Signed by Governor Spencer Cox

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits a social media company from using a design or feature that causes a minor to have an addiction to the company's social media platform and initiates other forms of social media regulations for kids and teens.

Highlights:

• Defines “addiction” for the purposes of this bill as use of a social media platform that (Part I, Sec. 3):

• Indicates substantial preoccupation or obsession with, or the user’s substantial difficulty to cease or reduce use of the social media platform; and

• Causes physical, mental, emotional developmental, or material harm.

• Prohibits a social media company from using a design or feature that causes a minor to have an addiction to the company's social media platform and initiates other forms of social media regulations for kids and teens (Part II, Sec. 4).

• Specifies that social media companies shall receive a civil penalty of $250,000 for each practice, design, or feature shown to have caused addiction (Part II, Sec. 4).

• Establishes that this bill takes effect May 3, 2023 (Part V, Sec. 8).

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