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HB 463 KY
Passed One Chamber

AN ACT relating to the protection of children using social media.

KY · session 2024RS · Assembly / House · bill

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Introduced Feb 5, 2024

Latest action (Mar 8, 2024) to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)

Summary

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; specify what entities are subject to this Act; require digital service providers to register the age of the user; specify the duties of digital services providers relating to agreements with minors; require digital service providers to develop internal controls to prevent minors from being exposed to obscene matter, create parental monitoring tools, prevent advertising certain goods and services to minors, and provide information related to algorithms and content promotion; provide that digital service providers are not required to disclose trade secrets; provide exceptions for when a digital service provider may share a minor's personally identifying information; require digital service providers to develop a commercially reasonable method for verifying caregivers; require digital service providers to create a method for a minor's verified caregiver to gain access to a minor's personally identifying information; provide that the Department for Community Based Services has authority over the powers of a verified caregiver for minors in its custody; provide that a violation of the Act is a deceptive act or practice in the conduct of trade or commerce; provide that a parent or guardian has a private right of action for violations.

Sponsors (6)

Action history (11)

  1. Feb 5, 2024 introduced in House · lower
  2. Feb 5, 2024 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
  3. Feb 26, 2024 to Small Business & Information Technology (H) · lower
  4. Feb 28, 2024 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) · lower
  5. Feb 29, 2024 2nd reading, to Rules · lower
  6. Mar 1, 2024 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 04, 2024 · lower
  7. Mar 4, 2024 floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute · lower
  8. Mar 5, 2024 3rd reading, passed 94-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (1) · lower
  9. Mar 6, 2024 received in Senate · upper
  10. Mar 6, 2024 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
  11. Mar 8, 2024 to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) · upper
Subjects
Attorney GeneralChildren and MinorsCommerceConsumer AffairsData ProcessingObscenity and PornographyParental Rights

Text versions (2)

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  • Current/Final · PDF
  • Introduced · PDF

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