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.
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.
California SB 646
This bill would allow victims of CSAM to bring a civil action against a person or company that distributes the material. It would require websites to list a contact to report violations and to report erroneous content removals.
Massachusetts H 1758
This bill creates a “Human Trafficking Prevention and Sex Worker Project”, which aims to prevent and eliminate human trafficking while supporting the health, safety, and autonomy of sex workers. Additionally, it establishes an interagency committee to study the decriminalization of sex work, and it allows individuals reporting crimes to be protected from certain charges related to sex work offenses.
New York A 7175
To repeal statutes that criminalize sex work between consenting adults, but keep laws relating to minors or trafficking, and to provide for criminal record relief for people convicted of crimes repealed under this bill.