KIDS Act (H.R. 7757)

The KIDS act incorporates a version of the SCREEN Act into a larger online child safety bill. The language in this bill would require websites that knowingly host more than 1/3 sexual material harmful to minors to age-verify their users. It would preempt all US state age verification laws.

Websites may use any "commercially available technology verification measure" that is "reasonably designed to ensure accuracy”. Regardless of what process or third-party product is used, the website is liable.

Platforms must take "reasonable measures to address circumvention" of verification measures, but VPNs are not explicitly mentioned.

The law would be enforced by the FTC as an unfair or deceptive trade practice. State AGs can also bring civil actions for injunctions, damages, restitution, or other relief on behalf of state residents. No specific per-violation dollar amounts are set in the bill; penalties would follow FTC Act civil penalty structure (currently up to ~$51,000/violation/day).