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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 5474

AN ACT CONCERNING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND MINORS.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives on March 24, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To (1) require the owner of a social media platform to incorporate an online safety center into, and establish a cyberbullying policy for, the owner's social media platform, (2) redefine "heightened risk of harm to minors" to include processing minors' personal data in a manner that presents any reasonably foreseeable risk of harm to minors' physical or mental health, and (3) require the controller of an online service, product or feature that is offered to minors to (A) include a default setting in such service, product or feature to prevent adults from sending unsolicited communications to minors, (B) not use any system design feature to significantly increase, sustain or extend minors' use of such service, product or feature, and (C) disclose to the Attorney General a plan established and implemented to mitigate or eliminate any heightened risk of harm to minors.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

5 co-sponsors

Kathy Kennedy, Trenee McGee, Rebecca Martinez, William Heffernan, Gary A. Turco Jr.

Its course

January 17 to March 24, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action13 actions on 10 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 17 to Mar 24 · stopped66 days

Committee on ChildrenJan 17 to Mar 648 days

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Jan 17 – Mar 6

  1. Jan 17Introduced and sent to Committee on Children
  2. Jan 31Heard in Committee on Children
  3. Feb 24Drafted as a bill by Committee on Children
  4. Feb 25Sent to Committee on Children
  5. Mar 6Committee on Children recommended it
All 13 actions, as published
  1. Jan 17REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
  2. Jan 28Reserved for Subject Matter Public HearingBoth houses
  3. Jan 31PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses
  4. Feb 18Vote to DraftBoth houses
  5. Feb 24DRAFTED BY COMMITTEEBoth houses
  6. Feb 25REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
  7. Mar 6Joint FavorableBoth houses
  8. Mar 10FILED WITH LCOBoth houses
  9. Mar 17REFERRED TO OLR, OFABoth houses
  10. Mar 24RPTD. OUT OF LCOBoth houses
  11. Mar 24FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDARHouse of Representatives
  12. Mar 24HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBERHouse of Representatives
  13. Mar 24FILE NO.Both houses