Mississippi SB 2346 (Age Verification)

Mississippi, United StatesMS SB 2346Updated July 1, 2023

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  1. Introduced
  2. Passed Senate
  3. Passed House
  4. Became Law

In force

Mississippi's 2023 adult-content age check, the porn-site law that came a year before the state's social media mandate.

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Took effect

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Key facts

Where
Mississippi, United States
Bill number
MS SB 2346
Status
Law
Threat
High
Last update
July 1, 2023

Topics

Age VerificationDigital ID

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What it does

Mississippi SB 2346 makes any commercial site where more than a third of the material is harmful to minors verify that visitors are 18 or older, using a government ID or a commercial age-check service. Enforcement runs through private lawsuits, with damages and attorney fees for a parent whose child got through.

What’s at stake

This is the first half of Mississippi's two-step, the porn-site age check in 2023 before HB 1126 pushed the same demand onto social media in 2024. The through-line is a state that decided proving your identity should be the cost of getting online.

Our take

SB 2346 gets confused with the state's social media law all the time, but it came first and it is the less noticed of the two. Together they show how a state moves the ID checkpoint outward, from adult sites one year to the open internet the next.

Timeline

  1. Took effectLatest

  2. Signed into law

The record

Sponsors

Sen. Joey Fillingane, Sen. Angela Hill

Votes

  • Senate: Passed (52 to 0), February 8, 2023
  • House: Conference report (112 to 3), March 28, 2023
  • Senate: Conference report (39 to 10), March 28, 2023