates to a warning label on social media platforms concerning the association between a minor's social media usage and significant mental health issues.
Texas	H 515	Public School Personal Electronic Devices Policies	Pending	Relates to public school policies regarding student use of personal electronic devices.
Texas	H 581	Create of Artificial Sexual Material Harmful to Minors	Pending	Relates to the creation of artificial sexual material harmful to minors.
Texas	H 1258	Student Possession of Personal Communication Devices	Pending	Relates to public school policies regarding student possession of personal communication devices, authorizes a fee.
Texas	H 1375	Civil Liability for Obscenity	Pending	Relates to civil liability for obscenity to minors; provides that a defendant is liable to a person harmed for damages arising from obscenity if the defendant engages in the obscenity or knowingly or intentionally benefits from participating in an entity that engages in the obscenity; provides for commercial entity liability.
Texas	H 1446	No Cell Phone in School Study	Pending	Relates to a study by the State Education Agency on the effects of school district policies prohibiting student use of personal communication devices.
Texas	H 1481	Student Use of Personal Wireless Communication Devices	Pending	Relates to the use of personal wireless communication devices by students during instructional time. Requires the board of trustees of a school district and the governing body of an open enrollment charter school to adopt policies prohibiting students from using personal wireless communication devices during instructional time.
Texas	H 2173	Warning Label on Social Media Platforms	Pending	Relates to a warning label on social media platforms concerning the association between a minor's social media usage and significant mental health issues.
Texas	H 2205	Electronic Device Use by Public School Students	Pending	Relates to a policy prohibiting the use of a personal electronic devices by public school students during instructional time.
Texas	H 2469	Access to Certain Internet Websites in Public Schools	Pending	Relates to access to certain internet websites in public schools.
Texas	H 3160	Internet Safety and Technology Protection Policies	Pending	Relates to internet safety and technology protection policies in public schools and libraries.
Texas	H 3862	Prohibiting Use of Social Media Platforms by Children	Pending	Relates to prohibiting use of social media platforms by children.
Texas	H 5517	Sexually Explicit Artificially Generated Images	Pending	Relates to sexually explicit artificially generated images and videos.
Texas	S 966	Use of Technology by Public School Students	Pending	Relates to the use of technology by public school students, including a study on the public health effects of digital learning and public school policies regarding student possession of personal communication devices, increases a fee.
Texas	S 1298	Instruction in Online Safety for Minors	Pending	Relates to instruction in online safety for minors provided in public schools and by the Department of Public Safety.
Texas	S 1459	Possession of Personal Communication Devices	Pending	Relates to public school policies regarding student possession of personal communication devices and internet safety.
Texas	S 2365	Student Use of Personal Wireless Communication Devices	Pending	Relates to the use of personal wireless communication devices by students during instructional time.
Texas	S 2421	Electronic Device Filters for Certain Obscene Materials	Pending	Relates to the electronic device filters for certain obscene materials; provides a civil penalty; creates a criminal offense.
Texas	S 2787	Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy Instruction	Pending	Relates to digital citizenship and media literacy instruction in public schools and a public school policy regarding internet safety.
Texas	S 2881	Access and Communications Settings for Minors Account	Pending	Relates to the access and communications settings for accounts of minor users of digital services.
Texas	S 3003	Age Verification for the Online Sale of Obscene Devices	Pending	Relates to age verification for the online sale of obscene devices.
Utah	H 322	Child Actor Regulations	To Governor	Enacts provisions related to minors involved in entertainment; requires that a parent or guardian establish a trust for a minor involved in entertainment; provides the circumstances under which a child of a content creator is not subject to trust and compensation requirements; provides the circumstances under which a parent or guardian may serve as the trustee of a trust for a minor involved in entertainment; establishes a right of action for a minor involved in entertainment.
Utah	S 98	Parental Education on Student Use of Technology	Pending	Requires the State Board of Education to create a video presentation for parents regarding potential safety and legal issues a student may encounter regarding the students use of technology, including sharing personal data via social media, and other means of communication, and creating and sharing sexual or nude images, both real and artificially produced, provides that the board shall make the video presentation available to each school district so that the district may provide the presentation to parents.
Utah	S 142	App Store Accountability Act	To Governor	Requires app store providers to verify user ages, obtain parental consent for minor accounts, notify users and parents of significant changes, share age and consent data with developers, and protect age verification data; prohibits app store providers from enforcing contracts against minors without parental consent and from misrepresenting parental content disclosures; requires the Division of Consumer Protection to establish standards for age verification methods; creates a private right of action.
Utah	S 178	Devices in Public Schools	Pending	Relates to the use of cell phones, smart watches, or emerging technologies during classroom hours, prohibits a student from using a cell phone smart watch, or emerging technology during classroom hours, permits the State Board of Education to create model policies, provides that a local education agency shall establish a policy that allows a student use technologies to, amount other things, respond to a school wide emergency, to use the SafeUt Crisi Line, and to address a medical necessity.
Vermont	H 54	Cell Phone Free Schools	Pending	Relates to cell phone-free schools.
Vermont	H 210	Age Appropriate Design Code	Pending	Relates to an age-appropriate design code.
Vermont	S 21	Cell Phone Free Schools	Pending	Relates to cell phone-free schools.
Vermont	S 69	Age Appropriate Design Code	Pending	Relates to an age-appropriate design code.
Virginia	H 706	Public Secondary Schools	Failed	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 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.
Virginia	H 877	Virginia Social Media Regulation Act	Failed	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.
Virginia	H 1094	Department of Education	Failed	Relates to Department of Education; relates to school boards; relates to student online activity; relates to data collection, monitoring, and restrictions.
Virginia	H 1115	Consumer Data Protection Act	Failed	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.
Virginia	H 1161	Consumer Data Protection Act	Failed	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.
Virginia	H 1840	Student Online Activity Data Collection	Failed	Relates to Department of Education, relates to school boards, relates to student online activity, relates to data collection, monitoring and restrictions, requires the Department of Education to establish reporting expectations for school divisions that collect student online activity data.
Virginia	H 1817	Consumer Data Protection Act	Failed	Relates to consumer data protection act; relates to social media; relates to parental consent; requires any social media platform that is subject to the provisions of the federal 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 such social media platform.
Virginia	H 1961	Phone Possession and Use School Policies	Pending	Relates to public elementary and secondary schools, relates to student discipline, relates to student cell phone possession and smart device possession and use policies, provides development and implementation.
Virginia	S 359	Consumer Data Protection Act	Failed	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.
Virginia	S 432	Consumer Data Protection Act	Failed	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.
Virginia	S 532	Commercial Entity Offering Social Media Accounts	Failed	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 12:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.
Virginia	S 684	Online Children’s Safety Protection Act	Failed	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.
Virginia	S 738	Student Cell Phone Policy	Pending	Relates to public elementary and secondary schools, relates to student cell phone possession and use policies, relates to development and implementation, provides that each school board shall develop and each public elementary and secondary school shall implement age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate policies relating to student cell phone and smart device possession and use on school property during regular school hours.
Virginia	S 783	Consumer Data Protection Act	Failed	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 controllers or processors product or service or before collecting, using, or disclosing such child's personal data; amends the definition of child for purposes of the Consumer Data Protection Act to include any natural person younger than specified years of age.
Virginia	S 854	Social Media Platforms for Minors	To Governor	Defines minor as any natural person younger than specified years of age; provides that any controller or processor that operates a social media platform shall use commercially reasonable methods, such as a neutral age screen mechanism, to determine whether a user is a minor and limit a minor's use of such social media platform to one hour per day, per service or application, and allow a parent to give verifiable parental consent to increase or decrease the daily time limit.
Virginia	S 1486	Student Personal Information	Pending	Relates to public schools, relates to student records and personal information, relates to school-issued devices and school technology providers, relates to protection of student personal information, relates to policies and procedures, establishes several requirements and restrictions for the purpose of ensuring the protection of student personal information and educational records in the procurement, provision and use of school-issued devices.
Washington	H 1122	Mobile Device Usage By Public School Students	Pending	Restricts mobile device usage by public school students.
Washington	S 5708	Washington Children Online	Pending	Protects Washington children online; provides that an operator of an addictive internet-based service or application shall not use any personal information collected to estimate age or age range for any other purpose or retain that personal information, other than the estimated age or age range, longer than necessary to estimate age.
West Virginia	H 2003	Cell Phones in Class	Pending	Relates to the limitations of cell phones in classrooms, provides for a purpose and application, creates definitions, creates a prohibition of personal electronic devices during instructional time, sets forth minimum requirements for county board of education policies, provides for severability.
West Virginia	H 2677	Cell Phone Possession and Usage by Students	Pending	Prohibits cell phone possession and usage by students during instructional time in grades K-12.
West Virginia	H 2741	Electronic Devices	Pending	Prohibits the use of electronic devices for learning in all classrooms grades 3 and below.
West Virginia	S 432	Personal Cell Phones and Other Electronic Communication	Pending	Requires county boards of education adopt policies limiting use of personal cell phones and other electronic communication devices.
West Virginia	S 457	Cell Phones in Class	Pending	Prohibits cell phones in class.
Wisconsin	A 2	Requiring School Boards To Adopt Cell Phone Policies	Pending	Requires school boards to adopt policies to prohibit the use of wireless communication devices during instructional time.
Wisconsin	S 29	Wireless Communication Devices at School	Pending	Requires school boards to adopt policies to prohibit the use of wireless communication devices during instructional time.
Wyoming	S 21	Wireless Communication Devices at School	Pending	Requires school boards to adopt policies to prohibit the use of wireless communication devices during instructional time.
Wyoming	H 43	Age Verification for Websites	Enacted	Requires age verification for visiting websites with material harmful to minors; specifies requirements and exceptions for age verification; specifies remedies, liability and damages; provides that any covered platform or third party that performs the required age verification shall not retain any identifying information; provides that any parent or guardian of a minor who is aggrieved by a violation shall have a cause of action on the minors behalf against the covered platform.

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