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Age-verification bills to watch

As of October 26, 2026, an adult-site age-verification bill is moving (a hearing, vote or floor debate in the last 90 days) in Canada and Pennsylvania. Congress is weighing 4 federal bills. Other bills that are filed but stalled are listed by place below.

Updated by the Editorial Team

Which bills are moving?

Canada

  • Bill S-209 has passed the Senate and is being debated in the House of Commons. Introduced 28 May 2025; amended in Senate committee (report presented 24 March 2026) and passed by the Senate on 15 April 2026. First reading in the House of Commons on 30 April 2026; the first hour of second-reading debate was held on 24 September 2026.

Pennsylvania

  • SB 603 has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee and awaits a final Senate vote. Would add "Internet protections for minors" to Title 18. A commercial entity that knowingly publishes material harmful to minors on a website where more than 33.3% of the material is harmful to minors must verify visitors' ages through an independent third-party service checking a commercially available identity database, or another commercially reasonable method based on public or private transactional data. Neither the site nor the verifier may keep identifying information. Enforcement is by private lawsuit (damages from a minor's access or from retained data, plus costs and attorney fees); there is no attorney general enforcement. News organizations, internet service providers, search engines and cloud providers are exempt. Senate Judiciary amendment A04281 (PN 1971) made the three-part harmful-to-minors definition conjunctive by changing "or" to "and" before its third prong; the rest is unchanged. Takes effect 90 days after enactment. Prime sponsor Sen. Cris Dush.

What is Congress considering?

  • SCREEN Act (Shielding Children's Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net Act). Would require websites where more than one-third of the material is sexual material harmful to minors to use technology verification measures to keep minors out within a year of enactment, with self-declaration not enough, no government ID required and data kept to what is strictly necessary, enforced by the FTC. passed the House on 29 June 2026 (267–117) as Title I of the KIDS Act (H.R. 7757), which was referred to the Senate Commerce Committee on 13 July 2026; the standalone S. 737 has had no action since referral in February 2025
  • App Store Accountability Act. Would require app stores to verify each user's age category with a commercially available method and, for minors, link the account to a parent and obtain verifiable parental consent before downloads or purchases, sharing age-category data with app developers. H.R. 3149 forwarded by the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee to the full committee on 11 December 2025; S. 1586 in the Senate Commerce Committee with no action since May 2025; not part of the House-passed KIDS Act
  • Interstate Obscenity Definition Act. Would write a definition of 'obscenity' (sexual depictions that, taken as a whole, appeal to prurient interest and lack serious value) into the Communications Act of 1934, and drop the intent-to-harass requirement from the federal offence of making obscene communications (47 U.S.C. 223(a)). referred to committee on 8 May 2025 (Senate Commerce; House Energy and Commerce); no further action
  • Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). Would require online platforms to take steps to address specified harms to minors and offer safeguards and parental tools; the House-passed version states that it does not require age verification. Senate Commerce Committee ordered S. 1748 reported with a substitute on 5 August 2026; a House version passed the House on 29 June 2026 inside the KIDS Act (H.R. 7757), now in the Senate Commerce Committee

Sources for the federal bills are on the US page.

What else is filed?

These bills have been introduced but have not had a hearing, vote or floor debate in the last 90 days, or they deal with related rules such as app stores and social media.

Alaska

  • HB 47. Bill criminalizing AI-generated child sexual abuse material. House floor amendments added a requirement that social media platforms verify users' ages, parental consent for minors' accounts and a default overnight curfew for minors; it did not cover adult websites. Died: passed the House 39-0 on 2026-02-27; the Senate Community and Regional Affairs Committee removed the social media and age-verification sections and reported the bill on 2026-04-10; it was referred to Senate Judiciary with no further action.
  • HB 46. App store bill titled 'App Stores, Parents, and Minors' (age checks and parental consent for minors' app downloads). Died: referred to House Labor and Commerce on 2025-01-22 with no further action in the 34th Legislature.
  • SB 262. Senate bill titled 'Social Media/Minors'. Died: last recorded in Senate Judiciary (status date 2026-05-04); not passed by the 34th Legislature.
  • HB 254. Would have required age verification for websites with a substantial share of pornographic material, and was amended to add a social media ban for young children. Died: passed the House in April 2024; a Senate substitute was referred to Senate Judiciary on 2024-05-06 with no further action.

Arizona

  • HB 2991. As introduced, would have barred social media accounts for under-14s without parental consent, required consent for 14- and 15-year-olds, and added an anonymous age-verification option to the adult-site law (A.R.S. § 18-701). Senate amendments struck the adult-site provision and refocused the bill on app-store and operating-system age signals. Died: passed the House 44-6 on 2026-03-05; the Senate Committee of the Whole adopted amendments on 2026-06-10, but there was no Senate final vote. The Legislature's final disposition is 'Held in Senate'.
  • SB 1747. Senate companion to HB 2991 (social media accounts for minors; anonymous age-verification option for adult sites). Died: passed the Senate 18-11 on 2026-03-10 and was amended in House Commerce on 2026-03-24; final disposition 'Held in House'.

California

  • AB 3080. Among other provisions, would have required websites offering sexually explicit material harmful to minors to verify that users are 18 or older. Died: passed the Assembly 65-0 on 2024-05-16 and Senate Judiciary 11-0, then was held under submission in Senate Appropriations on 2024-08-15.

Colorado

  • HCR26-1002. Proposed constitutional amendment requiring distributors of pornographic material to verify that recipients are 18 or older, with the Legislature to set methods and penalties. Lost: postponed indefinitely 7-4 by the House State, Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee on 2026-04-13.
  • SB25-201. Would have required websites that knowingly publish material harmful to children to verify users' ages and commission annual independent audits of their age checks, starting July 1, 2026. Lost: cleared Senate Health and Human Services 8-1 on 2025-03-27, then was laid over on second reading until 2025-05-08, after the 2025 session had ended.

Connecticut

  • HB 5037. Social media and minors: age determination before personalized feeds, parental consent for minors, and mental health warnings. Not an adult-site bill. Favorable report from the General Law Committee; tabled for the House calendar 2026-03-26; no floor vote before the 2026 session ended.
  • HB 6857. The Attorney General's recommendations on social media and minors, including age verification before personalized feeds. Not an adult-site bill. Passed the House as amended 2025-05-14; tabled on the Senate calendar 2025-05-16; died when the 2025 session ended.

Delaware

  • HB 265. Would have required commercial entities that knowingly provide pornography and other material harmful to minors to verify visitors' ages, with civil liability and a civil penalty for noncompliance; modeled on the Virginia, Utah and Louisiana laws. Reported out of the House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee 2024-01-23; passed the House 31-5 on 2024-06-18; assigned to the Senate Executive Committee; died when the 152nd General Assembly ended.

European Union

  • DSA non-compliance decisions against Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos. Possible fines of up to 6% of global turnover after the platforms reply and the European Board for Digital Services is consulted. pending; no decision found as of 26 October 2026
  • National rollout of age-verification apps. Member states are urged to make a solution available by 31 December 2026. in progress
  • EU social media age limits. In her State of the Union speech on 16 September 2026, President von der Leyen proposed an EU-wide social media ban for under-13s and restricted accounts for 13–15-year-olds; this is not porn-specific. announced; legislative process not completed

Florida

  • SB 1722. App Store Accountability Act: app stores to verify account holders' ages and obtain parental consent for minors. Died in Senate Judiciary Committee 2026-03-13.

France

  • Conseil d'État ruling in the WebGroup Czech Republic case. The Conseil d'État must apply the CJEU's June 2026 answer to the Czech-based operators' challenge to France's age-verification rules. pending; no decision found as of 26 October 2026
  • Arcom July 2026 enforcement wave. Follow-up formal notices, blocking orders and EU referrals for the 31 sites targeted. ongoing

Georgia

  • SB 467. App store age verification and parental consent for minors' downloads/purchases. Introduced 2026-02-05; no further action recorded before the 2025-2026 session ended.

Germany

  • Main proceedings on the 2024 ISP blocking orders. Merits cases in NRW, Berlin and Bavaria, an appeal to OVG Rheinland-Pfalz against the VG Neustadt annulments, and seven related proceedings at OVG NRW involving the 2020 prohibition orders and other foreign porn sites. pending
  • OS youth-protection designations. The competent authority is to designate operating systems subject to the new JMStV duties. due by 2026-12-01

Hawaii

  • HB 1212. Relating to pornographic websites: would have required commercial entities that knowingly publish pornographic material on a website accessible in Hawaii to use an age-verification system. Died: referred to the House Consumer Protection and Commerce and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs committees on 2025-01-27 and carried over to 2026, with no hearing or further action.
  • HB 1198. Relating to minors: would have made commercial entities that publish material harmful to minors without age verification liable for civil penalties. Died: referred to the House Consumer Protection and Commerce and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs committees on 2025-01-27 and carried over to 2026, with no hearing or further action.
  • SB 1542. Age Verification for App Developers and App Stores Act: from July 1, 2027, app stores would verify users' ages and get parental consent before minors download apps, and give parents filters and usage limits. Died: referred to Senate committees on 2025-01-27 and carried over to 2026, with no hearing or further action.
  • SB 2761. Would have required app stores to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent before users under 16 download or buy social media apps, and required social media platforms to use that information. Died: passed the Senate 22-3 on 2026-03-10; the House Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs Committee recommended deferral on 2026-04-01.

Illinois

  • SB 3945 (Adult Content Age Verification Act). Would require commercial entities publishing a substantial portion of material harmful to minors to use reasonable age verification, with Attorney General investigations, injunctions and civil penalties. Filed 2026-02-06 (Sen. Erica Harriss); re-referred to Assignments 2026-05-22; has not passed either chamber. Alive until the 104th General Assembly ends in January 2027.
  • SB 2082 (Adult Content Age Verification Act). Earlier version of the same proposal. Filed 2025-02-06 and referred to Assignments; no committee action (a co-sponsor was added 2026-05-05). Alive until January 2027.

Ireland

  • Protection of Children (Online Age Verification) Bill 2026 (No. 77 of 2026). Private member's bill from Senator Rónán Mullen and eight other senators requiring any website controller that publishes pornographic content to verify the age of anyone in the State before giving access, including to AI-generated content and porn apps in app stores. It applies wherever the site is based. Penalties would reach €500,000 and/or up to 10 years' imprisonment on indictment. It would take effect six months after passing. The Government did not oppose Second Stage but said the bill conflicts with the Digital Services Act's full harmonisation and hosting liability rules and with the GDPR, and gives Coimisiún na Meán no role. First Stage 2 July 2026; Second Stage agreed in Seanad Éireann on 8 July 2026 without a division. Committee Stage was ordered for 14 July 2026 but has not been taken; no further proceedings as of 26 October 2026.
  • Government digital wallet / age-verification tool. The Department of Communications says a new government digital wallet and a separate age-verification tool will 'support compliance' with age restrictions, possibly including porn sites. in development; the wallet was in beta testing in June 2026, and on 8 July 2026 the Minister of State said the age-verification tool will follow the EU blueprint and only confirm whether a user is over 18

Italy

  • Cross-border procedure for EU-established sites. AGCOM must ask home-state authorities (mainly Cyprus) to act and notify the European Commission before applying age-verification duties to EU-based sites. pending; no step reported as of 26 October 2026
  • Other TAR challenges by Italian adult-industry operators. Separate appeals by Italian companies were reported as pending. pending

Kansas

  • SB 372 (App Store Accountability Act). App stores to verify users' age categories, link minors' accounts to parents and obtain parental consent for downloads and purchases. Died: passed the Senate and was reported favorably by the House Federal and State Affairs Committee on 2026-03-18, but never reached a final vote.

Kentucky

  • HB 227. Addictive online platforms: age verification, parental consent and protections for minors on social media platforms, enforced by the Attorney General and private suits. Passed House 96-0 (2026-03-09); last action 2026-04-01 in Senate Judiciary; not enacted before the 2026 session ended.

Maine

  • LD 1873 (HP 1244). An Act to Require Age Verification for Online Obscene Matter (Rep. Katrina Smith). Died. The Judiciary Committee majority reported ought not to pass; the House accepted that report and insisted (2025-06-16); the Senate voted to commit the bill to committee and adhered after a motion to recede failed 15-20 (2025-06-17); placed in legislative files (dead).
  • LD 844 (HP 530). An Act to Regulate Social Media Use by Minors Under 16 Years of Age. Not an adult-site bill. Died: both chambers accepted the majority ought-not-to-pass report on 2025-06-16.

Maryland

  • HB 693. Civil liability for commercial entities that distribute obscene material to minors from certain websites; bars keeping identifying information from age verification (Del. Grammer). Hearing in House Judiciary 2026-03-04; no committee vote; died when the 2026 session ended.
  • HB 908. Civil liability for sites that distribute sexual material harmful to minors without required age verification; bars keeping identifying information (Del. Schmidt). Unfavorable report by House Judiciary; withdrawn 2026-03-16.
  • HB 1179. Application Store Accountability Act: age verification and parental consent through app stores; violations are unfair, abusive or deceptive trade practices. Hearing in House Economic Matters 2026-03-10; no committee vote; died when the 2026 session ended.
  • HB 394. Civil liability for distributing obscene material to minors online and limits on keeping age-verification data (Del. Grammer). Hearing in House Judiciary 2025-02-05; no committee vote; died when the 2025 session ended.

Massachusetts

  • H.1626. Would require operators of "pornographic internet websites" (sexually explicit content over one-third of the site) to verify that visitors are 18 or older through a commercially available database or another commercially reasonable method, and to collect uploaders' signed statements on age and consent; enforced through private civil liability for damages. Referred to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary 2025-02-27; hearing 2025-06-10; accompanied a study order (H.5281) 2026-03-26; no further action.
  • S.2581 (House text H.5349/H.5366). The House version would bar social media accounts for under-14s, require parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds, require platforms to verify users' ages, and ban cellphones during the school day. The Senate version covered school cellphones only. Senate passed 38-2 (2025-07-31); House passed its amended version 129-25 (2026-04-08); Senate did not concur and named conferees (2026-05-07); House insisted and named conferees (2026-05-20); no conference report as of 2026-10-26.
  • S.3164 (reprinted as S.3175). Protecting children from addictive social media feeds: default settings for minors, with attorney general rules on age assurance that must include at least one method not relying on government ID or biometrics. Senate passed 38-2 (2026-07-09); referred to House Ways and Means 2026-07-15; no further action.

Michigan

  • SB 191. Material harmful to minors regulation act: commercial websites where more than 33.33% of material is harmful to minors would have to verify age by digital ID or a commercial system checking government ID or transactional data. Introduced 2025-03-20 (Sen. Thomas Albert) and referred to Senate Regulatory Affairs; no further action.
  • HB 4938 ('Anticorruption of Public Morals Act'). Would ban online distribution of broadly defined 'prohibited material' (felony penalties), require ISPs to filter it and to 'actively monitor and block known circumvention tools' including VPNs and proxies, and ban selling such tools to access prohibited material. Introduced 2025-09-11 (Rep. Josh Schriver) and referred to House Judiciary; no further action.
  • HB 4429 / SB 284. Device and app-store age-signal bills. HB 4429 was discharged from committee and re-referred twice, most recently to House Communications and Technology on 2026-03-19; SB 284 has been in Senate Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection since 2025-05-06.
  • SB 757-760 ('Kids Over Clicks'). Parental consent for minors' addictive feeds, overnight and school-hours notification limits, AI companion restrictions. Passed the Senate 20-17 (2026-04-29); in House committee.
  • HB 4388. Social media age verification and parental consent. Discharged from committee and re-referred twice, most recently to House Communications and Technology on 2026-03-19.

Minnesota

  • HF 1434 / SF 2105. Would require age verification for websites where 25% or more of pages contain material harmful to minors; Commerce commissioner to approve methods; no retention of identifying data; AG enforcement and parent civil actions. Never left the House Commerce committee (a motion to recall it failed 67-67 on 2026-03-26); the 2026 session has adjourned, so it did not pass.

Nevada

  • AB 294. Would have required operators whose primary business is publishing material harmful to minors to set up an age-verification system, with data-security rules, Attorney General civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation and lawsuits by parents or guardians. Died: referred to the Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor on 2025-02-25 and never heard; no further action allowed under Joint Standing Rule 14.3.1 after 2025-04-12.
  • SB 63. Bill on online services' processing of minors' personal data (NELIS summary: 'Revises provisions relating to the processing of certain data'). Died: passed the Senate 13-8 on 2025-05-27 and the Assembly in amended form on 2025-06-02, but the Senate took no further action before the session ended.

New Hampshire

  • SB 648. As passed by the Senate (amendment 2026-1235s): sites where more than half of the content is pornographic would have to verify that users are 18 or older through a third-party ID check or another reasonable method, keep no identifying data, and post a landing-page notice; attorney general enforcement with civil penalties up to $25,000 per violation and $50,000 per knowing data-retention violation; effective 2027-01-01. The introduced version used a one-third threshold and also let parents sue for up to $10,000 per violation. Failed. The Senate rejected the Judiciary Committee's interim-study recommendation and passed the bill as amended by voice vote (2026-03-26); the House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee recommended inexpedient to legislate 15-0 (2026-04-29); the House voted inexpedient to legislate by voice vote (2026-05-14).
  • HB 1658. Parental consent and age verification for app stores (digital application platforms). Failed: House voted inexpedient to legislate by voice vote 2026-03-11 (committee vote 13-0).

New Jersey

  • S1826 / A5305. Would require "sexually oriented online entities" (thresholds of more than one-third of revenue, user accounts or content tied to obscene material) to verify that visitors are 18 or older, using Motor Vehicle Commission license checks, third-party services or the site's own system, with limits on keeping identifying data. A site that fails to verify could be prosecuted under the obscenity-to-minors law (a third-degree crime: 3 to 5 years and a fine up to $15,000) and would face a civil penalty of up to $50,000. S1826 introduced and referred to Senate Judiciary 2026-01-13; A5305 introduced and referred to Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology 2026-06-23; no hearing or committee vote on either as of 2026-10-26.
  • S3993. Age verification and parent or guardian consent for minors' social media accounts; limits certain messaging between adults and minors. Introduced and referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens 2026-03-19; no further action.
  • S4455. Predecessor of S1826 (same synopsis). Introduced and referred to Senate Judiciary 2025-05-19; no further action; died when the 2024-2025 session ended in January 2026.
  • A4146. Would have required entities to verify the age of people accessing certain online material and barred minors from it. Introduced and referred to Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology 2024-04-04; no further action; died when the 2024-2025 session ended in January 2026.

New Mexico

  • HB 44. Would have required commercial entities to verify that visitors are 18 or older (government ID or another commercially reasonable method) before allowing access to a website where more than one-third of the content is material harmful to minors, with a private right of action. Died in the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee (action postponed indefinitely), 2025 session.
  • HB 313. Would have required device, operating-system and app-store makers to determine or estimate a user's age at device activation and send websites, apps and online services an age-range signal. Died in the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee (action postponed indefinitely), 2025 session.

New York

  • S3591 / A3946. Adult-site age verification (new General Business Law § 390-f): sites that distribute sexual material harmful to minors would verify the age of New York visitors; attorney general enforcement with civil penalties up to $50,000 per day. Failed in the Senate Internet and Technology Committee 2026-05-21 (2 aye, 4 nay, 1 aye with reservations); A3946 has not left the Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee.
  • S8102B (similar: A8893). Device-level age assurance: operating system providers would determine a user's age category at device activation and send an encrypted age signal to apps on request; attorney general enforcement up to $10,000 per violation. Not specific to adult sites. A8893 would put a similar duty on device manufacturers. Amended and recommitted to Senate Consumer Protection (print 8102A on 2026-02-25, 8102B on 2026-05-15); A8893 re-referred to Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection 2026-01-07; no floor action.

North Carolina

  • HB 301 (Social Media & AI Safety). Would bar under-14s from social media and require parental consent for 14-15 year olds, with platform age-verification duties. House failed to concur in the Senate committee substitute on 2026-06-23; conference committee appointed 2026-06-24, with no action since.
  • SB 1007 (Human Trafficking Omnibus). Includes a 10% excise tax on the gross receipts of retailers that sell material harmful to minors at physical stores in the state, with proceeds going partly to the Human Trafficking Commission. Filed 2026-04-30; referred to Senate Judiciary, Finance, and Rules committees (last action 2026-06-02).

Ohio

  • HB 84 ('Innocence Act'). Amends R.C. 1349.10 and 1349.101 (sponsors Reps. Steve Demetriou and Josh Williams). As passed by the House it would cover an establishment if either content test is met, define 'significant or substantial' as at least 33⅓%, limit the exemption to interactive computer services that are not such organizations, require a compliance affidavit to the AG, allow civil penalties of up to $100,000 per day, and let the AG act without notice against repeat violators. Passed the House 95-1 on 2026-03-18; referred to Senate Judiciary on 2026-03-25; no Senate action since.

Oklahoma

  • HB 1275 / SB 931. Social media minor-access and age-verification bills. Died without becoming law. HB 1275 passed the House 64-30 on 2025-03-24 and was reported by the Senate Technology and Telecommunications Committee on 2025-04-17, then sat on the Senate General Order calendar; SB 931 was reported by the same committee on 2025-02-04 and placed on General Order on 2025-03-04. Neither shows a later floor vote before the Legislature adjourned sine die in May 2026.

Oregon

  • HB 2032. Would have required commercial entities publishing websites where more than one-third of the material is sexual material harmful to minors to verify users' ages and delete identifying data, enforced through private lawsuits. Died in the House Judiciary Committee when the 2025 session adjourned.
  • HB 3696. Would have required app stores and developers to verify users' ages, sort them into age categories and get parental consent for minors. Died in the House Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee when the 2025 session adjourned.

Rhode Island

  • H 7953 / S 2968 (Social Media Regulation Act). H 7953 would bar Rhode Island minors from holding social media accounts; S 2968 would allow them with a parent's or guardian's express consent. Both would take effect 2027-01-01. Not adult-site bills. Both held for further study in committee (S 2968 on 2026-04-07, H 7953 on 2026-04-08); no further action as of 2026-10-26.
  • H 7746 (Children's Online Safety Act). Online platforms would turn off open chats by default for users determined, through commercially reasonable age-verification methods, to be under 18, and require parental approval of minors' financial transactions on gaming and social media sites; attorney general enforcement with civil penalties up to $5,000 per violation. Introduced 2026-02-12; held for further study by House Innovation, Internet & Technology 2026-04-08; no further action.
  • S 2406 / H 7632 (Age-Appropriate Design Code). Duties for online services, products and features that children are reasonably likely to access. Not an age-verification mandate for adult sites. Held for further study in committee (S 2406 on 2026-03-03, H 7632 on 2026-04-08).

South Carolina

  • H.3405 (App Store Accountability Act). App store age verification and parental consent. has not advanced out of the House

South Dakota

  • HB 1275 (app store age verification). App store age verification. passed House 50-17; defeated in Senate committee (March 2026)
  • SB 180 (app store age verification). App store age verification. rejected in committee (2025)

Spain

  • Proyecto de Ley Orgánica para la protección de las personas menores de edad en los entornos digitales (121/000052). Government bill that would have extended Ley 13/2022's age-verification duties (arts. 88 to 91) to video-sharing platforms established outside the EU that specifically target the Spanish market (a new art. 3.9) and required privacy-protective age verification for the most harmful content; rewritten Penal Code art. 186 to punish anyone who knowingly makes pornography available, by any means, among minors; criminalised sexual deepfakes; and, through parliamentary amendments, restricted under-16s' access to social networks with harmful content. Congress allowed it to proceed in September 2025, and it was at report stage (ponencia) in the Comisión de Justicia, with amendments agreed as late as 29 September 2026. lapsed (caducado) on 6 October 2026, when Real Decreto 806/2026 of 5 October (BOE of 6 October 2026) dissolved the Cortes for the general election of 29 November 2026

Tennessee

  • HB 2254 (app store age verification). App store age verification. died in House subcommittee (2026)

United Kingdom

  • Ofcom investigation into Aylo. Whether Pornhub's reliance on Apple's device-level age check meets the 'highly effective' standard and whether Aylo tested it enough; Ofcom says it is not ruling on how Apple runs its own checks. open (since 22 September 2026)
  • Ofcom report on app-store protections. Statutory report on app-store-level child protections, including age assurance. due by January 2027

Vermont

  • H.301. Age verification for social media. Not an adult-site bill. Referred to House Commerce and Economic Development 2025-02-21; no further action.
  • H.897. Would prohibit the use of social media by children. Not an adult-site bill. Referred to House Commerce and Economic Development 2026-02-11; no further action.

Virginia

  • SB 237 / HB 757 (App Store Accountability Act). App store age verification and parental consent. continued to the 2027 session for further study (JCOTS)

Washington

  • HB 2112. Would have required sites where more than one-third of the material is sexual material harmful to minors to verify that users are 18 or older (digital ID, government ID or transactional data), barred keeping identifying data, required Department of Health warning notices on landing pages and ads, and let the Attorney General seek civil penalties of up to $10,000 per day of noncompliance. Died: heard in the House Consumer Protection and Business Committee on 2026-01-16 but never voted out; it did not pass before the 2026 session ended.
  • SB 5708 / HB 1834. Attorney General-requested bills limiting addictive social media feeds for minors; operators would have had to reasonably determine that a user is not a minor, using proportionate age assurance. Died: SB 5708 passed the Senate 36-12 on 2025-03-12 but was not taken up by the House; both bills were moved to their chamber's Rules 'X' file in February 2026.
  • SB 6111. Senate bill on minors and digital services (short description: 'Minors/digital services'). Died in Senate committee without a floor vote (2026 session).

Wisconsin

  • AB 105 / SB 130. Would have required age verification (government ID or transactional data) for websites where more than one-third of material is harmful to minors, enforced by private lawsuits for damages (creating Wis. Stat. § 100.76). As introduced it would also have required sites to block traffic from known VPN IP addresses; Senate Amendment 2 removed that on 2026-02-18. Vetoed by Gov. Evers 2026-04-03 (Assembly passed 69-22 on 2025-03-20; Senate concurred as amended 2026-02-18; Assembly concurred 2026-02-19). On 2026-05-13 it was recorded as failing to pass notwithstanding the veto under Joint Rule 82; no override vote was taken. Companion SB 130 failed 2026-03-23.
  • AB 961 / SB 938. Warning labels on explicit content: a full-screen warning shown before access, plus metadata tags and print warnings. Passed Assembly 61-34 (2026-02-19); failed in the Senate 2026-03-23 under Senate Joint Resolution 1.
  • AB 962 / SB 937. App store age verification and parental consent. Passed Assembly 58-37 (2026-02-19); Senate failed to concur 2026-03-23.
  • AB 963 / SB 936. Social media age verification and parental consent for minors. Passed Assembly 60-35 (2026-02-19); Senate failed to concur 2026-03-23.

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