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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
SENATE BILL 1871 By: Jech
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to social media; defining terms;
requiring certain age verification; requiring
segregation of certain data; requiring social media
platforms to take certain actions for minor users;
providing certain criteria; requiring social media
platforms to offer certain supervisory tools;
prohibiting certain action; requiring certain
parental consent; stating certain presumption;
stating certain exceptions; authorizing certain
appeal; establishing time frame for certain
determination; construing provision; authorizing
enforcement authority and rule promulgation;
providing penalties; providing for codification; and
declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 401 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
As used in this section:
1. “Account” means a digital profile on a social media platform
that is created by a user;
2. “Connected account” means an account on a social media
platform that is directly connected to:
a. a minor user’s account, or
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b. an account that is directly connected to an account
directly connected to a minor user’s account;
3. “Content” means any information, visual depictions, tools,
features, links, software, or other materials that appear on or are
available or enabled through a social media platform;
4. “Directly connected” means an account on the social media
platform that is connected to another account by:
a. sending a request to connect to another account holder
and having the request to connect accepted by the
other account holder, or
b. receiving a request to connect from another account
holder and accepting the request to connect;
5. “Minor” means an individual under eighteen (18) years of
age;
6. “Personal information” means information that is linked or
can be reasonably linked to an individual, including, but not
limited to:
a. first and last name,
b. date of birth,
c. home or physical address, including street name and
city,
d. screen name or username that reveals an individual’s
electronic mail address, first name, or last name,
e. telephone number,
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f. Social Security number,
g. photograph, video, or audio file containing a person’s
image or voice,
h. geolocation information sufficient to identify street
name and city, and
i. any other identifier that a person may use to contact
a specific individual;
7. “Push notification” means an automatic electronic message
displayed on an account holder’s device, when the user interface for
the social media service is not actively open or visible on the
device, that prompts the account holder to check or engage with the
social media platform;
8. “Reasonable age verification measure” means a method of age
verification that is authenticated through the upload of a valid
state-issued form of identification to relate to a user of a social
media platform;
9. “Reasonable age verification process” means an age
verification process employed by a social media company that:
a. uses one or more reasonable age verification measures
in order to verify the age of a user of the social
media platform owned, operated, or otherwise made
available by the social media company,
b. provides that requiring a user to confirm that the
user is not a minor, or to insert the user’s birth
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date, is not sufficient to constitute a reasonable age
verification measure,
c. ensures that each user is subjected to each reasonable
age verification measure used by the social media
company as part of the age verification process, and
d. does not base verification of a user’s age on factors
such as whether the user shares an Internet protocol
(IP) address, hardware identifier, or other technical
indicator with another user determined to not be a
minor;
10. “Social media company” means an entity that owns or
operates a social media platform;
11. “Social media platform” means a website or Internet medium
that:
a. permits a person to become a registered user,
establish an account, or create a profile for the
purpose of allowing users to create, share, and view
user-generated content through such an account or
profile,
b. enables one or more users to generate content that can
be viewed by other users of the medium, and
c. primarily serves as a medium for users to interact
with content generated by other users of the medium;
and
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12. “User” means an individual who accesses or uses a social
media platform.
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 402 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. A social media company shall require each individual
accessing its social media platforms to create a user account in
order to interact with its services.
B. With respect to each user account of a social media platform
that exists as of the effective date of this act, a social media
company shall:
1. On such date, freeze all accounts;
2. In order to restore the functionality of an account, require
that the user provide age data that is verifiable using a reasonable
verification process subject to subsection D of this section; and
3. Using age data, classify each user as a minor or an adult.
C. At the time an individual creates a new user account to
access its services, a social media platform shall:
1. Request age data from the individual;
2. Verify the individual’s age using a reasonable age
verification process, subject to subsection D of this section; and
3. Using age data, classify each user as a minor or an adult.
D. A social media platform may contract with a third party to
employ reasonable age verification measures as part of the social
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media platform’s reasonable age verification process, but the use of
a third party shall not relieve the social media platform of its
obligations under this act or from liability under this act.
E. 1. A social media platform shall segregate any personal
information gathered specifically for reasonable age verification
purposes and shall not use the personal information for any other
purpose except those provided in subparagraphs a through f of
paragraph 2 of subsection G of this section.
2. If a user is determined to be a minor, a social media
platform shall:
a. set default privacy settings to prioritize maximum
privacy of such minor user’s account, including
settings that:
(1) restrict the visibility of the minor user’s
account to only connected accounts,
(2) limit the minor user’s ability to share content
to only connected accounts,
(3) restrict any data collection and sale of data
from a minor user’s account that is not otherwise
required for core functioning of the social media
platform,
(4) disable search engine indexing of the minor
user’s profiles,
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(5) restrict a minor user’s direct messaging
capabilities to only allow for direct messaging
to connected accounts, and
(6) allow a minor user to download a file with all
information associated with his or her account,
b. implement and maintain reasonable security measures,
including data encryption, to protect the
confidentiality, security, and integrity of personal
information collected from a minor user who is a
resident of this state,
c. provide an easily accessible and understandable notice
that:
(1) describes any information the social media
platform collects from a minor user, and
(2) explains how the information may be used or
disclosed, and
d. disable the following features that prolong engagement
on a social media platform by a minor user:
(1) autoplay functions that continuously play content
without user interaction,
(2) scroll or pagination that loads additional
content as long as the user continues scrolling,
and
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(3) push notifications prompting repeated user
engagement.
3. Upon request of a parent or legal guardian of a minor user,
a social media platform shall:
a. delete the personal information of the minor user,
unless the information is required to be retained
pursuant to state or federal law, and
b. remove any information or material the minor user made
publicly available through the social media platform.
F. A social media platform shall limit a minor user’s access to
its services to one (1) hour per day. A social media platform shall
offer the parent or legal guardian of a minor user supervisory tools
that the parent or legal guardian may decide to activate to
supervise the minor user’s usage of the services provided by the
social media platform. Such supervisory tools shall include
capabilities for a parent or legal guardian to:
1. Set time limits for the minor user’s daily social media
service usage across devices;
2. Schedule mandatory breaks for the minor user during selected
days and times across devices;
3. View:
a. data detailing the minor user’s total and average
daily time spent on the social media platform across
devices,
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b. a list of connected accounts,
c. a list of accounts blocked by the minor user, and
d. the minor user’s:
(1) privacy settings,
(2) content sensitivity settings, and
(3) direct messaging settings and permissions; and
4. Receive notifications when the minor user changes an account
setting described in this subsection.
A social media platform shall inform the parent or legal
guardian of a minor user of their access to these supervisory
features and of the parent or legal guardian’s right to utilize such
features.
G. 1. A social media platform shall not allow a minor user who
is a resident of this state to change the default data privacy
setting provided for in subparagraph a of paragraph 2 of subsection
E of this section without first obtaining verifiable written consent
from a minor user’s parent or legal guardian. The social media
platform shall verify the identity of the person consenting and the
relationship of the person consenting for the minor.
2. A social media platform’s terms of service related to a
minor user who is a resident of this state shall be presumed to
include an assurance of confidentiality for the minor user’s
personal information. The presumption of confidentiality may be
overcome if the social media platform obtains verifiable written
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consent from a parent or legal guardian of the minor user. The
presumption of confidentiality does not apply to a social media
platform’s internal use or external sharing of a minor user’s
personal information if the use or sharing is necessary to:
a. maintain or analyze functioning of the social media
service,
b. enable network communications,
c. personalize the user’s experience based on the user’s
age and location,
d. display a username chosen by the minor user,
e. obtain reasonable age verification information as
required by subsection C of this section, or
f. comply with the requirements of this act or any other
federal or state law.
H. A social media platform shall:
1. Implement a review process allowing a user to appeal his or
her age designation by submitting documentary evidence to establish
the user’s age range; and
2. Review evidence submitted by the user and make a
determination within thirty (30) days of submission of the evidence.
I. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a text
messaging platform or a platform for which the primary purpose is
related to education or health care.
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SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 403 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. In the case of a violation of Section 2 of this act, the
Attorney General may bring a civil action in the District Court of
Oklahoma County or a district court in the county in which the
violation occurred to:
1. Enjoin the violation;
2. Enforce compliance with Section 2 of this act; or
3. Obtain civil penalties under subsection C of this section.
B. The Attorney General may promulgate any rules necessary to
enforce the provisions of this act.
C. Any social media company that violates this act shall be
subject to a civil penalty not to exceed Two Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars ($2,500.00) for each violation. Each individual violation
shall be considered a separate violation.
SECTION 4. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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