Social media and minors laws by state

191 bills on social media and minors in 43 jurisdictions, 15 of them enacted in 2025 and 2026. The laws come first, with what each requires, then the bills that moved most recently.

  • 15 laws enacted in 2025 and 2026, in 11 states. Most: California (4), Louisiana (2), Connecticut (1).
  • 191 bills in 43 jurisdictions, 21 of them in Congress. Latest action 19 October 2026.

Updated 2 November 2026LawsRecent billsBy state

Enacted in 2025 and 2026

15 laws, by state. Laws enacted before 2025 are not listed.

California

  • Enacted

    SB 1247: Social media platforms: child influencers.

    A social media platform must provide a clear and conspicuous mechanism for a child influencer to request a vlogger to delete or edit paid content featuring the child influencer as a minor. A vlogger must delete or edit such content within 10 business days of receiving the request so the child influencer is no longer featured.

    Takes effect 1 January 2027

  • Enacted

    AB 1709: Covered platforms: age restriction: e-Safety Advisory Commission.

    Covered platforms must not permit users under 16 years of age to create or maintain accounts and must implement reasonable measures to prevent such users from accessing accounts. Covered platforms must verify user age pursuant to the Digital Age Assurance Act and delete accounts of users under 16 along with associated personal information.

    Takes effect 1 January 2027

  • Enacted

    AB 2: Injuries to children: civil penalties.

    A social media platform that generates more than one hundred million dollars per year in gross revenues and violates Section 1714 subdivision (a) by causing injury to a child shall be liable for statutory damages. Waivers of this section are void and unenforceable.

    Takes effect 1 January 2027

  • Enacted

    AB 56: Social media: warning labels.

    Covered platforms must display a black box warning to users under 18 when they initially access the platform daily, after 3 hours of cumulative active use, and thereafter at least once per hour. The initial warning must display for at least 10 seconds and occupy at least 25 percent of the screen. Subsequent warnings must display for at least 30 seconds and occupy at least 75 percent of the screen without bypass options.

Connecticut

  • Enacted

    SB 1295: An act concerning broadband internet, gaming, social media, online services and consumer contracts.

    Qualified broadband internet access service providers must offer affordable broadband service costing no more than forty dollars monthly to eligible households by October 1, 2026, meeting minimum speed requirements of 100 Mbps downstream and 5-20 Mbps upstream depending on date. Providers must make commercially reasonable efforts to publicize availability and submit annual reports to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

    Took effect 1 July 2026

Idaho

  • Enacted

    H 542: SOCIAL MEDIA – Adds to existing law to establish the Stop Harms from Addictive Social Media Act.

    Covered social media platforms must obtain verifiable parental consent before creating or maintaining accounts for children under 17. Platforms must estimate account holder age within 14 days of first trigger date and prohibit addictive interface features and profile-based paid advertising to children. Platforms must set child accounts to maximum privacy by default.

    Took effect 1 July 2026

Louisiana

  • Enacted

    HB 427: CONTRACTS: Provides relative to the duty of care for online platforms that contract with minors

  • Enacted

    HB 37: CONTRACTS: Establishes a duty of care for online platforms who contract with minors

    Every owner or operator of a covered platform who contracts with a minor must prohibit adults from connecting to minors unless the minor initiates contact, prohibit adults from sending private messages to minors unless connected, prohibit disclosing a minor's geolocation to non-legal representatives, and prohibit adults from viewing a minor's profile unless connected. Covered platforms must notify legal representatives within twenty-four hours of microtransactions, exposure to sexually explicit material, or adult-minor connections.

    Took effect 1 June 2026

Minnesota

  • Enacted

    HF 4138: Social media platform requirements established relating to accounts for minors, and enforcement mechanisms established for regulations on child social media accounts.

    Covered social media platforms must obtain verifiable parental consent before creating or maintaining accounts for children age 15 or younger. Platforms must set child accounts to maximum privacy by default, prohibit addictive interface features and targeted paid advertising on child accounts, estimate user ages within specified timeframes and confidence thresholds, and terminate child accounts upon request within seven days.

Mississippi

  • Enacted

    HB 1224: MS Keeping Kids Safe Online Act;

    Interactive computer service providers must not enter contracts with minors without prior express parental consent. Providers must not knowingly allow minors to access material harmful to minors, allow adults to communicate with minors, or make any part of a minor's persona accessible to others. Providers may comply through reasonable age verification or obtaining written parental consent with continuous usage history access.

    Took effect 1 July 2026

Nebraska

  • Enacted

    LB 383: Adopt the Parental Rights in Social Media Act, rename the Child Pornography Prevention Act, and prohibit conduct involving computer-generated child pornography

    Social media companies must verify age using reasonable methods before allowing account holders. Minors may only become account holders with express parental consent verified through age verification and signed parental authorization. Parents must receive methods to supervise minor accounts including viewing posts, messages, privacy settings, and monitoring time spent.

New Jersey

  • Enacted

    S 3412: Requires Social Media Research Center to research and make recommendations concerning addictive social media behaviors.*

    The Social Media Research Center, in coordination with the Office of Youth Online Mental Health Safety and Awareness, shall research and make recommendations regarding the impact of addictive social media behaviors on covered children and covered minors, the structure and design of warning labels, the impact of warning labels in reducing addictive behaviors, and mandatory disclaimers in advertising.

New York

  • Enacted

    S 4505: Relates to warning labels on certain social media platforms

    Covered operators must display a warning label each time a covered user accesses an addictive social media platform that offers an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications. Covered operators must not obscure, exclude from terms of service, display at wrong times, or deploy mechanisms to inhibit the warning label's purpose.

South Carolina

  • Enacted

    H 4591: Stop Harm from Addictive Social Media

    Covered social media platforms must estimate account holder age within fourteen days of first trigger date, treat those under sixteen as children unless eighty percent confident they are over fifteen, obtain verifiable parental consent before creating or maintaining child accounts, set child accounts to maximum privacy by default, prohibit addictive interface features and profile-based paid advertising for children, and terminate child accounts lacking parental consent.

    Takes effect 1 January 2027

Virginia

  • Enacted

    SB 854: Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms, responsibilities and prohibitions to minors.

    Controllers and processors operating social media platforms must use commercially reasonable methods to determine if a user is a minor and limit minors' daily use to one hour per service or application, allowing parents to adjust limits with verifiable consent. Age-determination information cannot be used for other purposes.

    Took effect 1 January 2026

Bills that moved most recently

The 25 open social media and minors bills with the latest action. The Children's Online Safety Tracker follows all 191.

  • New Jersey A 5700: Establishes Youth Well-Being and Digital Accountability Act and Fund; creates independent authority to administer funds from social media settlements once threshold is met.

    What it would do: Establishes an independent Youth Well-Being and Digital Accountability Authority and Fund to receive and administer settlement proceeds from social media and technology companies, commencing full operation once cumulative committed settlement proceeds equal or exceed $100 million.

    In committee

  • New Jersey S 4831: Establishes Youth Well-Being and Digital Accountability Act and Fund; creates independent authority to administer funds from social media settlements once threshold is met.

    What it would do: Establishes an independent Youth Well-Being and Digital Accountability Authority and Fund to receive and administer settlement proceeds from social media and digital technology companies, commencing full operation once cumulative committed settlement proceeds equal or exceed $100 million.

    In committee

  • New York A 10841: Protects minors online from addictive features of social media

    What it would do: Prohibits social media platforms from allowing minors under 14 to have accounts and requires parental consent for ages 14-15. Requires age verification to prevent minors under 18 from accessing harmful material. Allows the attorney general and minors to sue for violations with civil penalties up to fifty thousand dollars.

    In committee

  • Congress S. 3618: No Fentanyl on Social Media Act of 2026

    What it would do: Requires the Federal Trade Commission, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and Drug Enforcement Administration, to submit a report to Congress within one year on minors' ability to access fentanyl through social media platforms, including prevalence, health impacts, marketing tactics, platform design features, and recommendations.

    Passed committee

  • Congress H.R. 10337: 16 & Up Social Media Act

    What it would do: Prohibits covered social media platforms from allowing individuals under 16 to create or maintain accounts, requiring termination of existing accounts within 180 days and deletion of personal data, with a 90-day window for users to download their data and an appeal process to challenge age determinations.

    In committee

  • Congress H.R. 6488: RESET Act

    What it would do: Prohibits covered platforms from allowing individuals under 16 to create or maintain accounts. Requires platforms to identify and terminate existing minor accounts within 180 days, delete their personal data, and allow 90-day access to download data. Violations are treated as FTC unfair practices.

    In committee

  • Pennsylvania SR 356: A Resolution designating the week of August 17 through 23, 2026, as "Social Media Safety and Parental Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.

    What it would do: Designates the week of August 17 through 23, 2026, as 'Social Media Safety and Parental Awareness Week' in Pennsylvania and encourages educational programming and public awareness efforts to prevent sextortion and protect minors from online exploitation.

    In committee

  • Congress S. 1748: Kids Online Safety Act

    What it would do: Requires covered online platforms to exercise reasonable care in design features to prevent harms to minors including eating disorders, substance abuse, and sexual exploitation. Mandates safeguards, parental tools, transparency reporting, and prohibits opaque algorithms without user opt-out options.

    Passed committee

  • Congress S. 4199: Youth AI Privacy Act

    What it would do: Requires AI chatbot deployers to disclose to minors that they are not interacting with humans, prohibits personalization based on user data, bans compulsive-use features, restricts advertising, and prohibits processing minor user data for profiling or algorithm training, with FTC enforcement and private right of action for parents.

    Passed committee

  • Congress S. 5226: Parental Approval for Youth Social Media Act of 2026

    What it would do: Requires social media platform providers to obtain verifiable parental consent before allowing children under 16 to create or maintain accounts, and mandates parent-supervised accounts with oversight tools. Treats violations as unfair or deceptive practices enforceable by the FTC and state attorneys general.

    In committee

  • Massachusetts S 3175: An Act protecting children from addictive social media feeds

    What it would do: Requires social media platforms to disable addictive feeds, push notifications, autoplay, and infinite scroll by default for minors, restrict minor account visibility to connected accounts only, and report quarterly de-identified data on minor usage to the attorney general.

    Passed chamber

  • Massachusetts S 30: An Act protecting children from addictive social media feeds

    What it would do: Prohibits operators of addictive social media platforms from providing algorithmically-curated feeds or sending notifications between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m. to minors under 18, requiring commercially reasonable age verification methods. Authorizes the attorney general to enforce with civil penalties up to $5,000 per violation.

    Passed committee

  • Massachusetts S 3164: An Act protecting children from addictive social media feeds

    What it would do: Requires social media platforms to disable addictive feeds, push notifications, autoplay, and infinite scroll by default for minors and users who opt out of age verification, and restricts minors' account visibility, geolocation sharing, and messaging to connected accounts only.

    Floor vote

  • New Jersey A 4013: Requires Social Media Research Center to research and make recommendations concerning addictive social media behaviors.*

    What it would do: Requires the Social Media Research Center to research and make recommendations regarding addictive social media behaviors among children and minors, including the impact and design of warning labels on covered online service providers' platforms, and to issue a final report within 18 months.

    Passed committee

  • Illinois SB 3454: Better social media feeds act

    What it would do: Requires covered online platforms conducting business in Illinois to disclose their algorithmic recommender systems, inputs, and weights, and to configure such systems by default to maximize long-term user value rather than engagement, effective January 1, 2027.

    In committee

  • North Carolina HB 301: Social Media and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety.

    What it would do: Prohibits social media platforms from allowing minors under 16 to create accounts, requiring termination of existing accounts for those under 14 and parental consent for ages 14-15. Requires age verification for websites distributing material harmful to minors.

    Passed chamber

  • Congress S. 4855: SAFE KIDS Act

    What it would do: Requires AI chatbot providers to implement child safety measures including risk assessments, parental controls, crisis protocols, and annual independent audits. Prohibits child-targeted advertising and sale or sharing of children's personal information without parental consent.

    In committee

  • Congress S. 4741: SAFE for Kids Act of 2026

    What it would do: Requires commercial entities that publish material more than one-third sexual content harmful to minors to implement age verification systems preventing minors from accessing such material. Establishes FTC and DOJ enforcement, criminal penalties up to 5 years imprisonment, and private civil actions.

    In committee

  • Arizona HB 2991: social media; online content; minors

    What it would do: Establishes a grant fund for nonprofits providing online safety education and mental health services to minors, and requires social media platforms and app stores to obtain parental consent for children under 16, provide age signals, and implement safety features like time limits and message restrictions.

    Passed chamber

  • New York S 825: Establishes protections for minors who are featured in compensated video content

    What it would do: Requires content creators to establish trust accounts for minors featured in at least 30% of compensated video content, set aside a percentage of gross earnings for the minor, maintain detailed records, and allows minors 13+ to request permanent deletion of content from online platforms.

    Passed chamber

  • Michigan SB 996: Communications: social media; regulating access to social media companies by minors act; create. Creates new act.

    What it would do: Prohibits social media companies from allowing individuals under 16 to access social media platforms or create accounts. Requires express written parental consent for individuals 16 to 18 years old. Authorizes the attorney general to impose civil fines of $25,000 per day for violations.

    In committee

  • New Jersey A 2739: Prohibits social media platforms from promoting certain practices or features of eating disorders to child users.

    What it would do: Prohibits social media platforms from using designs, algorithms, practices, or features that could cause child users to develop eating disorders, including promoting diet products. Platforms may avoid liability by conducting quarterly internal audits and annual third-party audits, correcting issues within 30 days, or generating less than $100 million in annual revenue. Violations incur civil penalties up to $250,000.

    Passed chamber

  • Missouri HB 1818: Creates provisions relating to regulation of online content involving minors

    What it would do: Requires content creators to set aside a percentage of earnings in trust accounts for minors whose likenesses appear in compensated content meeting specified thresholds, maintain detailed records, and allows former minors to request deletion of their childhood content after August 28, 2026. Prohibits profiting from restricted material involving minors.

    Passed committee

  • Minnesota SF 4696: Social media platforms requirements establishment related to accounts for minors

    What it would do: Requires covered social media platforms earning at least $1 billion in annual advertising revenue to estimate user age, obtain verifiable parental consent for child accounts, prohibit addictive interface features and targeted advertising to children under 16, and provide parents monitoring and time-limit controls.

    Passed committee

  • Ohio HB 808: Require warning labels on addictive social media platforms

    What it would do: Prohibits covered operators from providing addictive social media platforms to Ohio users unless a warning label is displayed each time users access the platform. Requires the director of behavioral health to design warning labels based on research about harms to users, particularly minors.

    In committee

Social media and minors laws, state by state

Questions

Which states have social media and minors laws?

States that enacted social media and minors laws in 2025 and 2026: California (4), Louisiana (2), Connecticut (1), Idaho (1), Minnesota (1), Mississippi (1), Nebraska (1), New Jersey (1), New York (1), South Carolina (1) and Virginia (1). Laws enacted before 2025 are not listed here.

Which states have the most social media and minors bills?

Congress (21), New Jersey (14), New York (13), Massachusetts (9) and Oklahoma (8). In all, 191 bills in 43 jurisdictions, the latest action on 19 October 2026.

What do social media and minors bills cover?

Social media accounts, feeds, design features, addictive algorithms and content duties toward minors. Each enacted law above has a line on what it requires.

Is this legal advice?

No. Which bills count as social media and minors bills, and the line on what each law requires or each bill would do, are drafted by software and not reviewed by an attorney. Every bill links to the legislature’s own record: read the text before relying on it. The list covers bills from the 2025 and 2026 sessions.

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