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online platforms to establish safeguards for minors. The safeguards include (1) limiting access to specified sexual material, (2) providing parental controls on social media and online video game platforms, and (3) requiring artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to disclose certain information to users who are minors."},{"k":"p","t":"First, publicly available online platforms on which more than one-third of the content is considered sexual material harmful to minors under the bill must adopt technology to identify minors and prevent them from accessing such material."},{"k":"p","t":"Next, social media platforms must (1) implement default settings for minors that limit compulsive usage features and the ability of other users to communicate with minors, and (2) provide tools for parents to manage the privacy and account settings of a minor. Social media platforms may not allow ephemeral messaging features for minors."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill also requires online video game platforms to provide tools that allow parents to (1) limit communication between a minor and other users of the platform, and (2) restrict purchases by a minor on the platform."},{"k":"p","t":"Further, providers of AI chatbots must disclose to users who are minors (1) that the chatbot is an AI system and not a human, and (2) suicide and crisis intervention hotline information."},{"k":"p","t":"Finally, the bill requires specified studies and reports about the effects of social media platforms on minors and provides for enforcement of the bill's requirements by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general."}],"words":251},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Sets requirements for online platforms, online video game providers and AI chatbot providers with respect to users who are minors, amends the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to cover teens, and requires studies, reports and Federal Trade Commission and State enforcement.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 103","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-H415ABC98ADFF44468DD065CC74E37B30"},{"label":"Sec. 214","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-HA1E37614F79C4EB6B760CFE92C4F96AD"},{"label":"Sec. 303","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-HB950E871B3E749359AB437AB7DB9E4F1"},{"label":"Sec. 404","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-HF3468C4EE23C496B8BF2225F9A80C438"},{"label":"Sec. 602","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-HB9724D1D33034813BB81A317A364A56D"},{"label":"Sec. 701","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-H26A06CE4110D4E1697065DF4B070FA9B"}]},"core_areas":["Age verification for websites with sexual material 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safeguards, such as limiting who can communicate with them, and to set each safeguard by default to the most protective level available.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 214","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-HA1E37614F79C4EB6B760CFE92C4F96AD"}},{"text":"Requires providers of covered platforms to provide parental tools for parents of users they know are minors, including viewing privacy and account settings and restricting purchases and time spent.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 214","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-HA1E37614F79C4EB6B760CFE92C4F96AD"}},{"text":"Requires providers of covered platforms to maintain reasonable policies addressing threats of physical violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, narcotic drugs, tobacco, cannabis, gambling, alcohol, and financial harm caused by deceptive practices.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 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resources for contacting a suicide and crisis intervention hotline.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 404","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-HF3468C4EE23C496B8BF2225F9A80C438"}},{"text":"Amends the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to define a child as under 14 and a teen as 14 to under 18, and to make it unlawful to use a child's or teen's personal information for individual-specific advertising.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 602","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-HB9724D1D33034813BB81A317A364A56D"}},{"text":"Requires covered data brokers to register with the Federal Trade Commission within 12 months of enactment and annually, and lets the Commission charge an annual fee of at least $22,500.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 612","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-H8EEF888B20524FD389D2ABEDAA0F0745"}},{"text":"Treats a violation of the Act as a violation of a Federal Trade Commission rule on unfair or deceptive acts or practices, and lets State attorneys general bring civil actions in federal district court.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 701","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-H26A06CE4110D4E1697065DF4B070FA9B"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 502","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7757/text/eh#toc-HC0DB5539EDF44D19841371ECBD6068A7"},"heading":"Exemption","effect":"Exempts the research subtitle from the Paperwork Reduction Act, so the federal information-collection review process in that law does not apply to it.","amount":null,"quote":"Subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code (commonly known as the “Paperwork Reduction Act”) does not apply to this subtitle."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 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H.R. 7757, 119th Congress: KIDS Act. House: 267 Yea, 117 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 29 Jun 2026."}}