SB 1438: Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors

GENERAL BILL by Grall

Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors; Requiring a developer to, beginning on a specified date, make specific determinations about covered applications, provide notice to application stores about such applications, and provide certain features for parents to protect a user that is a child; requiring a covered manufacturer to, beginning on a specified date, take certain steps to determine specified information about the user, provide certain notices, and provide developers of covered applications with a specified means to verify the age of a user; providing requirements for devices sold before a specified date; providing construction, etc.

Current Bill Version Posted: 2/26/2025 04:33 PM

• Senate Committee References (3)

  1. Commerce and Tourism (CM)
  2. Judiciary (JU)
  3. Rules (RC)

• Related Bills (3)

  Bill Number Subject Filed By Last Action and Location	Relationship Learn more about bill relationships
  H 931 by Sirois Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors Last Action: 3/4/2025 H 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)	Identical
  H 1503 by Salzman Harm to Minors Last Action: 3/5/2025 H Now in Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee	Compare
  S 1718 by Ingoglia Harm to Minors Last Action: 3/10/2025 S Introduced	Compare

• Analyses (1)

  Links in this section are PDF documents.

  • Commerce and Tourism (Pre-Meeting)   3/24/2025

• Citations - Statute (3)

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  282.803		Page 2 [pdf]
  501.1737	Age verification for online access to materials harmful to minors.	Page 8 [pdf]
  501.1741		Page 17 [pdf]

• Bill History

  S = Senate, H = House

  2/26/2025	S	• Filed
  3/6/2025	S	• Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Judiciary; Rules
  3/10/2025	S	• Introduced
  3/12/2025	S	• On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/17/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
  3/20/2025	S	• On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/25/25, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed