Missouri HB 236
Age verification mandate enforced by private lawsuits.
South Carolina H 3406
Anti-porn bill masquerading as a ban on non-consensual intimate image distribution.
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.
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.
Pennsylvania HB 1501
The “Protection of Minors from Unfiltered Devices Act” would require new smart phones and tablets activated in Pennsylvania to have a “harmful material” filter enabled by default.
Child Online Safety Modernization Act (COSMA)
The Child Online Safety Modernization Act replaces the term “child pornography” with the more accurate “child sexual abuse material” in US federal law; updates the rules requiring CSAM to be reported to The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC); and requires platforms to report apparent child sex trafficking and enticement to NCMEC.
SHIELD Act of 2023
A bill to make it unlawful to knowingly mail or distribute an intimate visual depiction of an adult engaging in sexually explicit conduct or who is nude or partially nude under certain conditions.