Kids Online Safety Act
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-04-10 — Online Consumer Protection Act: cross-connection with online-consumer-protection-act: Both create federal duties of care/compliance programs for social media platforms enforceable by the FTC and state AGs, differing in scope (general consumer protection vs. minor safety). (novelty: 3)
- 2026-07-13 — KIDS Act: Companion/adjacent proposal: the KIDS Act would extend a KOSA-style minor-safety regime beyond social media to video games and AI chatbots, adding sexual-content age gating, default limits on compulsive and messaging features, parental privacy/purchase controls, and AI-identity plus suicide-hotline disclosures, enforced by FTC and state AGs. (novelty: 3)
- 2023-12-13 — Kids Online Safety Act: Bill text summary: KOSA would impose a duty of care on covered platforms to mitigate harms to minors, require default safeguards and parental tools, restrict targeted advertising to minors, mandate disclosure of algorithmic recommendation and ad systems, require non-personalized algorithm options on large platforms, and provide for FTC and state AG enforcement. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-12-11 — Kids Online Safety Act: HR6484 (119th Congress) forwarded by subcommittee to full committee as an amended substitute on a 13–10 vote. (novelty: 2)