Children's Online Safety laws and bills in New Jersey

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

Bills in Scope

Past Committee

1 October 2026

Most Recent Action

Children's Online Safety laws enacted in New Jersey in 2026

1 Children's Online Safety bill was enacted in New Jersey this year, the latest with a last action on 11 August 2026. Each links to the New Jersey Legislature's own page.

A 4015"New Jersey Kids Code Act"; adopts New Jersey Age-Appropriate Design Code and requires certain online service providers to implement certain measures concerning minors' use of online service.*11 August 2026

Children's Online Safety bills in New Jersey

1Enacted

7Past committee

1Active in committee

18Introduced or inactive

27 bills in scope

Enacted

A 4015"New Jersey Kids Code Act"; adopts New Jersey Age-Appropriate Design Code and requires certain online service providers to implement certain measures concerning minors' use of online service.*11 August 2026Enacted

Past committee

A 4013Requires Social Media Research Center to research and make recommendations concerning addictive social media behaviors.*30 June 2026Passed committee A 2739Prohibits social media platforms from promoting certain practices or features of eating disorders to child users.18 May 2026Passed chamber A 2738Creates penalty for child endangerment via use of social media.19 February 2026Passed committee A 4302Amends current child labor laws to protect minor working as vlogger in certain circumstances.*12 January 2026Passed chamber A 4664Prohibits social media platforms from promoting certain practices or features of eating disorders to child users.12 January 2026Passed chamber S 3183Amends current child labor laws to protect minor working as vlogger in certain circumstances.*12 January 2026Passed committee S 4153Prohibits social media platforms from promoting certain practices or features of eating disorders to child users.12 January 2026Passed committee

Active in committee

S 4661Prohibits sale of minor's personal data; requires controllers and processors to provide mechanism for requesting deletion of certain personal data.1 October 2026In committee

Introduced or inactive

16 of 18 shown

A 5305Requires age verification to prohibit minors from accessing sexually explicit material online.23 June 2026In committee S 4474Establishes safety requirements for artificial intelligence companion operators.18 June 2026In committee A 5272Establishes safety requirements for artificial intelligence companion operators.15 June 2026In committee S 3993Requires age verification and parent or guardian consent for minor's use of social media platform; prohibits certain messaging between adults and minors on social media platform.19 March 2026In committee S 4016Concerns social media privacy and data management for children and establishes New Jersey Children's Data Protection Commission.19 March 2026In committee S 4035Prohibits social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause child users to become addicted to platform.19 March 2026In committee SR 71Urges Congress and President of US to enact "Kids Online Safety Act."5 February 2026In committee A 1324Requires social media companies to take certain actions concerning accounts maintained by or featuring minors.13 January 2026In committee A 1358Concerns social media privacy and data management for children and establishes New Jersey Children's Data Protection Commission.13 January 2026In committee A 3228Requires entities to verify age of persons accessing certain online material and prohibits minors from accessing certain online material.13 January 2026In committee A 3413Amends current child labor laws to protect minor working as vlogger in certain circumstances.13 January 2026In committee S 1826Requires age verification to prohibit minors from accessing sexually explicit material online.13 January 2026In committee S 2308Broadens statute that criminalizes cyber-harassment of minor.13 January 2026In committee S 4669Requires app stores to verify age of person creating account.30 June 2025In committee S 4455Requires age verification to prohibit minors from accessing sexually explicit material online.19 May 2025In committee A 4146Requires entities to verify age of persons accessing certain online material and prohibits minors from accessing certain online material.4 April 2024In committee

Showing the 25 furthest along of 27. Subscribers see all of them, filtered and searchable. Bill titles link to the New Jersey Legislature's own page.

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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 New Jersey

Children's Online Safety legislation in other jurisdictions

50 more currently hold bills in this tracker

New Jersey 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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