🔞 Kansas HB2592/SB394
Issue: Age Verification
Latest Action: Became law without governor’s signature on April 25, 2024
Law took effect July 1, 2024
Age verification mandate. Relevant features:
- Enforcement: civil fines and private lawsuits
- Age verification mechanisms allowed:
- A commercially available database that is regularly used by businesses or governmental entities for the purpose of age and identity verification
- any other “reasonable” method expressly approved by attorney general or certified in documented international standards for age verification as specified by the attorney general
- Applies to “Any commercial entity that knowingly shares or distributes material that is harmful to minors on a website and such material appears on 25% or more of the webpages viewed on such website in any calendar month, or that knowingly hosts such website”
- Uses definition of "harmful to minors" that includes "acts of...homosexuality"
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Bill Status
- Introduced
- Passed First Committee
- Passed First Chamber
- Passed Both Committees
- Passed Both Chambers
- Enacted