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.
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.
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.
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.