🔞 Pennsylvania HB 2143
Age verification mandate enforced by private lawsuits for treble damages or $10k (whichever is greater).
🔞 Arizona HB 2656
Age verification mandate with ISP block.
🔞 Ohio SB 212
Age verification mandate. Enforcement: by the state attorney general
🔞 SCREEN Act of 2024
Utah Senator Mike Lee is reintroducing the Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act, which requires adult websites to implement age verification.
🔞 Illinois SB 2590
Enacts the Adult Content Age Verification Act. Enforcement mechanism: Attorney General investigation/civil penalties; requires AG to give sites 30 days notice of noncompliance before initiating legal action.
🔞 Ohio HB 295
Enacts the Innocence Act to prohibit an organization from failing to verify the age of a person attempting to access material that is obscene or harmful to juveniles, to prohibit a person from using another person’s likeness to create sexual images of the other person, and to create a private right of action for each prohibited activity.
🔞 Michigan HB 5009
Age verification mandate. Enforced by public or private right of action.
California AB 1501
This bill would require a commercial sexually explicit website to use an age verification method that prevents minors from accessing sexually explicit material. Nothing about the method is defined. Noncompliance would open websites to private lawsuits from the parent or legal guardian of a minor who accessed the sexually explicit material.
🔞 CASE–IT Act (2023)
Creates an exception to Section 230 immunity for information “harmful to minors” unless they “implement a system designed to effectively screen users who are minors from accessing such content, to the extent feasible using technology available at the time of such distribution.”