Delaware HB 265

Age verification mandate. Relevant features: 

  • public or private right of action ("An action under this section may be brought by the Attorney General or any person, parent, or guardian of any person whose age was not verified.")
  • 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
    • another commercially reasonable method of age and identity verification, verify that any person attempting to access such material harmful to minors is 18 years of age or older

Latest Action: Introduced on September 1, 2023
Deadline: July 1, 2024

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Passed First Chamber
Passed Both Committees
Passed Both Chambers
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Michigan HB 5009

Age verification mandate. Relevant features:

  • private right of action
  • age verification methods allowed:
    • digitized identification card (Michigan does not have this)
    • government ID
    • transactional data

Latest Action: Introduced on September 14, 2023
Deadline: December 31, 2024

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Introduced
Passed First Committee
Passed First Chamber
Passed Both Committees
Passed Both Chambers
Signed
Enacted
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North Carolina HB 8

Age verification mandate. Relevant features: 

  • private right of action
  • 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
    • another commercially reasonable method of age and identity verification, verify the age of the individuals attempting to access the material

Latest Action: Sent to Governor on September 22, 2023
Deadline: June 30, 2024

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Introduced
Passed First Committee
Passed First Chamber
Passed Both Committees
Passed Both Chambers
Signed
Enacted
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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.

Latest Action: Introduced on June 22, 2023
Deadline: November 30, 2024

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Introduced
Passed First Committee
Passed First Chamber
Passed Both Committees
Passed Both Chambers
Signed
Enacted
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California AB 127

Last year’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act included a provision to establish a Children’s Data Protection Working Group. This bill

  • implements the working group in the Office of the Attorney General
  • changes the deadline for the report to the Legislature from January 1, 2024, to July 1, 2024
  • authorizes working group meetings to be conducted remotely
  • reduces the total working group membership from ten to nine by reducing the number of appointments of the California Privacy Protection Agency from two to one

Latest Action: Approved by the Governor on July 10, 2023
Deadline: November 30, 2024

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Introduced
Passed First Committee
Passed First Chamber
Passed Both Committees
Passed Both Chambers
Signed
Enacted
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Oregon Age-Appropriate Design Code

Requires business that provides online product, service or feature that child is reasonably likely to access to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks to child from online product, service or feature. Restricts manner in which business may collect or use personal information of child. Requires business that provides online product, service or feature that child is reasonably likely to access to complete and retain Data Protection Impact Assessment. Requires business to provide upon request completed assessment to Attorney General. Authorizes Attorney General to bring action for injunctive relief, civil penalties or attorney fees and enforcement costs and disbursements against business for violations. Establishes Task Force on Age-Appropriate Design. Requires task force to study how children access, use and are affected by online products, services and features and methods for mitigating risks. Provides that requirements and restrictions become operative July 1, 2024. Sunsets task force on January 2, 2025.

Latest Action: Failed to pass before the end of the legislative session on June 24, 2023
Deadline: June 24, 2023

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Alabama HB 441

This bill is a copycat of Louisiana's age verification law with a couple of additions:

  • Adult sites would have to register with Alabama and pay a one-time registration fee and an annual license fee each year thereafter. 
  • The Alabama Attorney General can prosecute sites that do not comply, fining them up to $2,000 per violation.

Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.

Latest Action: Indefinitely Postponed on May 30, 2023
Deadline: June 15, 2023

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Introduced

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Passed Both Committees

Passed Both Chambers

Signed

Enacted

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North Carolina Pornography Age Verification Enforcement Act

House Bill 534 would enact the "Pornography Age Verification Enforcement Act" or PAVE Act. It would require commercial entities that publish or distribute "material harmful to minors" on internet websites to verify that a person seeking to access the material is 18 by requiring the person to comply with a commercial age verification system that verifies using government-issued identification or public or private transactional data.

The Attorney General would be authorized to conduct investigations of the alleged failure to use a required system and provide the commercial entity with at least 30 days to comply with the requirement. If the entity fails to comply, the Attorney General could initiate a civil action in the Superior Court of Wake County to assess civil penalties. Civil penalties could be assessed as follows:
• $5,000 for each day of violation.
• An additional $10,000 for each violation, at the request of the Attorney General.
Civil penalties collected would be remitted to the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund.

This act would become effective January 1, 2024, and apply to websites accessed on or after that date.

Latest Action: Passed House Judiciary Committee on May 3, 2023
Deadline: June 30, 2024

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Florida SB 1620

This bill is kind of an anti-porn omnibus. It:

  • includes Louisiana AVS copycat language
  • redefines "harmful to minors" as anything depicting nudity, sexual conduct, or sexual excitement, including, but not limited to, pubic hair, the anus, the vulva, genitals, or the nipple of the female breast; touching, caressing, or fondling of nipples, breasts, buttocks, anuses, or genitals; or sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation, excretory functions, or any other sexual act or exhibition.
  • requires state to fund technology and pornography addiction assessments for children
  • requires Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse to make recommendations on how service providers and school districts can best identify, treat, and serve children suffering from technology addiction or pornography addiction
  • requires psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, and physician assistants to complete training on the treatment of technology addiction and pornography addiction
  • requires warning label on "digital devices" claiming that they are addictive

If passed, would take effect July 1, 2023

Latest Action: Died in commitee on May 5, 2023
Deadline: May 5, 2023

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Passed Both Chambers

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Alabama HB 298

This bill would require manufacturers of Internet-enabled devices to automatically activate existing filters on the devices to prevent users from accessing material harmful to minors, including pornography, without a device passcode, and would provide civil penalties for a violation.

Latest Action: Failed to pass before the end of the legislative session on June 6, 2023
Deadline: June 6, 2023

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Introduced

Passed First Committee

Passed First Chamber

Passed Both Committees

Passed Both Chambers

Signed

Enacted

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