Children's Online Safety legislation in West Virginia

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

Bills in Scope

Past Committee

13 August 2026

Most Recent Action

Children's Online Safety bills in West Virginia

1Enacted

3Past committee

16Introduced or inactive

20 bills in scope

Enacted

HB 4412Require certain websites to utilize age verification methods to prevent minors from accessing content13 August 2026Enacted

Past committee

HB 4198E-Verify Safe Harbor Act14 March 2026Passed chamber HCR 101Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance conduct a comprehensive study parental consent measures on software applications downloaded by children under 189 April 2025Passed chamber SB 719Relating to age at which minor can consent to certain medical decisions and services20 March 2025Passed chamber

Introduced or inactive

HB 5178To provide asset preservation for minors who earn income from artistic or creative services for us of their name, image, or likeness4 February 2026In committee SB 679Increasing protection for minors when victims of human trafficking30 January 2026In committee SB 628Prohibiting online distribution of pornographic material to minors27 January 2026In committee SB 630Protecting minors from exposure to indecent displays of sexually explicit nature27 January 2026In committee SB 498Relating to pornography access for minors19 January 2026In committee SB 154Prohibiting digital manipulation of sexually explicit content including minors14 January 2026In committee HB 2609Limiting teen access to inappropriate material.19 March 2025In committee HB 2689Require pornography websites to utilize age verification methods to prevent minors from accessing content11 March 2025In committee SB 633Protecting Kids from Porn Act28 February 2025In committee SB 286Granting parents access to health records of minor child19 February 2025In committee SB 431Protecting minors from exposure to indecent displays of sexually explicit nature13 February 2025In committee SB 164Clarifying parent and guardian access to minor child's medical records12 February 2025In committee SB 254Prohibiting digital manipulation of sexually explicit content including minors12 February 2025In committee SB 268Requiring parental notification of school-based dispensaries of contraceptives to minors12 February 2025In committee SB 287Increasing protection for minors when victims of human trafficking12 February 2025In committee SB 69Requiring parental notification of minors being prescribed contraceptives12 February 2025In committee

Bill titles link to the West Virginia 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.

Other practice areas in West Virginia

Children's Online Safety legislation in other jurisdictions

49 more currently hold bills in this tracker

West 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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