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.
Kids Online Safety Act 2023
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is a well-intentioned bill that attempts to address a serious issue – the exposure of children to harmful material online – in a way that dangerously violates the First Amendment right to free expression.
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.
CASE–IT Act (2023)
Creates an exception to Section 230 immunity for information “harmful to minors” unless they “implement a system designed to effectively screen users who are minors from accessing such content, to the extent feasible using technology available at the time of such distribution.”
Kansas SB 160 / HB 2301
Louisiana AVS law copycat. Requires use of commercial age verification systems or valid government ID on websites that contain “a substantial portion of material that may be harmful to minors.”
South Carolina HB 3826
Greatly expands the definition of “harmful to minors” to include any material that depicts sexual activity or “contains profane language”.Â
Arizona SB 1503
Requires that anyone who posts content to a website that “contains a substantial portion of explicit sexual material” verify the age of that website’s users via government-issued identification.