Children's Online Safety Tracker
Every state is writing a different answer to the same question about minors online
A curated tracker for age assurance, design duties on minor accounts and parental consent, with a monthly issue on what changed and where.
Bills in Scope
Jurisdictions
Past Committee
The Problem
Six Incompatible Regimes, All At Once
This is the fastest-moving consumer internet subject in the states. A client operating in more than one is not asking whether to comply. They are asking which of six regimes they are in.
Age assurance is not age verification
One requires an estimate, one requires a document, and the difference decides whether a client must collect identity data they would rather never hold. The distinction lives in a definition clause and it varies by state.
The duty keeps landing on a new party
Platforms, then app stores, then device manufacturers, then whoever operates a companion chatbot. A client who read the first wave and concluded they were out of scope is often in scope by the third.
Litigation keeps moving the ground
Enjoined statutes get amended and refiled in narrower form. What matters is not the law passed two years ago but the bill filed this session that is drafted to survive.
What's In Scope
Defined in writing, measured against every bill
In scope is any bill attaching a duty to an account held by a minor, or to the party providing it: age verification and age assurance, age-appropriate design codes, default settings and engagement design for minor accounts, app store and device-level accountability, companion chatbots where a minor is the user, and parental consent for account creation.
What this tracker does not cover
This is not a general child-protection tracker. Bills on the sale of age-restricted goods, criminal offences against minors, gambling advertised to minors and law enforcement access to platform data sit outside the scope. Regulatory Watch is Federal Register only, permanently.
Scope is defined by a written topic profile that every bill is measured against. The profiles are drafted by a model and validated by retrieval measurement against a judged set of bills, not reviewed by an attorney. LawSignals is a research tool and does not provide legal advice.
Live From The Tracker
What's at the top of the Children's Online Safety feed
The real feed, ranked the way a subscriber sees it: how far a bill has moved first, then how recently. Nothing here is a sample.
Matched through 12 August 2026
46Enacted
5Cleared both chambers
92Past committee
333Introduced or inactive
476 bills in scope
Enacted
25 of 46 shown
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The Monthly Issue
The document you forward to a client
Read a full issue before you decide anything. It was generated from the corpus, so every bill in it is real and you can check one.
Read the June 2026 issueA real generated document, not a mockup.
The month in one paragraph
What actually happened, written rather than counted.
What moved
Every bill that advanced, grouped by how far, one line each.
Enacted
What became law, and the effective date where the text states one.
Regulatory Watch
Federal rulemaking on the same subject, led by comment deadlines.
By Jurisdiction
Children's Online Safety legislation, state by state
50 jurisdictions currently hold bills in this tracker
- New Jersey23
- New York22
- Oklahoma21
- West Virginia20
- Montana19
- Massachusetts18
- Minnesota18
- Missouri17
- Connecticut14
- Illinois14
- Mississippi14
- Virginia14
- Iowa13
- South Carolina13
- Texas13
- Alabama12
- Arizona12
- California12
- Hawaii12
- New Hampshire12
- Florida11
- Kansas8
- Louisiana8
- Michigan8
- Pennsylvania8
- Vermont8
- Colorado7
- Georgia7
- Maryland7
- Ohio7
- Rhode Island7
- South Dakota7
- Utah7
- North Carolina6
- Indiana5
- Kentucky5
- Nebraska5
- Oregon5
- Alaska4
- Idaho4
- New Mexico4
- Tennessee4
- Wisconsin4
- Maine3
- Congress3
- Washington3
- Arkansas2
- North Dakota2
- Nevada2
- Wyoming2
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does this tracker cover?
Duties attached to an account held by a minor, or to the party providing it: age verification and age assurance, age-appropriate design codes, engagement and default settings for minor accounts, app store and device accountability, companion chatbots, and parental consent for account creation.
Is this a general child-protection tracker?
No, and the distinction is deliberate. Bills about age-restricted goods, criminal offences against minors, gambling advertised to minors and law enforcement access to platform data are outside the scope, because they answer a different question for a different practice.
How does it handle statutes that get enjoined?
The tracker follows pending legislation, so an enjoined statute matters here mainly through the narrower bill refiled in the next session. Those refilings are what the monthly issue reports.
Who decides what is relevant?
A written topic profile, drafted by a model and validated by retrieval measurement against a judged set of bills. It is not reviewed by an attorney.
LawSignals is a research tool. It does not provide legal advice. Always consult qualified legal counsel.