Minnesota SF 2105 / HF 1434

Age verification mandate. Relevant features:

• Enforcement: civil penalties, private lawsuits
• Age verification mechanisms allowed:
  • a commercially available database that is regularly used by businesses or governmental entities to verify age and identity; or
  • any other commercially reasonable method to verify age and identity approved by the commissioner of commerce.
• Applies to any commercial entity who knowingly:
  • “shares or distributes material that is harmful to minors on a website where the material appears on 25 percent or more of the web pages viewed on the website in any calendar month” or
  • “hosts a website that meets the [above] criteria”