Digital ID
New York S8102 (Device Age Checks)
Would push age verification down to the device, operating system, and app store, so a phone checks your age before its software works normally.
Massachusetts Social Media Bill (S2581)
Would bar under-14s from social media in Massachusetts and check the age of everyone to enforce it. The House and Senate passed rival versions and now have to reconcile them.
Texas App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420)
Makes Apple and Google age-check every Texan who opens an app store account. In force after the Supreme Court declined to block it.
UK NHS Modernisation Bill
Compels every NHS provider into a single lifetime health record per person, surfaced through the NHS App, the same app ecosystem the digital ID scheme wants to inhabit.
Louisiana App Store Accountability Act (HB 570)
Louisiana's app store age-check law passed without a single no vote. Its start date has slipped to July 2027.
UK Representation of the People Bill
The elections bill drawing proposals for election speech controls: broadcast-style restrictions on social media, polling-day reporting bans, and platforms told to prioritize approved media.
Utah App Store Accountability Act
The first state law making app stores verify the age of everyone, and the template the federal bill and other states copied.
Georgia SB 351 (Social Media)
Bars under-16s from social media without a parent's consent and requires age verification, blocked by a federal court the month before it was to start.
Virginia SB 854 (Social Media)
Makes social media platforms screen every Virginia user's age and holds under-16s to one hour a day, now blocked by a federal court.
Alabama App Store Accountability Act (HB 161)
Alabama's app store law goes further than the others: every existing account must be age-verified, not just new ones.
Tennessee HB 1891 (Social Media)
Makes social media platforms verify the age of every account holder in Tennessee and get a parent's consent before anyone under 18 can sign up.
Mississippi HB 1126 (Social Media)
Requires age verification and parental consent to use social media, now in force after the Supreme Court declined to block it.
UK Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
The law that built Britain's digital ID rails while everyone watched the data-reform headline: a state-run trust framework and register for identity providers, live since December.
Missouri AG Rule 15 CSR 60-18
Missouri's adult-content age check written not as a statute but as an Attorney General rule, and drawn wide enough to name social media.
California Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043)
Puts the age check inside the operating system: every device set up in California reports an age bracket to every app.
Ohio HB 96 (Adult Content)
Ohio's adult-site age check, tucked into the state budget bill after a standalone version stalled.
Arizona HB 2112 (Adult Content)
Arizona's 2025 adult-site age check, with damages that climb to $250,000 if a minor gets through.
North Dakota HB 1561 (Adult Content)
North Dakota's 2025 adult-site age check, passed without a single no vote in either chamber.
Wyoming HB 43 (Adult Content)
Wyoming's 2025 adult-site age check, with a flat $5,000 in statutory damages for each failed verification.
South Dakota HB 1053 (Adult Content)
South Dakota's 2025 adult-site age check, enforced with criminal charges that escalate to a felony for repeat offenders.
Indiana SB 17 (Adult Content)
Indiana's adult-site age check, blocked as unconstitutional in 2024 before the Supreme Court's Texas ruling knocked the ground out from under that block.
App Store Accountability Act
Would make Apple and Google verify the age of everyone using their app stores, including adults, and confirm a parent's identity.
Tennessee SB 1792 (Adult Content)
Tennessee's adult-site age check, the rare one that makes a failed verification a felony.
Australia Digital ID Act 2024
Australia's national digital ID framework, in force and expanding: government services first, private-sector accreditation opening November 30, 2026.
Oklahoma SB 1959 (Adult Content)
Oklahoma's adult-site age check, another 2024 private-lawsuit law that the Supreme Court's 2025 Texas ruling left standing.
Alabama HB 164 (Adult Content)
Alabama's adult-site age check, backed by both a $10,000 state penalty and private lawsuits, with a ban on keeping the ID.
Nebraska LB 1092 (Adult Content)
Nebraska's adult-site age check, passed by the state's one-house legislature and enforced through private lawsuits.
Kentucky HB 278 (Adult Content)
Kentucky's adult-site age check, with a $10,000 penalty for each failed verification and $1,000 a day for keeping a user's ID.
Idaho HB 498 (Adult Content)
Idaho's 2024 adult-site age check, with statutory damages baked in so a plaintiff need not prove a dollar of harm.
Kansas SB 394 (Adult Content)
Kansas's adult-site age check, notable for a lower 25 percent content trigger and both state fines and private lawsuits.
South Carolina H 3424 (Child Online Safety Act)
South Carolina's adult-site age check, the Child Online Safety Act, which took effect the moment the governor signed it.
EU Digital Identity Regulation
Requires every EU member state to offer a digital identity wallet, with rollout due by the end of 2026.
Montana SB 544 (Adult Content)
Montana's adult-site age check, carried by a Democrat and later stripped of its state enforcement, leaving only private lawsuits.
North Carolina HB 8 (PAVE Act)
North Carolina's adult-site age check, the PAVE Act, slipped into a larger bill and enforced through two kinds of private lawsuit.
Arkansas SB 66 (Adult Content)
Arkansas's 2023 adult-content age check, Act 612, enforced entirely by private lawsuits.
Mississippi SB 2346 (Adult Content)
Mississippi's 2023 adult-content age check, the porn-site law that came a year before the state's social media mandate.
Virginia SB 1515 (Adult Content)
Virginia's 2023 adult-site age check, built as pure civil liability with no regulator and no criminal charge.
Utah SB 287 (Adult Content)
One of the first state laws to make adult sites verify a visitor is 18, enforced by private lawsuits rather than a state agency.