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S 1748 Cleared committee

Requires online platforms, video games, and video streaming services used by minors to give young users and parents safety controls, limit design features that encourage compulsive use, and address certain harms to minors.

Official title: Kids Online Safety Act

Next stop Senate floor: awaiting a vote
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Senate
Introduced 14-MAY-2025
Approved by committee 05-AUG-2026
Key points
  • Requires covered platforms to exercise reasonable care to prevent and mitigate harms to minors, including eating disorders, sexual exploitation, and financial harms from unfair or deceptive practices
  • Requires default safeguards for users known to be minors, parental tools for children under 13, and a reporting mechanism with response deadlines
  • Bars platforms from advertising narcotic drugs, cannabis, tobacco, gambling, or alcohol to users they know are minors and from market research on children without parental consent
  • Enforced by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general, and directs a Commerce Department study on device-level age verification
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Official CRS summary

Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Introduced in Senate, 14-MAY-2025).

CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov
Committee referrals (1) Policy area

Science, Technology, Communications

Sponsor Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) Cosponsors · 76
■ 42 R■ 33 D■ 1 I
1 Independent