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HB2991 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet
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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session
AMENDED
FACT SHEET FOR
H.B. 2991
social
media; online content; minors
(
NOW:
social media; age verification; minors
)
Purpose
Effective one year after the general effective date, prescribes duties
for a covered company, developer or social media platform to provide for user
age verification and related online content safeguards for the protection of
minors. Outlines enforcement and penalties for a violation of the prescribed duties.
Establishes the Technology Protection for Minors Grant Fund (Fund).
Background
In 2025, the Legislature enacted the requirement for a commercial entity
that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on an
internet website, including a social media platform, of which more than
one-third is sexual material that is harmful to minors to use reasonable age
verification methods to verify that an individual who attempts to access the
material is 18 years of age or older. A commercial entity or a third-party that
performs the age verification must not: 1) retain any identifying information
of the individual; or 2) cause or allow any identifying information to be
directly or indirectly transmitted to any government entity. A parent or
guardian of a minor who accesses material harmful to minors, and a person whose
identifying information was unlawfully retained or transmitted, have a right of
action against the offending entity (
Laws 2025, Ch. 193
;
A.R.S.
� 18-701
).
In 2025, the Legislature also enacted content restrictions on digital
advertising directed towards children. Beginning January 1, 2027, a
child-directed application must take appropriate measures to prevent the
display of inappropriate and mature advertisements on child-directed
applications.
Inappropriate and mature advertisement
is an advertisement
that sells or promotes: 1) violence; 2) explicit language; 3) sexual content;
or 4) alcohol or drug use. A child-directed application that does not comply
with the content restrictions is subject to a civil penalty of up to $100,000
per violation. The Attorney General must enforce the child-directed application
content restrictions (
Laws 2025, Ch. 198
;
A.R.S.
� 44-1483
).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact
to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
Duties
for Covered Companies
1.
Requires a covered company to:
a)
provide
an accessible interface for an account holder or user to set up an account that
allows the account holder or user to provide a birth date or age in order to
provide the account holder's or user's age signal to developers at the time of
the account set up or at any time thereafter and to provide the account holder
or user with the option to opt in to share the account holder's or user's age
bracket data with the developer for the purposes of providing age-appropriate
content;
b)
obtain
parental or guardian consent before allowing a child to download an application
distributed or made accessible through the covered company's application store,
if the covered company provides an application store;
c)
facilitate
parental or guardian consent for access to an application that is preloaded
onto a device for the first time in response to a request from a developer;
d)
make
controls available that enable account holders to do both of the following:
i.
restrict which applications can be downloaded by a user based on the
applications' age rating within the covered company's application stare; and
ii.
limit the amount of time a user can spend on downloaded applications;
e)
send
only the minimum amount of information that is necessary to comply with the
statutory duties for covered companies; and
f)
on
request, provide a developer, including a developer of the preloaded
application, with an age signal through a real-time application programming
interface on an ongoing basis regarding whether an individual is:
i.
under 13 years of age;
ii.
at least 13 years of age but under 16 years of age;
iii.
at least 16 years of age but under 18 years of age; or
iv.
at least 18 years of age.
2.
Prohibits a covered company from sharing the age signal or parent or
guardian consent signal with a third party for any purpose that is not required
by law.
3.
States that a covered company is not required to share age signals with
a third party, other than with a developer, through an application that is
distributed on the covered company's application store.
Duties of
Developers and Social Media Platforms
4.
Requires a developer to:
a)
on
an individual's account creation or first access, request from a covered
company an age signal and may subsequently request additional age signals; and
b)
if
the date is available, use the age signal from a covered company to:
i.
enforce legally required minimum age restrictions;
ii.
ensure compliance with all laws; and
iii.
provide any age-appropriate defaults, safeguards or experiences as
required by statute.
5.
Requires a developer, if it operates a social media platform, to comply
with the additional requirements prescribed for a social media platform.
6.
Requires a social media platform, if applicable and technically
feasible, to provide readily available features for a parent or guardian to
oversee the use of the application by the parent's or guardian's child as
appropriate to the risks that arise from the child's use of the developer's
application.
7.
Requires the features to include:
a)
the
ability to view metrics reflecting the amount of time that the child is using
the application and set daily time limits on the child's use;
b)
the
ability to see which individuals or accounts are affirmatively linked to the
child's account, including the child's friends, followers and accounts that the
child is following;
c)
the
ability to determine whether the child has limited the public visibility of the
child's account or information and content that is uploaded to the application;
d)
the
ability to see which individuals the child has blocked;
e)
the
ability to submit a report to the application concerning a potential violation
of the developer's terms and policies;
a)
the
ability to display a notification to a user who the social media platform knows
is a minor if the user has spent one cumulative hour on the application during
one calendar day;
b)
the
ability to limit the visibility of a minor's account or profile to connected
users other than the minor's name, username and primary display picture, if
applicable;
c)
reasonable
policies that address exposure to sexually or violently explicit material on
the social media platform;
d)
the
ability to silence notifications between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. local time;
e)
the
ability to prohibit an unconnected user from sending private or direct messages
to a minor user, including through video, voice, text or other messaging, if
applicable; and
f)
the ability to disable the automatic playing of video content without
user action in a personalized recommendation system.
Age Signal
Conflicts
8.
Allows
a developer, if it has clear and convincing evidence that a user's age is
different from the age that is indicated by the age signal received from the
covered company, to use its own internal data.
Enforcement
and Penalties
9.
Allows the Attorney General, in addition to any other remedy available
under state law, to bring an action against a covered company, developer or
commercial entity to:
a)
recover
a civil penalty of no more than $75,000 for each violation;
b)
restrain
or enjoin the covered company, developer or commercial entity from violating
the technology content protection for minors requirements;
c)
seek
injunctive relief;
d)
recover
reasonable attorney fees; and
e)
recover litigation costs and reasonable costs for investigating the
violation.
10.
Requires the Attorney
General to deposit monies collected from an action brought by the Attorney
General in the Fund.
Immunity
from Liability
11.
Grants
a developer or covered company immunity from liability for a violation of the
technology content protection for minors requirements if the developer or
covered company demonstrates that the developer or covered company:
a)
relied
in good faith on the applicable age signal and the age signal indicates that
the user is a child based on the information received through the covered
company's data sharing methods; and
b)
if a developer, complied with the parental control requirements.
12.
States that a developer, in
determining an application's age rating and content description, is not liable
for a violation of the technology content protection for minors requirements if
the developer uses widely adopted industry standards to determine the
application's age category and content description and applies those standards
consistently and in good faith.
13.
States
that the immunity from liability both:
a)
applies
only to actions brought under the technology content protection for minor
statutes; and
b)
does not limit a developer's or covered company's liability under any other
applicable law.
14.
States that the immunity
from liability does not replace any other available remedy or right in state or
federal law.
Compliance
and Nondiscrimination
15.
States that the technology
content protection for minors requirements do not modify, impair or supersede
the operation of any antitrust laws, unless otherwise specified.
16.
Requires
a covered company to comply with the technology content protection for minors
requirements in a nondiscriminatory manner, by doing both of the following:
a)
imposing
the same restrictions and obligations on its own applications and application
distribution as the covered company imposes on third-party applications and
application distributors; and
b)
not using data that is not publicly available and that is collected from
third parties, or consent mechanisms deployed for third parties, in the course
of compliance with the technology content protection for minors requirements to
compete against those third parties, to give the covered company's services
preference relative to those of third parties or to otherwise use this data
that is not publicly available in a manner that is unavailable to those third
parties.
The
Fund
17.
Establishes the Fund
consisting of monies from civil penalties, attorney fees and litigation costs
that are recovered by the Attorney General from action against a covered
company, developer or commercial entity for violation of the technology content
protection for minors requirements.
18.
Requires the Attorney
General to administer the Fund.
19.
States that monies in the
Fund are continuously appropriated and are exempt from lapsing.
20.
Prohibits monies in the Fund
from being transferred to or otherwise made available to any other state fund
or account or from being used for operating expenses of the Attorney General's
Office or staff salaries.
21.
Requires the Attorney
General to use the monies in the Fund solely to award grants to nonprofit
organizations for the following:
a)
outreach programs that provide education to parents, guardians and
minors about online safety, digital literacy and the effects of social media on
the mental health of minors;
b)
programs that provide resources or services to minors who have
experienced harm as a result of violations of the technology content protection
for minors requirements;
c)
research on the effects of social media on the mental and physical
health of minors;
d)
law enforcement programs that investigate violations of the technology
content protection for minors requirements and technology-facilitated harm to
minors;
e)
programs that provide mental health counseling, treatment or support
services to minors who have experienced psychological or emotional harm as a
result of using social media and violations of the technology content
protection for minors requirements; and
f)
programs that provide prevention education, victim services or law
enforcement support related to human trafficking or sexual exploitation of
minors facilitated through social media platforms.
22.
Requires the Attorney
General to establish grant eligibility criteria, application procedures and
reporting requirements for recipients of grants awarded subject to Joint
Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) approval.
23.
Requires
the Attorney General, by January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each
year, to compile a report that includes an accounting of all the monies spent
from the Fund, including:
a)
receipts;
b)
disbursements;
c)
the
current balance of the Fund;
d)
the
name of each grant recipient;
e)
the
amount awarded to each grant recipient; and
f)
the purpose for each grant awarded.
24.
Requires
the Attorney General to submit the reports to all of the following:
a)
the
Governor;
b)
the
President of the Senate;
c)
the
Speaker of the House of Representatives;
d)
the
Minority Leader of the Senate;
e)
the
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives;
f)
the
JLBC Director; and
g)
the Secretary of State.
Definitions
25.
Defines
application
as
a software application or electronic service that a user may run or direct on a
computer, a mobile device or any other general purpose computing device.
26.
Defines
application store
as a publicly available website, software application, electronic service or
platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from
third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device or any other
general purpose computing device.
27.
Defines
child
as an individual
who is under 16 years of age.
28.
Defines
commercial entity
as including a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, a
limited partnership, a sole proprietorship and any other legally recognized
entity.
29.
Defines
covered company
as a person that owns, controls or operates an application store or operating
system that services customers in Arizona.
30.
Excludes, from the
definition of
covered company
, a telecommunications carrier or broadband
provider that solely provides internet access or transmission services without
control over application distribution or operating system functionality.
31.
Defines
daily active users
as the number of unique users in the United States
who used the social media platform at least 80 percent of the days during
either:
a)
the
previous 12-month period; or
b)
the previous one-month period if the social media platform did not exist
during the previous 12-month period.
32.
Defines
developer
as
a person that creates, owns or controls a public-facing website, online
service, online application or mobile application.
33.
Defines
distribute
as
issuing, selling, giving, providing, delivering, transferring, transmitting,
circulating or disseminating by any means.
34.
Defines
infinite
scrolling
as content that is continuously loading or content that loads as
the user scrolls down the webpage without the need to open a separate webpage.
35.
Defines
operating system
as an entity that develops, maintains or distributes an operating system on a
computer, a mobile device or any other general purpose computing device.
36.
Defines
personalized
recommendation system
as a fully or partially automated system used to suggest,
promote or rank a feed of user-generated content based on the user's activity
on the covered social media platform, excluding a recommendation system that
suggests, promotes or ranks content based solely on the user's language, city
or town or age.
37.
Defines
publish
as
communicating or making information available to another person on a publicly
available website or application.
38.
Defines
social media platform
as an online forum, website or application that
satisfies all of the following criteria:
a)
allows
a user to upload content or view the content or activity of other users;
b)
has
at least 10 percent of daily active users who are under 16 years of age and who
on average spent at least two hours per day on the online forum, website or
application during the previous 12 months or if the online forum, website or
application did not exist during the previous 12 months, during the previous
one-month period;
c)
uses
algorithms that analyze user data or information on users to select content for
users;
d)
has
infinite scrolling or seamless content or the use of webpages with no visible
or apparent end or page breaks;
e)
has
push notifications or alerts sent by an online forum, website or application to
inform a user about specific activities or events related to the user's
account;
f)
displays
personal interactive metrics that indicate the number of times other users have
clicked a button to indicate the users' reactions to content or have shared or
reposted the content;
g)
has auto-play
video or video that begins to play without the user first clicking on the video
or on a play button for that video; and
h)
has livestreaming or has a function that allows a user or advertiser to
broadcast live video content in real time.
39.
Excludes, from the
definition of
social media platform
, an online service, website or application
of which the exclusive function is email or direct messaging consisting of
texts, photographs, pictures, images or videos that are shared only between the
sender and the recipients and that are not displayed or posted publicly or to
other users that are not specifically identified by the sender as the
recipients.
Miscellaneous
40.
Contains a severability
clause.
41.
Becomes effective one year
after the general effective date.
Amendments
Adopted by Committee
�
Adopted the strike-everything amendment.
Amendments
Adopted by Committee of the Whole
1.
Specifies that a covered company must provide:
a)
an accessible interface for an account holder or a user to set up an
account that allows the account holder or user to provide a birth date or age
in order to provide an age signal to developers at the time of the account set
up or at any time thereafter; and
b)
the option to opt in to share the account holder's or user's age bracket
data with the developer for the purposes of providing age-appropriate content.
2.
Specifies
that a covered company must facilitate parental or guardian consent for access
to an application that is preloaded onto a device for the first time in
response to a request for a developer.
3.
Removes
the requirement for a covered company to connect the application developer with
the parent or guardian of a child to provide notification of prescribed
parental control features.�
4.
Requires
a covered company to make controls available that enable account holders to:
a)
restrict which applications can be downloaded by a user based on the
applications' age rating within the covered company's application store; and
b)
limit the amount of time a user can spend on downloaded applications.
5.
Requires
a covered company to send only the minimum amount of information that is
necessary to comply with statute.
6.
Prohibits a covered company from sharing the age signal or parent or
guardian consent signal with a third party for any purpose that is not required
by law.
7.
States that a covered company is not required to share age signals with
a third party, other than with a developer, through an application that is
distributed on the covered company's application store.
8.
Removes
the requirement for a developer, on an account creation or first access, to
request from a covered company a parental consent signal.
9.
Specifies
that a developer must use an age signal from a covered company if the data is
available for prescribed age restriction requirements.
10.
Removes the requirement for
a social media platform to implement separate minor default settings.
11.
Recategorizes the prescribed
minor default settings as required parental control features.
12.
Removes as required parental
control features:
a)
the ability to disable the display of personalized recommendation
systems for a child; and
b)
the prohibiting of a minor user from sharing the minor user's real-time
precise geolocation with any other user.
13.
Specifies that, if a
developer has clear and convincing evidence that a user's age is different from
the age signal that the developer received from the covered company, the
developer may use its internal data.
14.
Removes the requirement for
a developer to transmit the conflicting internal age signal back to the covered
company for age reverification.
15.
Removes the requirement for
a commercial entity that knowingly and internationally publishes or distributes
a substantial portion of material that is harmful to minors on an application
to provide prescribed age verification for any person attempting to access the
material.
16.
Removes the authorization
for a minor or minor's parent to bring a civil action against a covered
company, developer or commercial entity for a violation of the technology
protection for minors requirements.
17.
Adds that a covered company
complies with the technology protection for minor requirements in a
nondiscriminatory manner if it does not use data that is not publicly available
for use by third parties.
18.
Renames the
Technology
Content Protection for Minors Grant Fund
as the
Technology Protection
for Minors Grant Fund
.
19.
Modifies the definition of
covered
company
and
social media platform
.
20.
Makes technical and
conforming changes.
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HB2991 - 572R - S Ver
Senate Engrossed
House Bill
social
media; online content; minors
(now: social media;
age verificaton; minors)
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
HOUSE BILL 2991
AN
ACT
amending title 41, chapter 1, article 5,
Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 41-191.14; amending title 44,
Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding chapter 42; relating to minors access to
technology content.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 41, chapter 1, article 5,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 41-191.14, to read:
START_STATUTE
41-191.14.
Technology protection for minors grant fund; exemption; grants;
quarterly reports
A.
The
technology protection for minors grant fund is established consisting of monies
from civil penalties, attorney fees and litigation costs that are recovered by
the attorney general pursuant to section
44-8045.�
The attorney general shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are
continuously appropriated and are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190
relating to lapsing of appropriations.
B. Monies in the fund may not be
transferred to or otherwise made available to any other state fund or account
and may not be used for operating expenses of the attorney general's office or
staff salaries.
C. The attorney general shall use the
monies in the fund solely to award grants to nonprofit organizations for the
following:
1. Outreach programs that provide
education to parents, guardians and minors about online safety, digital
literacy and the effects of social media on the mental health of minors.
2. Programs that provide resources or
services to minors who have experienced harm as a result of violations of
title 44, chapter 42.
3. Research on the effects of social
media on the mental and physical health of minors.
4. Law enforcement programs that
investigate violations of
title 44, chapter 42 and
technology-facilitated harm to minors.
5. Programs that provide mental
health counseling, treatment or support services to minors who have experienced
psychological or emotional harm as a result of using social media and
violations of
title 44, chapter 42.
6. PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE PREVENTION
EDUCATION, VICTIM SERVICES OR LAW ENFORCEMENT SUPPORT RELATED TO HUMAN
TRAFFICKING OR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS FACILITATED THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
PLATFORMS.
D. The attorney general shall
establish grant eligibility criteria, application procedures and reporting
requirements for recipients of grants AWARDED PURSUANT to this SECTION subject
to joint legislative budget committee approval.
E. On or before January 15, April 15,
July 15 and October 15 of each year, the attorney general shall compile a
report that includes an accounting of all the monies spent from the fund,
including:
1. Receipts.
2. Disbursements.
3. The current balance of the fund.
4. The name of each grant recipient.
5. The amount awarded to each grant
recipient.
6. The purpose for each grant
awarded.
F. The attorney general shall submit
the
reports compiled pursuant to subsection e of this
section to all of the following:
1. The governor.
2. The president of the senate.
3. The speaker of the house of
representatives.
4. The minority leader of the senate.
5. The minority leader of the house
of representatives.
6. The director of the joint
legislative budget committee.
7. The secretary of state.
END_STATUTE
Sec. 2. Title 44, Arizona Revised Statutes, is
amended by adding chapter 42, to read:
CHAPTER
42
TECHNOLOGY
CONTENT
ARTICLE
1. SOCIAL MEDIA
START_STATUTE
44-8041.
Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise
requires:
1. "Application" means a
software application or electronic service that a user may run or direct on a
computer, a mobile device or any other general purpose computing device.
2. "Application store"
means a publicly available website, software application, electronic service or
platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from
third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device or any
other general purpose computing device.
3. "Child" means an
individual who is
under sixteen years of age.
4. "Commercial entity"
includes a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, a limited
partnership, a sole proprietorship and any other legally recognized entity.
5. "Covered company"
:
(
a
) means a
person that owns, controls or operates an application store or operating system
that services customers in this state.
(
b
) Does not
include a telecommunications carrier or broadband provider that solely provides
internet access or transmission services without control over application
distribution or operating system functionality.
6. "Daily active users"
means the number of unique users in the united states who used the social media
platform at least eighty percent of the days during either:
(
a
) The
previous twelve-month period.
(
b
) The
previous one-month period if the social media platform did not exist
during the previous twelve-month period.
7. "Developer" means a
person that creates, owns or controls a public-facing website, online
service, online application or mobile application.
8. "Distribute" means to
issue, sell, give, provide, deliver, transfer, transmit, circulate or
disseminate by any means.
9. "Infinite scrolling"
means content that is CONTINUOUSLY loading or content that loads as the user
scrolls down the webpage without the need to open a separate webpage.
10. "Operating system"
means an entity that develops, maintains or distributes an operating system on
a computer, a mobile device or any other general purpose computing device.
11. "personalized recommendation
system":
(
a
) Means a
fully or partially automated system used to suggest, promote or rank a feed of
user-generated content based on the user's activity on the covered
social media platform.
(
b
) Does not
include A recommendation system that suggests, promotes or ranks content based
solely on the user's language, city or town or age.
12. "Social media
platform":
(
a
) Means an
online forum, website or application that satisfies
all
of the following criteria:
(
i
) Allows a
user to upload content or view the content or activity of other users.
(
ii
) Has at least ten percent of daily active users who are
under sixteen years of age and who on average spent at least two hours per day
on the online forum, website or application during the PREVIOUS twelve months
or if the online forum, website or application did not exist during the
previous twelve months, during the previous one-month period.
(
iii
) uses
algorithms that analyze user DATA or information on users to select content for
users.
(
iv
) Has
infinite scrolling or seamless content or the use of webpages with no visible
or apparent end or page breaks, has push notifications or alerts sent by an
online forum, website or application to inform a user about specific activities
or events related to the user's account, displays personal interactive metrics
that indicate the number of times other users have clicked a button to indicate
the users' reactions to content or have shared or reposted the content, has
auto-play video or video that begins to play WITHOUT the user first clicking on
the video or on a play button for that video or has
livestreaming
or a function that allows a user or ADVERTISER to broadcast live video content
in
real time.
(
b
) Does not
include an online service, website or application
of
which the exclusive function is email or direct messaging consisting of
texts, photographs, pictures, images or videos that are shared only
between the sender and the recipients and that are not displayed or posted
publicly or to other users that are not specifically identified by the sender
as the recipients.
END_STATUTE
START_STATUTE
44-8042.
Covered companies; duties; prohibition
A. A
covered company shall:
1. Provide an accessible interface
for an account holder or a user to set up an account that allows the account
holder or the user to provide a birth date or age in order to provide the
account holder's or the user's age signal to developers at the time of the
account set up or at any time thereafter and to provide the account holder or
the user with the option to opt in to share the account holder's or the user's
age bracket data with the developer for the purpose of providing age-appropriate
content.
2. Obtain PARENTAL or guardian
consent before allowing a child to Download an application distributed or made
accessible through the covered company's application store, if the covered
COMPANY provides an application store.
3. Facilitate parental or guardian
consent for Access
to an application
that is preloaded onto a device for the first time
in response to a request from a developer.
4. Make controls available that
enable account holders to do both of the following:
(
a
) Restrict
which applications can be downloaded by a user based on the applications' age
ratings within the covered company's application store.
(
b
) limit the
amount of time a user can spend on downloaded applications.
5. send only the minimum amount of
information that is necessary to comply with this chapter.
6. on request, provide a developer, including a
developer of the
preloaded application, with an age
signal through a real-time application programming interface on an
ongoing basis regarding whether an individual is:
(
a
)
Under thirteen years of age.
(
b
) At least
thirteen years of age but
under sixteen years of age.
(
c
) At least
sixteen years of age but
under eighteen years of age.
(
d
) At least
eighteen years of age.
B. A covered company may not share
the age signal or parent or guardian consent signal with a third party for any
purpose that is not required under this chapter.
C. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this chapter, a covered company is not required to share age
signals with a third party, other than with a developer, through an application
that is distributed on the covered company's application store.
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44-8043.
Developer duties; social media platform duties; minor account
default settings
A. A
developer shall:
1. On
an individual's account creation or first access, Request from a covered
company an age signal and may subsequently request additional age signals.
2.
If the data
is available, Use the age signal from a covered company to:
(
a
) Enforce
legally required minimum age restrictions.
(
b
) Ensure
compliance with all laws.
(
c
) Provide any
age-appropriate defaults, safeguards or experiences as required by this
chapter.
B. In addition to the requirements
prescribed in subsection A of this section, if a developer operates a social
media platform, the developer shall comply with the additional requirements of
this section.
C. If applicable and technically
feasible, a social media PLATFORM shall provide readily available features for
a parent or guardian to oversee the
use of the
application by the parent's or guardian's
child as
APPROPRIATE to the risks that arise from the child's use of the developer's
application. THe features must include:
1. The ability to view metrics
reflecting the amount of time that the child is using the application and set
daily time limits on the child's use.
2. The ability to see which
individuals or accounts are affirmatively linked to the child's account,
including the child's friends
and followers
and accounts that the child is following.
3. The ability to determine whether
the child has limited the public visibility of the child's account or
information and content that is uploaded to the application.
4. The ability to see which
individuals the child has blocked.
5. The ability to submit a report to
the application concerning a potential violation of the developer's terms and
policies.
6. The ability to Display a
notification to a user
who the social media platform
knows is a minor if the user has spent one cumulative hour on the application
during one calendar day.
7. The ability to Limit the
visibility of a minor's account or PROFILE to connected users other than the
minor's name, username and primary display picture
, if
applicable.
8. reasonable policies
that address exposure to sexually or violently explicit material on
the
social media platform.
9. The ability to Silence notifications
between 10:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M. local time.
10. The ability to Prohibit an
UNCONNECTED user from sending private or direct messages to a minor user,
including through video, voice, text or other messaging
,
if applicable.
11. The ability to Disable the
automatic playing of video content WITHOUT user action in a personalized
recommendation system.
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44-8044.
Age signal conflicts
Notwithstanding section 44-8043,
subsection A, If a developer
has clear and convincing
evidence that a user's age is different from the age that is indicated by the
age signal that the developer received from the covered company, the developer
may use the developer's internal data.
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44-8045.
Attorney general; enforcement; penalties
A. In addition to any other remedy
available under state law, the attorney general may bring an action against a
covered company, developer or commercial entity to:
1. Recover a civil penalty of not
more than $75,000 for each violation
of this chapter.
2. Restrain or enjoin the covered
company, developer or commercial entity from violating this chapter.
3. Seek injunctive relief.
4. Recover reasonable attorney fees.
5. Recover litigation costs and
reasonable costs for investigating the violation.
B. The attorney general shall
deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, monies collected
pursuant to this section in the technology protection for minors grant fund
established by section
41-191.14.
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44-8046.
Immunity
A. A
developer or covered company is IMMUNE from liability for a violation of this
chapter if the developer or covered company demonstrates that the developer or
covered company
meets the following:
1. Relied in good faith on the
applicable age signal and
the Age signal indicates that
the user is a child
based on the information received
through the covered company's data sharing methods.
2. If a developer, Complied with the
requirements described in section 44-8043.
b. IN determining an application's
age rating and content description, a developer is not liable for a violation
of this chapter if the developer uses widely adopted industry standards to
determine the application's age category and content description and applies
those standards consistently and in good faith.
C. The immunity described in this
section both:
1. Applies only to actions brought
under this chapter.
2. Does not limit a
developer's or covered company's liability under any other applicable
law.
D. This section does not replace any
other available remedy or right in state or federal law.
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44-8047.
Covered companies; compliance; nondiscrimination; use of data
A. THis
chapter does not modify, impair or supersede the operation of any antitrust
laws, unless otherwise specified.
b. A covered company shall comply
with this chapter in a nondiscriminatory manner
by doing
both of the following:
1.
Imposing the
same restrictions and obligations on
the covered
company's own applications and application distribution as the covered company
imposes on third-party applications and application distributors.
2.
Not using
data that
is not publicly available and that is collected
from third parties, or consent mechanisms deployed for third parties, in the
course of compliance with this chapter to compete against those third parties,
to give the covered company's services preference relative to those of
third parties or to otherwise use this
data that is not
publicly available in a manner that is unavailable to those third parties.
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Sec. 3.
Severability
If a provision of this act or its
application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does
not affect other provisions or applications of the act that can be given effect
without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of
this act are severable.
Sec. 4.
Effective date
Section
41-191.14
, Arizona Revised Statutes,
as
added by this act, and title 44, chapter 42, Arizona Revised Statutes, as added
by this act, are effective one year after the effective date of this act.