Digital ID
Every bill we’re tracking on digital id, with clear summaries of its provisions, status, and effects.
Utah SB 73 (VPN Age Verification)
Utah's update to its adult-site age check law counts anyone physically in Utah as a Utah user even behind a VPN, bans sites from explaining VPNs, and adds a 2% tax on adult content sales.
Tennessee SB 1792 (Age Verification)
Tennessee's adult-site age check, the rare one that makes a failed verification a felony.
UK Representation of the People Bill
Would expand voter registration and election rules; Commons proposals for additional social-media election controls were not called before the bill moved to the Lords.
16 & Up Social Media Act
Would exclude under-16s from covered social platforms and pressure services to determine users' ages, threatening anonymous participation and lawful speech.
California Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043)
Turns every California device into an age checkpoint, making the operating system label users by age before apps are allowed to treat them normally.
California Under-16 Social Media Ban (AB 1709)
Uses California's device-level age system to decide who may use ordinary social-media features, forcing an age check onto everyone in the name of restricting under-16s.
California Age-Estimation and Child Design Law (AB 2246)
Orders services likely to attract children to estimate users' ages or treat everyone as a child, turning a law advertised as privacy protection into another mass-classification mandate.
UK Health Bill (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.
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.
Missouri Adult-Site Age Verification (HB 1839 and 15 CSR 60-18)
Missouri first imposed its adult-content ID check by Attorney General rule, then put the same checkpoint into state law through HB 1839.
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.
New Zealand Social Media Minimum Age Bill
New Zealand's under-16 ban would cover any platform with recommender feeds, endless scroll, likes, or disappearing stories, and would let a regulator order app stores and internet providers to cut the country off from a platform entirely.
Illinois HB 5511 (Device Age Signal and Minor Defaults)
Illinois makes device makers, operating systems and app stores ask a user's age at setup and pass that self-declared age to social media platforms as a signal, which then triggers default restrictions for minors.
Digital Age Assurance Act
Would put age checks in every operating system sold in America. You set your age bracket at setup, and apps must use it.
Massachusetts Addictive Feeds Bill (S.3175)
Massachusetts would switch off addictive feeds, autoplay, infinite scroll and overnight notifications for minors by default, and hand the attorney general the job of deciding how platforms work out who is a minor.
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.
Iowa HF 864 (Adult-Site Age Verification)
Iowa requires sites and apps where a third or more of the content is pornographic for minors to verify users' ages, including through digital ID.
North Carolina HB 301 (Social Media & AI Safety)
The Senate version of North Carolina HB 301 bans social media accounts for children under 14 and makes platforms verify users' ages, and the bill now sits in a conference committee.
New Jersey Online Age Verification Bill (A5305)
New Jersey would require websites and other online services carrying covered sexual material to verify every visitor is at least 18.
West Virginia HB 4412 (Adult-Site Age Verification)
West Virginia requires adult sites and apps to verify users are 18 or older, names WV Mobile ID as an approved method, and lets parents sue for $10,000 per incident.
Arizona HB 2991 (Social Media and App Store Age Checks)
Arizona's HB 2991 started as a social media and adult-site age check bill, then the Senate rewrote it into an app store and operating system age mandate before it stalled.
New York S.9051-B (AI Companion Age Checks)
New York's legislature passed a bill that locks the human-like features of AI companion chatbots until the operator has checked that the user is an adult.
Colorado SB26-051 (Device Age Signal)
Colorado makes operating systems ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup and pass that self-declared age to apps as a signal, which apps must request at first launch.
Oklahoma HB 1275 (Social Media Age Verification)
Oklahoma's House passed a bill that would have barred users under 16 from social media and made platforms verify the age of all account holders.
New York Safe by Design Act (Age Checks for Social Features)
New York's Safe by Design Act blocks messaging, profile viewing, tagging and other core social features until a platform checks the user's age, and bans self-declared age.
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.
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.
Missouri HB 1887 (Megan Meier Act)
Missouri's House voted 145-3 to make social media platforms verify the age of all Missouri users before they open an account, and to bar under-16s from holding accounts of their own.
New Hampshire SB 648 (Adult Site Age Verification)
New Hampshire's Senate passed a bill making commercial porn sites verify the age of visitors, and the House killed it in May 2026.
Kansas SB 372 (App Store Accountability Act)
Kansas's SB 372 would have required app stores to verify the age of every Kansas account holder, and it nearly passed inside an unrelated farm theft bill.
Michigan SB 757 (SAFE for Kids Act)
Michigan's SB 757 would bar personalized social media feeds for any user a platform has not age-checked or cleared with parental consent.
Alaska HB 47 (Social Media Age Check Amendment)
A House floor amendment turned Alaska's bill on AI-generated child abuse imagery into a social media age verification law, and a Senate committee cut those sections back out.
Massachusetts Under-14 Social Media Ban (H.5366)
The House version would bar under-14s from social media outright, make platforms delete their accounts, require parental consent for 14 and 15 year olds, and ban phones in schools from bell to bell.
Kentucky HB 227 (Social Media Age Estimation)
Kentucky's HB 227 would have made large social media platforms estimate every user's age from the data they already hold, and treat users as under 16 until proven otherwise.
Wisconsin AB 962 / SB 937 (App Store Age Verification)
Wisconsin's Assembly passed an app store bill that would have required age verification for all accounts and parental consent for a minor's downloads.
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.
Florida SB 1722 (App Store Accountability Act)
Florida's SB 1722 would have required app stores to verify the age of every Florida account holder and get parental consent for minors' downloads.
Georgia SB 351 (Social Media and Adult Sites)
Bars under-16s from social media without a parent's consent and makes adult sites verify every visitor's age. The social media half is blocked; the adult-site half is in force.
Indiana HEA 1408 (Social Media, Under-16 Consent)
Indiana's social media law makes large platforms keep estimating users' ages as they log hours, and shuts down under-16 accounts that lack parental consent.
South Dakota HB 1275 (App Store Age Verification)
South Dakota's House passed an app store bill requiring age verification for all accounts, and a Senate committee killed it by one vote.
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.
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.
Florida HB 3 (Social Media and Adult Sites)
Bars under-14s from social media, requires parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds, and makes adult sites verify every visitor's age.
Alabama SB 186 (Device Filter, Age Asked at Setup)
Alabama requires new phones and tablets to ask the user's age at activation and to switch on an obscenity filter automatically when the stated age is under 18.
Ohio HB 96 (Age Verification)
Ohio's adult-site age check, tucked into the state budget bill after a standalone version stalled.
Arizona HB 2112 (Age Verification)
Arizona's 2025 adult-site age check, with damages that climb to $250,000 if a minor gets through.
North Dakota HB 1561 (Age Verification)
North Dakota's 2025 adult-site age check, passed without a single no vote in either chamber.
Wyoming HB 43 (Age Verification)
Wyoming's 2025 adult-site age check, with a flat $5,000 in statutory damages for each failed verification.
South Dakota HB 1053 (Age Verification)
South Dakota's 2025 adult-site age check, enforced with criminal charges that escalate to a felony for repeat offenders.
Indiana SB 17 (Age Verification)
Indiana's adult-site age check, in force since an appeals court stayed the 2024 injunction against it.
Connecticut HB 6857 (Social Media Feeds and Minors)
Connecticut's HB 6857 would have blocked personalized social media feeds for anyone a platform had not age-checked or cleared with parental consent.
Texas HB 186 (Under-18 Social Media Ban)
The Texas House voted to bar everyone under 18 from social media and to make platforms verify that new account holders are adults.
Alabama SB 187 (App Store Accountability Act, 2025)
Alabama's first app store age verification bill passed the Senate in 2025, stalled in a House committee, and came back in 2026 as HB 161, which became law.
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.
Colorado SB25-201 (Age Checks for Online Sexual Materials)
Colorado's SB25-201 would have required adult sites to verify the age of every visitor and uploader, and it died when the Senate kept putting off a floor vote.
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 (Age Verification)
Oklahoma's adult-site age check, another 2024 private-lawsuit law that the Supreme Court's 2025 Texas ruling left standing.
Alabama HB 164 (Age Verification)
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 (Age Verification)
Nebraska's adult-site age check, passed by the state's one-house legislature and enforced through private lawsuits.
Kentucky HB 278 (Age Verification)
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 (Age Verification)
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 (Age Verification)
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 Wallet (eIDAS 2.0)
Requires EU member states to offer a European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet by the end of 2026; use by individuals is voluntary under the law.
Montana SB 544 (Age Verification)
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 (Age Verification)
Arkansas's 2023 adult-content age check, Act 612, enforced entirely by private lawsuits.
Mississippi SB 2346 (Age Verification)
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 (Age Verification)
Virginia's 2023 adult-site age check, built as pure civil liability with no regulator and no criminal charge.
Utah SB 287 (Age Verification)
One of the first state laws to make adult sites verify a visitor is 18, enforced by private lawsuits rather than a state agency.
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