New Children's Online Safety laws 2027: state children's online safety laws taking effect in 2027

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 1159: Student personal information.

  Requires operators of websites, apps, and online services used for K-12, preschool, or higher education to protect student personal information and prohibits using student data to train artificial intelligence systems.

  Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.

• 1 January 2027

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

  Covered platforms must prevent users under 16 from creating accounts and implementing reasonable measures to block their access to addictive features.

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 1856: Age verification signals: software applications.

  Starting 1 January 2027, operating system providers must provide an accessible account setup interface requiring users to indicate birth date or age, and send age bracket signals to application stores, developers, browser providers, and internet website operators.

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 2: Injuries to children: civil penalties.

  Requires social media platforms generating over one hundred million dollars annually to exercise ordinary care in managing their services or face statutory damages up to one million dollars per injured child.

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 2246: Online service, product, or feature: access by children.

  Requires businesses providing online services, products, or features likely accessed by children to protect privacy, prevent harm, configure high-privacy defaults, and avoid profiling or collecting unnecessary personal information.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 1119: Companion chatbots: children's safety.

  Requires companion chatbot operators to annually assess child safety risks, implement protective measures, publish safety policies, and submit to independent audits starting 1 July 2027.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 1247: Social media platforms: child influencers.

  Requires social media platforms to provide a mechanism for child influencers to request vloggers delete or edit paid content featuring them as minors within 10 business days.

• 1 January 2027

  South Carolina H 4591: Stop Harm from Addictive Social Media

  Requires covered social media platforms to estimate and verify user ages, establish default settings for young users, and obtain parental consent for certain account holders.

• 1 January 2027

  Tennessee SB 1700: Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study of the potential regulation of artificial intelligence systems and generative artificial intelligence chatbots in this state. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 37 and Title 47.

  Requires operators of companion chatbots to prevent them from encouraging self-harm, offering mental health therapy without licensed supervision, or engaging in sexual interactions with minors.

• 1 January 2027

  Vermont S 69: An act relating to an age-appropriate design code

  Requires covered online businesses to comply with age-appropriate design standards when their services are reasonably likely to be accessed by minors under 18 years old.

• 1 January 2027

  Washington HB 2225: Concerning regulation of artificial intelligence companion chatbots.

  Requires operators of AI companion chatbots to disclose that the system is artificial, not human, and implement safeguards against sexually explicit content and manipulative engagement techniques targeting minors.

• 1 July 2027

  Georgia SB 540: Online Internet Safety; certain disclosures related to conversational AI services; require

  Requires operators of AI companion chatbots to disclose they are not natural persons, prevent deceptive claims to minors, restrict sexual content involving minors, and adopt protocols for detecting severe harm.

Next year's children's online safety laws are bills now. Follow them in every state with the Children's Online Safety Legislation Tracker.