H.B. No. 5474
Session Year 2025

AN ACT CONCERNING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND MINORS.

To (1) require the owner of a social media platform to incorporate an online safety center into, and establish a cyberbullying policy for, the owner's social media platform, (2) redefine "heightened risk of harm to minors" to include processing minors' personal data in a manner that presents any reasonably foreseeable risk of harm to minors' physical or mental health, and (3) require the controller of an online service, product or feature that is offered to minors to (A) include a default setting in such service, product or feature to prevent adults from sending unsolicited communications to minors, (B) not use any system design feature to significantly increase, sustain or extend minors' use of such service, product or feature, and (C) disclose to the Attorney General a plan established and implemented to mitigate or eliminate any heightened risk of harm to minors.

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