Children's Online Safety legislation in Iowa

Every bill in the Iowa Legislature that falls inside the Children's Online Safety Tracker's scope, with where each one currently stands.

Bills in Scope

Past Committee

1 June 2026

Most Recent Action

Children's Online Safety bills in Iowa

1Enacted

5Past committee

7Introduced or inactive

13 bills in scope

Enacted

HF 864A bill for an act requiring persons who operate certain internet sites, applications, or a segment of an internet site or application that contains material pornographic for minors to perform reasonable age verification.1 June 2026Enacted

Past committee

HF 2274A bill for an act requiring persons who operate certain internet sites, applications, or a segment of an internet site or application that contains material pornographic for minors to perform reasonable age verification.19 February 2026Passed committee SF 443A bill for an act relating to certain commercial entities who publish or distribute obscene material on the internet, and providing civil penalties.16 June 2025Passed committee HF 278A bill for an act relating to parental authorization for minors to create accounts on social media platforms, providing civil penalties, and including applicability provisions.5 March 2025Passed committee SF 207A bill for an act relating to civil liability for certain commercial entities who publish or distribute obscene material on the internet.26 February 2025Passed committee SSB 1065A bill for an act relating to electronic devices in schools, including student access during instructional hours, school safety plans, and instruction related to the effects of social media in grades six through eight, and including effective date provisions.18 February 2025Passed committee

Introduced or inactive

HF 2507A bill for an act establishing requirements and guidelines for conversational AI services, and providing civil penalties, and including applicability provisions.15 April 2026Dead HF 2715A bill for an act relating to chatbots, including deployer requirements and interactions with minors.24 February 2026Introduced SF 2197A bill for an act relating to app store provider and app developer requirements concerning minor users, and providing civil penalties, and including applicability provisions.13 February 2026In committee SF 2159A bill for an act relating to materials used for prurient purposes, including age verification requirements for certain commercial entities, prohibitions on the publication, distribution, creation, or development of prohibited material, and prohibitions on child sexual exploitation material, and providing civil penalties.3 February 2026In committee HF 2204A bill for an act relating to the requirements for chatbot deployers, including required protocols, limitations on data collection, and requirements for minors to interact with artificial intelligence companions and therapeutic chatbots, and providing civil penalties, punitive penalties, and civil causes of action.29 January 2026In committee HF 62A bill for an act relating to obscene material available on devices and imposing civil liability on certain entities who publish or distribute obscene material on the internet.21 March 2025Dead HF 592A bill for an act relating to a forensic interview of a minor by law enforcement.25 February 2025In committee

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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.

Other practice areas in Iowa

Children's Online Safety legislation in other jurisdictions

49 more currently hold bills in this tracker

Iowa 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.

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