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.
Wisconsin AB 730/SB 683
Age verification mandate. Enforced via private lawsuits.
Indiana SB 17
Age verification mandate enforced by the state attorney general.
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.
Delaware HB 265
Age verification mandate. Enforced by public or private right of action.
Michigan HB 5009
Age verification mandate. Enforced by public or private right of action.
North Carolina HB 8
Age verification mandate enforced by private right of action.
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.
New York A 216/S 6859
Requires advertisements to disclose the use of synthetic media; imposes a $1,000 civil penalty for a first violation and a $5,000 penalty for any subsequent violation.