Colorado SB25-201 (Age Checks for Online Sexual Materials)
Colorado, United StatesMedium threatColorado'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.
Latest update
Laid over to May 8, 2025, after the session's end; the bill died
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Starting July 1, 2026, platforms that knowingly and intentionally publish material harmful to children would have had to verify the age of everyone trying to access that material and everyone uploading it. Sites had to offer at least one age check that did not require users to disclose their identity, and had to pass annual independent audits. The Senate Health and Human Services Committee advanced the bill 8-1 on March 27, 2025. The full Senate laid it over repeatedly, and on April 14 pushed it to May 8, after the session had ended.
What’s at stake
Adults would have had to pass an age check to read legal material, with their browsing tied to whatever method the site chose. The required anonymous option admits the privacy problem while leaving ID-based methods on the table.
Our take
The sponsors tried to answer the privacy objection with an anonymous check and outside audits, and the bill still stalled. Senate leaders killed it by delay, so no senator had to cast a floor vote on it.
Timeline
Laid over to May 8, 2025, after the session's end; the bill diedLatest
Second reading laid over
Senate Health and Human Services Committee sent it, amended, to the Committee of the Whole, 8-1
Introduced
Sponsors
Sen. Paul Lundeen, Sen. Lindsey Daugherty, Rep. Meghan Lukens, Rep. Mandy Lindsay, Sen. Dafna Michaelson Jenet
Votes
- Senate Health and Human Services Committee — Referred, amended, to Committee of the Whole (8 to 1) · March 27, 2025
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