Arizona HB 2112

Age verification mandate. Relevant features:

• Enforcement:

  • government fines of $10,000 per day
  • private lawsuits

• Age verification mechanisms allowed:

  • government-issued identification
  • a commercially reasonable method that relies on public or private transactional data to verify the age of an individual

• Websites are required to display the following on their homepage “in at least fourteen-point font:

  ARIZONA HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES WARNING: PORNOGRAPHY IS POTENTIALLY BIOLOGICALLY ADDICTIVE, IS PROVEN TO HARM HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT, DESENSITIZES BRAIN REWARD CIRCUITS, INCREASES CONDITIONED RESPONSES AND WEAKENS BRAIN FUNCTION.

  ARIZONA HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES WARNING: EXPOSURE TO THIS CONTENT IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW SELF-ESTEEM AND BODY IMAGE, EATING DISORDERS, IMPAIRED BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND OTHER EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL ILLNESSES.

  ARIZONA HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES WARNING: PORNOGRAPHY INCREASES THE DEMAND FOR PROSTITUTION, CHILD EXPLOITATION AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.”

• They must also “display the following notice at the bottom of every webpage of the internet website in at least fourteen-point font:

  UNITED STATES SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION HELPLINE:

  1-800-662-HELP (4357)

  THIS HELPLINE IS A FREE, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION SERVICE (IN ENGLISH OR SPANISH) OPEN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS PER DAY, FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILY MEMBERS FACING MENTAL HEALTH OR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS.

  THE SERVICE PROVIDES REFERRAL TO LOCAL TREATMENT FACILITIES, SUPPORT GROUPS AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS.”