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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
SENATE BILL 1972 By: Grellner
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to Internet protections for minors;
creating the Oklahoma Children’s Internet Protection
Act; providing short title; defining terms;
prohibiting interactive computer service providers
from entering into certain contractual agreements
with minors; providing exceptions to certain
prohibitions; establishing certain methods for
interactive computer service providers to obtain the
consent of a minor’s parent or legal guardian;
establishing certain penalties; allowing the Attorney
General to recover certain reasonable and necessary
fees; providing for codification; and providing an
effective date.
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 301 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Oklahoma
Children’s Internet Protection Act”.
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 302 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
As used in this act:
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1. “Adult” means any person who is eighteen (18) years of age
or older;
2. “Broadband provider” has the same meaning as defined in 47
U.S.C., Section 1752(a)(2);
3. “Cloud service provider” has the same meaning as defined in
44 U.S.C., Section 3607(b)(5);
4. “Harmful to minors” has the same meaning as defined in
Section 1040.75 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
5. “Image” means a picture of a person;
6. “Interactive computer service” has the same meaning as
defined in 47 U.S.C., Section 230(f)(2);
7. “Likeness” mean means a physical, digital, or other
depiction or representation of a person;
8. “Minor” has the same meaning as defined in Section 1040.75
of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
9. “Name” means the first or last name, or the preferred name
of a person when used in a context that reasonably identifies the
person with particularity;
10. “Persona” refers to a person’s:
a. name,
b. likeness,
c. personal identifying information, or
d. precise geolocation data; and
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11. “Personal identifying information” means any information,
including sensitive information, that is linked or reasonably
linkable to an identified or identifiable individual. The term
includes pseudonymous information when the information is used by a
controller or processor in conjunction with additional information
that reasonably links the information to an identified or
identifiable individual. The term does not include de-identified
information.
SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 303 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Interactive computer service providers shall not, without
the prior express consent of the minor’s parent or legal guardian,
enter into any contractual agreement with a user who is a minor.
This prohibition includes, without limitation, any agreement with,
acknowledgment of, or consent to the interactive computer service’s
terms of service, terms of use, terms and conditions, or similar
agreement, however described. Any agreement entered into with a
minor, without the prior express consent of the minor’s parent or
legal guardian, is, from its inception and thereafter, null, void,
and of no effect. Any agreement entered into with a minor with the
consent of the minor’s parent or legal guardian may not conflict
with the terms of this act. Any term or condition of such an
agreement entered into with a minor with the prior express consent
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of the minor’s parent or legal guardian shall, to the extent it
conflicts with any provision or purpose of this act, be considered
void as against the public policy of this state and stricken from
the agreement.
B. Except as provided in subsections D and E of this section,
an interactive computer service provider that knowingly and
intentionally commits any of the following acts shall be liable for
the civil penalties and other remedies provided in Section 4 of this
act:
1. Purports to enter into a contract or agreement prohibited by
subsection A of this section without the prior express consent of
the minor user’s parent or legal guardian;
2. Allows a minor to access material harmful to minors using
the interactive computer service;
3. Makes any part of the persona of a minor accessible to other
persons using the interactive computer service; or
4. Allows an adult to use the interactive computer service to
communicate with a minor.
C. Any interactive computer service or third party that adheres
to the age verification requirements pursuant to subsection D of
this section shall not retain any identifying information of the
user after access has been granted to the interactive computer
service.
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D. Subsections A and B of this section shall not apply to any
interactive computer service that performs reasonable age-
verification methods to verify the age of a user who obtains, in a
separate signed writing for each instance of conduct prohibited by
subsection A of this section, the consent of the minor’s parent or
legal guardian to the conduct in question.
E. 1. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any
bona fide news or public interest broadcast or report, and shall not
be construed to affect the rights of any news-gathering
organization.
2. No broadband provider, affiliate or subsidiary of a
broadband provider, search engine, or cloud service provider shall
be held to have violated the provisions of this section if enforcing
this section against the provider would be inconsistent with 47
U.S.C., Section 230.
F. An interactive computer service provider may only obtain the
express consent of a minor’s parent or legal guardian in compliance
with this section by one or more of the following methods:
1. Providing a form for the minor’s parent or legal guardian to
sign and return to the interactive computer service provider by
common carrier, facsimile, or electronic scan;
2. Providing a toll-free telephone number for the minor’s
parent or legal guardian to call to provide documented consent;
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3. Coordinating a call with the minor’s parent or legal
guardian over videoconferencing technology;
4. Collecting information related to the government-issued
identification of the minor’s parent or legal guardian and deleting
that information after confirming the identity of the minor’s parent
or legal guardian;
5. Allowing the minor’s parent or legal guardian to provide
consent by responding to an email and taking additional steps to
verify the identity of the minor’s parent or legal guardian; or
6. Any other commercially reasonable method of obtaining
consent in light of available technology.
SECTION 4. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 304 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. An interactive computer service provider that, having been
given no less than thirty (30) days’ notice by the Attorney General
that it is in violation of Section 3 of this act, continues to
knowingly violate Section 3 of this act, may be subject to action
brought by the Attorney General in the district court of Oklahoma
County or the district court in any county in which the minor user
accessed the interactive computer service in the course of conduct
that constitutes the violation of this act. The Attorney General
may seek to enjoin the violation, recover a civil penalty, or obtain
other relief the court considers appropriate.
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B. A civil penalty imposed for a violation of Section 3 of this
act may be in an amount up to:
1. Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) per day that the
interactive computer service provider operates an interactive
computer service in violation of the age verification or parental
consent requirements of Section 3 of this act;
2. Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) per instance when the
interactive computer service provider retains identifying
information in violation of subsection C of Section 3 of this act;
and
3. If, because of the interactive computer service provider’s
violation of the age verification or parental consent requirements
of Section 3 of this act:
a. one or more minors access material harmful to minors,
b. another person uses the interactive computer service
to access any part of the persona of a user who is a
minor, or
c. an adult uses the interactive computer service to
communicate with a user who is a minor,
an additional amount not to exceed Two Hundred Fifty Thousand
Dollars ($250,000.00) per instance.
C. The amount of a civil penalty under this section shall be
based on:
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1. The seriousness of the violation, including the nature,
circumstances, extent, and gravity of the violation;
2. The history of previous violations;
3. The amount necessary to deter a future violation;
4. The economic effect of a civil penalty on the entity on whom
the civil penalty will be imposed;
5. The entity’s knowledge that the act constituted a violation
of Section 3 of this act; and
6. Any other matter that justice may require.
D. The Attorney General may recover reasonable attorney fees,
court costs, and expenses of litigation incurred in an action under
this section, including expert witness fees and court reporter fees.
SECTION 5. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
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