Nebraska Age-Appropriate Online Design Code (LB 504)
Nebraska, United StatesMedium threat- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- Became Law
Stage 4 of 4: Became Law
Nebraska's kids code took effect in January, and the attorney general's power to sue over it switched on July 1.
Latest update
LB 838 amendments to the design code became operative
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Covered online services must give users they know to be minors high-privacy defaults, avoid manipulative design with them, and stop collecting or selling their data beyond what the service needs; the act says a service is not required to collect personal data to comply. Governor Pillen requested the bill, Senator Bosn introduced it in January 2025, and it passed with broad bipartisan support before being signed May 30, 2025. It became operative January 1, 2026, and since July 1, 2026 the attorney general can bring actions, with civil penalties up to $50,000 per violation. LB 838, signed April 14, 2026 and operative July 17, 2026, rewrote the coverage test to reach businesses that earn most of their revenue online and have over $25 million in revenue or handle data on 50,000 or more consumers. It lengthened the list of regulated design features, added a 15-day account deletion duty, turned parental tools on by default for known children under 13, and made any age a service assigns a user for advertising count as actual knowledge.
What’s at stake
A governor-requested kids code passed Nebraska's deep-red unicameral legislature almost unanimously, which shows design codes draw support from both parties. The model is national now, and Nebraska's is already enforceable.
Our take
Bipartisan, governor-requested, $50,000 a violation, and live right now. The duties reach only users a service knows are minors, yet LB 838 now counts any age a company assigns for advertising as knowledge, which gives a cautious platform reason to check ages even though the law does not require it.
Timeline
LB 838 amendments to the design code became operativeLatest
AG enforcement authority began
Governor Pillen signed LB 838
LB 838, an omnibus banking and commerce bill carrying design code amendments, passed 46-3
Became operative
Signed by Governor Pillen
Votes
- Legislature — Final reading (42 to 7) · May 28, 2025
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