HB4057 social media platforms; requirements; minors

Plain English Breakdown

The specific 'general effective date' mentioned in Section 2 is not defined in the provided text, so the final start date cannot be calculated yet.

HB4057: Protecting Children on Social Media Act

This law requires social media platforms in Arizona to set high privacy defaults for minors, allow them to opt out of extra data collection, and stop targeted advertising based on personal information.

What This Bill Does

Requires social media platforms to create settings that give a high degree of privacy protection to users under age eighteen.
Allows minors to choose not to have their personal information collected or used beyond what is necessary for the service.
Prohibits targeting ads at minors using their personal data, except for their age and location.
Gives the Arizona Attorney General exclusive power to enforce these rules without allowing private lawsuits.

Who It Names or Affects

Social media platforms that offer services or features to residents of Arizona under eighteen years old.
Minors living in Arizona who use online social networking applications.
The Arizona Attorney General, who is responsible for enforcing the new requirements.

Terms To Know

Minor: An individual under eighteen years of age who lives in Arizona.
Social media platform: A public or semi-public internet service used to connect users, build profiles, and share content with others. It does not include email-only services, news sites, video games, online stores, or school-related systems.
Personal information: Any data linked to a specific person that is not de-identified or publicly available.

Limits and Unknowns

The law does not apply to email-only services, news sites, video games, online stores, school-related systems, telecommunications services, broadband internet access services, or academic research tools.
The exact date the rules take effect depends on a future general effective date plus one hundred eighty days.

Official Summary Text

HB4057 - social media platforms; requirements; minors

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

HB4057 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
social media platforms; requirements; minors

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 4057

Introduced by

Representatives
Blattman: Villegas

AN
ACT

amending title 18, Arizona Revised
Statutes, by adding chapter 8; relating to information technology.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 18, Arizona Revised Statutes,
is amended by adding chapter 8, to read:

CHAPTER 8

ONLINE PROVIDER REQUIREMENTS FOR MINORS

ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

START_STATUTE
18-801.

Social media platforms; minors; online settings; attorney general
enforcement; definitions

A. Each social media platform in this
state that provides an online service, product or feature to a minor must do
all of the following:

1. Establish settings for the online
service, product or feature that provide a high degree of privacy protections
to each minor who uses
the online service, product or
feature.

2. Allow each minor who uses an
online service, product or feature to opt out of the collection and use of the
minor's personal information beyond what is necessary, as disclosed to the
minor.

3. Not

target advertising to the minor based on the minor's personal
information, except the minor's age and location.

B. The attorney general has the
exclusive authority to enforce a violation of this section.� this section DOES
NOT create a private right of action to enforce a violation of this section.

C.
For the
purposes of this section:

1. "De-identified data"
means data that cannot reasonably be linked to an identified or identifiable
individual or a device linked to the individual if the controller that
possesses the data has done all of the following:

(
a
) taken
reasonable measures to ensure that the data cannot be associated with an
individual.

(
b
) publicly
committed to process the data only in a de-identified fashion and does not
attempt to re-identify the data.

(
c
) contractually
obligated any recipients of the data to satisfy the criteria set forth in
subdivisions (
a
) and (
b
) of this
paragraph.

2. "Minor" means an
individual who is under eighteen years of age and who resides in this state.

3. Online service, product or feature
does not include:

(
a
) A
telecommunications service as defined in 47 United States Code section 153.

(
b
) A broadband
internet access service as defined in 47 Code of Federal Regulations section
54.400.

4. "personal information":

(
a
) means Any
information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or
identifiable individual.

(
b
) Does not
include de-identified data or publicly available information.

5. "social
media platform":

(
a
) means a public or semipublic Internet-based service or
application that meets all of the following:

(
i
) is used by
a consumer in this state.

(
ii
) has the
Primary function of connecting users in order to allow users to interact
socially with each other within the service or application.

(
iii
) allows
users to Construct a public or semipublic profile for the purposes of signing
into and using the PUBLIC OR SEMIPUBLIC INTERNET-BASED service or
application, to Populate a list of other users with whom an individual shares a
social connection within the system and to Create or post content viewable by
other users, including on message boards, in chat rooms or through a landing page
or main feed that presents the user with content generated by other users.

(
b
) Does not
include a public or semipublic Internet-based service or application that meets
any

of the following:

(
i
) Exclusively
provides email.

(
ii
) primarily
consists of news, sports, entertainment, interactive video games, electronic
commerce or content that is preselected by the provider or for which any chat,
comments or interactive functionality is incidental to, directly related to or
dependent on the provision of such content.

(
iii
) is used
by and under the direction of an educational entity, including a learning
management system or a student engagement program.

(
iv
) Facilitates
academic or scholarly research.

END_STATUTE

Sec. 2.
Effective date

This act is effective one hundred
eighty days after the general effective date.

Sec. 3.
Short title

This act shall be known and cited as
the "Protecting Children on Social Media Act".