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HR 7757 Passed a chamber

Requires online platforms, video game providers, and AI chatbot companies to add safeguards for users under 17, including parental controls, age checks for sexual content, and limits on data collection about children and teens.

Official title: KIDS Act

Next stop Senate: awaiting action
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced 03-MAR-2026
Referred 03-MAR-2026
Passed 29-JUN-2026
Senate
Received 13-JUL-2026
Key points
  • Requires platforms with sexual material harmful to minors to use technology verification measures to keep minors from accessing it, starting one year after enactment
  • Requires social platforms to offer minors default privacy settings, parental tools, and teen messaging controls, and bars design features that encourage compulsive use
  • Requires video game providers to give parents controls over communication with minors, and requires AI chatbots to disclose they are not human, share suicide hotline resources, and suggest a break after three hours
  • Amends the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act to protect users under 14 as children and users 14 to 17 as teens, and requires data brokers that sell minors' data to register with the FTC
AI-generated from the Referred in Senate text of 13-JUL-2026 · verify · report an error
Official CRS summary

Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (03-MAR-2026); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 29-JUN-2026).

CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov
Committee referrals (3) Policy area

Commerce

Sponsor Brett Guthrie (R-KY) Cosponsors · 1
■ 1 D
1 Democrat