Children's Online Safety laws and bills in Virginia

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

Bills in Scope

Past Committee

2 March 2026

Most Recent Action

Children's Online Safety bills in Virginia

3Enacted

5Past committee

14Introduced or inactive

22 bills in scope

Enacted

HB 2401Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation, trust account.2 May 2025Enacted SB 854Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms, responsibilities and prohibitions to minors.2 May 2025Enacted SB 998Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation, trust account.2 May 2025Enacted

Past committee

SB 796Artificial Intelligence Companion Chatbots and Minors Act; established, enforcement, civil penalty.2 March 2026Passed chamber SB 796Artificial Intelligence Companion Chatbots and Minors Act; established, enforcement, civil penalty.2 March 2026Passed chamber SB 232Consumer Data Protection Act; prohibitions and duties relating to minors.4 February 2026Passed committee SB 232Consumer Data Protection Act; prohibitions and duties relating to minors.4 February 2026Passed committee SB 359Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms, addictive feed.18 November 2024Passed chamber

Introduced or inactive

HB 758Artificial Intelligence Chatbots and Minors Act; established, prohibited practices, penalties.18 February 2026In committee HB 757App Store Accountability Act; civil penalties, civil action.12 February 2026In committee HB 757App Store Accountability Act; civil penalties, civil action.12 February 2026In committee HB 635Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Act; established, prohibited practices, penalties.9 February 2026In committee SB 201Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children, definitions.4 February 2026Dead SB 237App Store Accountability Act; civil penalties, civil action.4 February 2026In committee HB 2294Virginia Social Media Regulation Act; established, penalties.5 February 2025In committee HB 1624Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed prohibited for minors.4 February 2025In committee HB 1816Commercial entity offering social media accounts; restricted hours for minors, civil liability.4 February 2025In committee HB 1817Consumer Data Protection Act; social media, parental consent.4 February 2025In committee SB 783Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children.29 January 2025In committee SB 840Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation, trust account.20 January 2025In committee SB 432Consumer Data Protection Act; protections for children.19 November 2024In committee SB 684Online Children's Safety Protection Act; established, civil penalties.19 November 2024In 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 Virginia

Children's Online Safety legislation in other jurisdictions

50 more currently hold bills in this tracker

Virginia 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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