Children's Online Safety laws and bills in California
Every bill in the California Legislature that falls inside the Children's Online Safety Tracker's scope, with where each one currently stands.
Bills in Scope
Past Committee
Most Recent Action
Children's Online Safety laws enacted in California in 2026
7 Children's Online Safety bills were enacted in California this year, the latest with a last action on 30 September 2026. Each links to the California Legislature's own page.
- SB 1247Social media platforms: child influencers.30 September 2026
- AB 1159Student personal information.10 September 2026
- AB 1709Covered platforms: age restriction: e-Safety Advisory Commission.10 September 2026
- AB 1856Age verification signals: software applications.10 September 2026
- AB 2Injuries to children: civil penalties.10 September 2026
- AB 2246Online service, product, or feature: access by children.10 September 2026
- SB 1119Companion chatbots: children's safety.10 September 2026
Children's Online Safety bills in California
10Enacted
1Cleared both chambers
2Past committee
5Introduced or inactive
18 bills in scope
Enacted
10
Cleared both chambers
1
Past committee
2
Introduced or inactive
5
Bill titles link to the California Legislature's own page.
Coverage depth varies by jurisdiction. How this is measured, and where it is thinner.
What's In Scope
How Children's Online Safety bills are selected
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.
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.
Children's Online Safety legislation in other jurisdictions
50 more currently hold bills in this tracker
- New Jersey27
- New York27
- Oklahoma22
- Virginia22
- Illinois19
- Massachusetts18
- Arizona16
- Minnesota15
- South Carolina15
- Texas15
- Hawaii14
- Missouri14
- Iowa13
- Maryland12
- Alabama11
- Connecticut11
- Florida11
- Mississippi11
- Congress11
- Vermont10
- Colorado9
- Louisiana9
- Michigan8
- Montana8
- Ohio8
- Rhode Island8
- Utah8
- Washington8
- Georgia7
- North Carolina7
- New Hampshire7
- Pennsylvania7
- South Dakota7
- Wisconsin7
- West Virginia7
- Nebraska6
- New Mexico6
- Oregon6
- Kansas5
- Kentucky5
- Tennessee5
- Arkansas4
- Idaho4
- Indiana4
- Alaska3
- Maine3
- North Dakota2
- Nevada2
- Puerto Rico2
- Wyoming2
California is one of Children's Online Safety's jurisdictions
The tracker follows this subject everywhere it is legislated, and publishes a monthly issue on what moved across all of them.