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HB4082 • 2026

social media platforms; user restrictions

HB4082 - social media platforms; user restrictions

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Aaron Márquez, Neal Carter, Junelle Cavero, Matt Gress, Michael Way
Last action
2026-02-12
Official status
House second read
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The effective date is not listed in the official text or metadata, so it remains unknown when these rules begin.

HB4082 - Rules for Social Media Users Under Age 16

This law requires social media platforms to stop users under age 16 from accessing content and interacting online.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires platforms to block users younger than 16 from accessing online social media content or engaging in online social interaction.
  • Mandates that companies take reasonable steps to prevent children under 16 from creating accounts.
  • Orders platforms to create safety features, default settings, and internal alert systems for underage access attempts.
  • Demands a written policy listing identified risks and the specific rules used to reduce those risks.
  • Requires an annual review of potential harms and how well current safety measures work.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Owners or providers of social media platforms
  • Users who are under sixteen years of age
  • The Attorney General, who may investigate violations

Terms To Know

Social media platform
An online service that lets users share material for social purposes and interact with each other.
Online social interaction
Sharing content or communicating on a site for social reasons, not including business deals.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not state the specific date it will take effect.
  • The text defines what counts as online interaction but does not list every type of app covered by name.
  • The law requires 'reasonable' steps and safeguards without defining exactly how much effort is needed.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-12 House

    House second read

  2. 2026-02-11 House

    House Rules: None

  3. 2026-02-11 House

    House Commerce: None

  4. 2026-02-11 House

    House first read

Official Summary Text

HB4082 - social media platforms; user restrictions

Current Bill Text

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HB4082 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
social media platforms; user restrictions

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 4082

Introduced by

Representatives
M�rquez: Carter N, Cavero, Gress, Way

AN
ACT

amending title 44, chapter 9, arizona
revised statutes, by adding article 27; relating to commerce.

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

Section 1. Title 44, chapter 9, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended by adding article 27, to read:

ARTICLE 27. SOCIAL MEDIA
PLATFORMS

START_STATUTE
44-1383.

Social media platforms; age restriction; requirements; attorney
general; enforcement; definitions

A. A social media platform shall
restrict A user who is under sixteen years of age from accessing online social
media content and from engaging in online social interaction.

B. An owner or a provider of a social
media platform shall:

1. Take reasonable steps to prevent a
user who is under sixteen years of age from creating an account with the social
media platform and from engaging in online social interaction.

2. Create, maintain and document
reasonable safety measures that include all of the following:

(
a
) Age-appropriate
design features.

(
b
) Default
safety settings to prevent a user who is under sixteen years of age from
accessing the social media platform.

(
c
) Internal
escalation systems that alert when a user who is under sixteen years of age
accesses the social media platform.

3. Develop, implement and maintain
reasonable safeguards for identifying, mitigating and responding to foreseeable
risks of harm that are associated with designing, operating and using the
social media platform.

4. Publish and maintain a written
safety and risk mitigation policy that includes all of the following:

(
a
) the
categories of risks to users that the social media platform has identified.

(
b
) the
specific procedural, technical and organizational safeguards that the social
media platform has implemented to mitigate each category of risk.

(
c
) how the
social media platform evaluates and updates the effectiveness of the
safeguards.

5. Conduct an annual risk assessment
that:

(
a
) Identifies
and evaluates foreseeable risks of harm to users.

(
b
) Documents
and Assesses the effectiveness of the safeguard included in the risk mitigation
policy.

(
c
) Identifies
new or emerging risks.

6. Maintain and preserve records of
compliance for at least three years that include both of the following:

(
a
) Written
policies.

(
b
) Risk
assessments.

C. The attorney general may
investigate and take appropriate action as prescribed in chapter 10, article 7
of this title.

D. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Online social
interaction":

(
a
) Means an
interaction that enables a user to share material for social purposes.

(
b
) Does not
include online business transactions.

2. "Social media platform"
means an online service that does all of the following:

(
a
) provides
online social interaction between two or more end users.

(
b
) allows end
users to link to or interact with other end users.

(
c
) allows End
users to share material for social purposes on the� social media platform.

(
d
) Does not
include:

(
i
) Online
business transactions.

(
ii
) Advertising.

END_STATUTE