Iowa SF 2227

Age verification mandate. Relevant features:

• Applies to “website[s] for which it is in the regular course of the trade or business of the entity to create, host, or make available” material harmful to minors.
• Enforcement: private lawsuits
• Age verification mechanisms allowed:
  • State-issued driver’s license
  • State-issued identification
  • Government identification card
  • Military identification card
  • Credit cards, not including cards that do not require the individual in ownership of the account to be eighteen years of age or older
  • Debit cards, not including cards that do not require the individual in ownership of the account to be eighteen years of age or older
  • Bank account information.
  • Any other means or method that reliably and accurately can determine a user of a covered platform is a minor and prevent access by minors to the content on a covered platform.