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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[S. 1748 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1748
To protect the safety of children on the internet.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 14, 2025
Mrs. Blackburn (for herself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Thune, and Mr.
Schumer) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To protect the safety of children on the internet.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ''Kids Online Safety
Act''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I--KIDS ONLINE SAFETY
Sec. 101. Definitions.
Sec. 102. Duty of care.
Sec. 103. Safeguards for minors.
Sec. 104. Disclosure.
Sec. 105. Transparency.
Sec. 106. Market research.
Sec. 107. Age verification study and report.
Sec. 108. Guidance.
Sec. 109. Enforcement.
Sec. 110. Kids online safety council.
Sec. 111. Effective date.
Sec. 112. Rules of construction and other matters.
TITLE II--FILTER BUBBLE TRANSPARENCY
Sec. 201. Definitions.
Sec. 202. Requirement to allow users to see unmanipulated content on
internet platforms.
TITLE III--RELATIONSHIP TO STATE LAWS; SEVERABILITY
Sec. 301. Relationship to State laws.
Sec. 302. Severability.
TITLE I--KIDS ONLINE SAFETY
SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS.
In this title:
(1) Child.--The term ''child'' means an individual who is
under the age of 13.
(2) Compulsive usage.--The term ''compulsive usage'' means
a persistent and repetitive use of a covered platform that
significantly impacts one or more major life activities of an
individual, including socializing, sleeping, eating, learning,
reading, concentrating, communicating, or working.
(3) Covered platform.--
(A) In general.--The term ''covered platform''
means an online platform, online video game, messaging
application, or video streaming service that connects
to the internet and that is used, or is reasonably
likely to be used, by a minor.
(B) Exceptions.--The term ''covered platform'' does
not include--
(i) an entity acting in its capacity as a
provider of--
(I) a common carrier service
subject to the Communications Act of
1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) and all
Acts amendatory thereof and
supplementary thereto;
(II) a broadband internet access
service (as such term is defined for
purposes of section 8.1(b) of title 47,
Code of Federal Regulations, or any
successor regulation);
(III) an email service;
(IV) a teleconferencing or video
conferencing service that allows
reception and transmission of audio or
video signals for real-time
communication, provided that--
(aa) the service is not an
online platform; and
(bb) the real-time
communication is initiated by
using a unique link or
identifier to facilitate
access; or
(V) a wireless messaging service,
including such a service provided
through short messaging service or
multimedia messaging service protocols,