Children's Online Safety laws and bills in Washington
Every bill in the Washington 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 Washington in 2026
1 Children's Online Safety bill was enacted in Washington this year, the latest with a last action on 24 March 2026. Each links to the Washington Legislature's own page.
- HB 2225Concerning regulation of artificial intelligence companion chatbots.24 March 2026
Children's Online Safety bills in Washington
1Enacted
3Past committee
4Introduced or inactive
8 bills in scope
Enacted
1
Past committee
3
Introduced or inactive
4
Bill titles link to the Washington 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
- California18
- Massachusetts18
- Arizona16
- Minnesota15
- South Carolina15
- Texas15
- Hawaii14
- Missouri14
- Iowa13
- Maryland12
- Alabama11
- Connecticut11
- Florida11
- Mississippi11
- Congress11
- Vermont10
- Colorado9
- Louisiana9
- Michigan8
- Montana8
- Ohio8
- Rhode Island8
- Utah8
- 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
Washington 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.