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HB4082 • 2026

social media platforms; user restrictions

HB4082 - social media platforms; user restrictions

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

Checked against official source text during the last sync.

Social Media Rules for Young Users

This bill requires social media companies to restrict access and interactions for users under sixteen years old.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires social media platforms to restrict access and interactions for users who are younger than sixteen years old.
  • Asks social media companies to take steps to prevent underage users from creating accounts or interacting online.
  • Needs social media companies to create safety measures, like age-appropriate design features and default safety settings.
  • Requires social media companies to publish a written policy about risks and how they protect users.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Social media companies
  • Users under sixteen years old

Terms To Know

Online Social Interaction
An interaction that lets a user share material for social purposes, but does not include business transactions or advertising.
Social Media Platform
An online service where users can interact with each other and share materials for social reasons.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what happens if a company breaks the rules.
  • It is unclear how this will be enforced or what penalties might apply to companies that do not follow these rules.

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.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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