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SB693 • 2026

Social media; requiring certain warning on social media platforms. Effective date.

Social media; requiring certain warning on social media platforms. Effective date.

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Sponsor
Thompson
Last action
2025-03-11
Official status
Placed on General Order
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Social media; requiring certain warning on social media platforms. Effective date.

Social media; requiring certain warning on social media platforms.

What This Bill Does

  • Social media; requiring certain warning on social media platforms.
  • Effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 693 (Senate): Introduced (1/15/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 693 (Senate): Floor Amendment 1 (3/17/2025) Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 693 (Senate): SB693 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

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Filed

Plain English: Req.

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  • 1856 Page 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 STATE OF OKLAHOMA 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) FLOOR SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL NO.
  • 693 By: Thompson of the Senate and Moore of the House FLOOR SUBSTITUTE An Act relating to social media; amending 15 O.S.

Bill History

  1. 2025-03-11 Senate

    Placed on General Order

  2. 2025-03-06 Senate

    Reported Do Pass Technology and Telecommunications committee; CR filed

  3. 2025-03-03 Senate

    Coauthored by Representative Moore (principal House author)

  4. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Technology and Telecommunications

  5. 2025-02-03 Senate

    First Reading

  6. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Authored by Senator Thompson

Official Summary Text

Social media; requiring certain warning on social media platforms. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 693 (Senate): Introduced (1/15/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 693 (Senate): Floor Amendment 1 (3/17/2025)
Fiscal Impact Statements For SB 693 (Senate): SB693 INT FI.PDF (Fiscal (Senate))

Current Bill Text

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SENATE FLOOR VERSION
March 6, 2025

SENATE BILL NO. 693 By: Thompson of the Senate

and

Moore of the House

An Act relating to social media; defining terms;
requiring certain warning; establishing criteria for
certain warning; providing certain exceptions;
authorizing Attorney General to bring civil action
and seek certain relief; 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 202 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. As used in this section:
1. “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,

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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
2. “User” means a person who accesses or uses a social media
platform.
B. A social media platform shall prominently display a warning
to any user who accesses the platform for the first time and to any
established user once per day. Such warning shall appear for a
duration of sixty (60) seconds, shall render the applications of the
platform unusable for such duration, and shall not be able to be
terminated by the user before the end of such duration. Such
warning shall display the following message: “WARNING. THERE IS
REASONABLE EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST THAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS HAZARDOUS TO
MENTAL HEALTH, ESPECIALLY IN YOUNG CHILDREN, TEENAGERS, AND YOUNG
ADULTS.”
C. 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.
D. The Attorney General is authorized to bring a civil action
against a social media platform for a violation of the provisions of
this section and to seek injunctive relief or other appropriate
relief as determined by the court.

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SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
March 6, 2025 - DO PASS