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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR
S.B. 1747
social
media; online content; minors.
Purpose
Prescribes
duties for social media platforms regarding account holders who are minors and
online age verification requirements for commercial entities that knowingly and
intentionally publish or distribute of material that is harmful to minors on a
website or application.
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
Social Media
Platform Duties
1.
Prohibits a social media platform from entering into an account holder
contract with a minor who is less than 14 years of age unless the minor's
parent or guardian provides consent for the minor to become an account holder.�
2.
States that, for the purposes of the account holder contract
requirements, if a social media platform allows an account holder to use the
social media platform, the social media platform and the account holder have
entered into an account holder contract.
3.
Requires
a social media platform to:
a)
terminate any account held by an account holder who is less than 14
years of age, including accounts that the social media platform treats or
categorizes as belonging to an account holder who is probably less than 14
years of age for the purpose of targeting content or advertising, providing 90
days for an account holder to dispute the termination before its effective;
b)
allow an account holder who is less than 14 years of age to request to
terminate the account which must be effective within five business days after
the request;
c)
allow the confirmed parent or guardian of an account holder who is less
than 14 years of age to request that the account be terminated which must be
effective within 10 business days after the request;
d)
terminate an account held by an account holder who is 14 or 15 years of
age, including an account that the social media platform treats or categorizes
as belonging to an account holder who is probably 14 or 15 years of age for the
purpose of targeting content or advertising, if the account holder's parent or
guardian has not provided consent for the minor to create or maintain the
account, providing an account holder 90 days after the termination to dispute
the termination before its effective;
e)
allow an account holder who is 14 or 15 years of age to request to
terminate the account which must be effective within five business days after
the request;
f)
allow the confirmed parent or guardian of an account holder who is 14 or
15 years of age to request that the minor's account be terminated which must be
effective within 10 business days after the request; and
g)
permanently
delete all personal information held by the social media platform relating to a
terminated account unless there are legal requirements to maintain the
information.
4.
Deems a knowing or reckless violation of the termination requirement of
any account held by a minor who is less than 14 years of age as an unlawful
practice in accordance with the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act.
5.
Requires
a civil action for a claim under social media platform account holder
requirements to be brought within one year after the date that the complainant
knew or reasonably should have known of the violation.
Online Age
Verification
6.
Requires a commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes
or distributes material that is harmful to minors on a website or application,
if the website or application contains a substantial portion of material that
is harmful to minors to do all of the following:
a)
use
either anonymous age verification or standard age verification to verify that
the person attempting to access the material that is harmful to minors is at
least 18 years of age;
b)
prevent
access to the material that is harmful to minors by a person who is less than
18 years of age;
c)
offer
anonymous age verification and standard age verification and allow a person
attempting to access the material harmful to minors to select which method will
be used to verify the person's age; and
d)
ensure
that a third party conducting anonymous age verification:
i.
does not retain personal identifying information used to verify age once
the age of an account holder or a person seeking an account has been verified;
ii.
does not use personal identifying information that is used to verify age
for any other purpose;
iii.
keeps anonymous any personal identifying information used to verify age
and does not share or otherwise communicate the information to any person; and
iv.
protects personal identifying information used to verify age from
unauthorized or illegal access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure
through reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature
of the personal information.
Miscellaneous
7.
Defines
account holder
as a resident who opens an account or
creates a profile or who is identified by a social media platform by a unique
identifier while using or accessing the social media platform when the social
media platform knows or has reason to believe the resident is located in
Arizona.
8.
Defines
anonymous age verification
as a commercially reasonable
method that is used by a government agency or a business for the purpose of age
verification that is conducted by a nongovernmental, independent third party
that is organized under the laws of a state of the United States that both:
a)
has
its principal place of business in a state of the United States; and
b)
is
not owned or controlled by a company formed in a foreign country, a government
of a foreign country or any other entity formed in a foreign country.
9.
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.
10.
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.
11.
Defines
distribute
as issuing, selling, giving, providing, delivering, transferring,
transmitting, circulating or disseminating by any means.
12.
Defines
harmful to minors
as that quality of any description or representation,
in whatever form, of nudity, sexual activity, sexual conduct, sexual
excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse, when both:
a)
to
the average adult applying contemporary state standards with respect to what is
suitable for minors, it both:
i.
appeals to the prurient interest, when taken as a whole; and
ii.
portrays the description or representation in a patently offensive way;
and
b)
taken
as a whole does not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific
value for minors.
13.
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.
14.
Defines
publish
as communicating or making information available to another
person on a publicly available website or application.
15.
Defines
resident
as a person who lives in Arizona for more than six months of
the year.
16.
Defines
social media platform
as an online forum, website or application that
satisfies each of the following criteria:
a)
allows
a user to upload content or view the content or activity of other users;
b)
10
percent or more of the daily active users who are less than 16 years of age
spent on average at least two hours per day on the online forum, website or
application on the days when using 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 twelve months, during the previous one-month
period;
c)
employs
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
live-streaming or has a function that allows a user or advertiser to broadcast
live video content in real-time.
17.
Excludes,
from the definition of
social media platform
, an online service, website
or application where the exclusive function is email or direct messaging
consisting of text, 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.
18.
Defines
standard age verification
as any commercially reasonable method of age
verification that is approved by the commercial entity.
19.
Defines
substantial portion
as more than 33.3 percent of total material on a
website or application.
20.
Becomes
effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 16, 2026
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SB1747 - 572R - S Ver
Senate Engrossed
social media; online
content; minors.
State of Arizona
Senate
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
SENATE BILL 1747
AN
ACT
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 44, Arizona Revised Statutes,
is amended by adding chapter 42, to read:
CHAPTER
42
technology
content protection for minors
ARTICLE
1. social media
START_STATUTE
44-8041.
Definitions
In this article, UNLESS the context otherwise
requires:
1. "Account holder" means a
resident who opens an account or creates a profile or who is identified by a
social media platform by a unique identifier while using or accessing the
social media platform when the social media platform knows or has reason to
believe the resident is located in this state.
2. "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.
3. "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.
4. "Resident" means a
person who lives in this state for more than six months of the year.
5. "Social media platform":
(
a
) means an
online forum, website or application that satisfies each of the following
criteria:
(
i
) Allows a
user to upload content or view the content or activity of other users.
(
ii
) Ten
percent or more of the daily active users who are less than sixteen years of
age spent on average at least two hours per day on the online forum, website or
application on the days when using 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
) Employs
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 live-streaming or has 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 where the exclusive FUNCTION
is email or direct messaging consisting of text, 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.
Account holder contracts; duties; unfair practice; statute of
limitations
A. A social media platform may not
enter into an account holder contract with a minor who is less than fourteen
years of age unless the minor's parent or guardian provides consent for the
minor to become an account holder.� For the purposes of this subsection, if a
social media platform allows an account holder to use the social media
platform, the social media platform and the account holder have entered into an
account holder contract.
B. A social media platform shall:
1. Terminate any account held by an
account holder who is less than fourteen years of age, including accounts that
the social media platform treats or categorizes as belonging to an account
holder who is probably less than fourteen years of age for the purpose of
targeting content or advertising, and provide ninety days for an account holder
to dispute the termination.� Termination is effective on the expiration of the
ninety days if the account holder fails to effectively dispute the termination.
2. Allow an account holder who is
less than fourteen years of age to request to terminate the account.�
Termination is effective within five business days after the request.
3. Allow the confirmed parent or
guardian of an account holder who is less than fourteen years of age to request
that the account be terminated.� Termination is effective within ten business
days after the request.
4. Permanently delete all personal
information held by the social media platform relating to the terminated
account, unless there are legal requirements to maintain the information.
5. Terminate an account held by an
account holder who is fourteen or fifteen years of age, including an account
that the social media platform treats or categorizes as belonging to an account
holder who is probably fourteen or fifteen years of age for the purpose of
targeting content or advertising, if the account holder's parent or guardian
has not provided consent for the minor to create or maintain the account.� An
account holder has ninety days after the termination to dispute the termination.�
The termination is effective on the expiration of the ninety days if the
account holder fails to effectively dispute the termination.
6. Allow an account holder who is
fourteen or fifteen years of age to request to terminate the account.�
Termination is effective within five business days after the request.
7. Allow the confirmed parent or
guardian of an account holder who is fourteen or fifteen years of age to
request that the minor's account be terminated.� Termination must be effective
within ten business days after the request.
8. Permanently delete all personal
information held by the social media platform relating to a terminated account,
unless there are legal requirements to maintain the information.
C. A knowing or reckless violation of
subsection B, paragraph 2, 3 or 4 of this section is an unlawful practice
pursuant to section 44-1522.
D. Notwithstanding any other law, a
civil action for a claim under this section must be brought within one year
after the date that the complainant knew or reasonably should have known of the
violation.�
END_STATUTE
ARTICLE
2. online age verification
START_STATUTE
44-8051.
Definitions
In this article, UNLESS the context otherwise
requires:
1. "Anonymous age
verification" means a commercially reasonable method that is used by a
government agency or a business for the purpose of age verification that is
conducted by a nongovernmental, independent third party that is organized under
the laws of a state of the United States that both:
(
a
) Has its
principal place of business in a state of the United States.
(
b
) Is not
owned or controlled by a company formed in a foreign country, a government of a
foreign country or any other entity formed in a foreign country.
2. "Commercial entity"
includes a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, a limited
partnership, a sole proprietorship and any other legally recognized entity.
3. "Distribute" means to
issue, sell, give, provide, deliver, transfer, transmit, circulate or
disseminate by any means.
4. "Harmful to minors" has
the same meaning prescribed in section 13-3501.
5. "Publish" means to
communicate or make information available to another person on a publicly
available website or application.
6. "Standard age
verification" means any commercially reasonable method of age verification
that is approved by the commercial entity.
7. "Substantial portion"
means more than 33.3 percent of total material on a website or application.
END_STATUTE
START_STATUTE
44-8052.
Material that is harmful to minors; age verification; personal
identifying information protection
A commercial
entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material that
is harmful to minors on a website or application, if the website or application
contains a substantial portion of material that is harmful to minors shall do
all of the following:
1. Use either anonymous age
verification or standard age verification to verify that the person attempting
to access the material that is harmful to minors is at least eighteen years of
age.
2. Prevent access to the material
that is harmful to minors by a person who is less than eighteen years of age.
3. Offer anonymous age verification
and standard age verification and allow a person attempting to access the
material harmful to minors to select which method will be used to verify the
person's age.
4. Ensure that a third party
conducting anonymous age verification pursuant to this article:
(
a
) Does not
retain personal identifying information used to verify age once the age of an
account holder as defined in section 44-8041 or a person seeking an account has
been verified.
(
b
) Does not
use personal identifying information that is used to verify age for any other
purpose.
(
c
) Keeps
anonymous any personal identifying information used to verify age and does not
share or otherwise communicate the information to any person.
(
d
) Protects
personal identifying information used to verify age from unauthorized or
illegal access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure through reasonable
security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the personal information.
END_STATUTE