H.R. 7757
KIDS Act
Sponsor: Brett Guthrie
1 cosponsor
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act or the KIDS Act
This bill requires specified online platforms to establish safeguards for minors. The safeguards include (1) limiting access to specified sexual material, (2) providing parental controls on social media and online video game platforms, and (3) requiring artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to disclose certain information to users who are minors.
First, publicly available online platforms on which more than one-third of the content is considered sexual material harmful to minors under the bill must adopt technology to identify minors and prevent them from accessing such material.
Next, social media platforms must (1) implement default settings for minors that limit compulsive usage features and the ability of other users to communicate with minors, and (2) provide tools for parents to manage the privacy and account settings of a minor. Social media platforms may not allow ephemeral messaging features for minors.
The bill also requires online video game platforms to provide tools that allow parents to (1) limit communication between a minor and other users of the platform, and (2) restrict purchases by a minor on the platform.
Further, providers of AI chatbots must disclose to users who are minors (1) that the chatbot is an AI system and not a human, and (2) suicide and crisis intervention hotline information.
Finally, the bill requires specified studies and reports about the effects of social media platforms on minors and provides for enforcement of the bill's requirements by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general.
Text of the bill
I Shielding Minors from Obscenity
II Online Platforms
A Kids Online Safety
B Stop Profiling Youth and Kids
III Social Gaming Platforms
Where this section came from
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Mar 3, 2026 · Introduced in House Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary, Mar 3 Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Mar 3
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Jun 29, 2026 · Engrossed in House On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Passed, 267–117 · Roll Call 228
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(2) Protective level of control. For purposes of paragraph (1)(C), the term most protective level of control means the relevant safeguards—
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(a) Communication safeguards. An online video game provider shall provide safeguards to a parent of a covered user of an interactive online video game of such online video game provider that allow the parent to limit communication between such covered user and any other user of such interactive online video game.
(b) Features
(1) In general. An online video game provider shall ensure that the safeguards required by subsection (a) meet the following requirements:
(A) Be accessible and easy to use.
(B) Be enabled by default on an account of a covered user of the interactive online video game of such online video game provider.
(C) Be set to the most protective level of control by default on any such account.
(2) Protective level of control. For purposes of paragraph (1)(C), the term most protective level of control means the relevant safeguards—
(A) are set to the most restrictive setting by default; and
(B) may be set to a less restrictive setting only by a parent of a covered user.
(3) Other safeguards required. An online video game provider shall provide to a covered user and a parent of a covered user of an interactive online video game of the online video game provider readily accessible and easy-to-use safeguards to do the following:
(A) Prevent a profile of such covered user or personal information connected to such covered user from being recommended or suggested to any other user of such interactive online video game who is not a minor.
(B) Restrict purchases and financial transactions by such covered user.
(C) Limit the amount of time spent by such covered user on such interactive online video game.
(c) Device controls. Nothing in this section may be construed to prohibit an online video game provider from making available to the parent of a covered user of an interactive online video game of the online video game provider a single user interface that permits such parent to do the following:
(1) Set the level or scope of any covered communication tool with respect to multiple other users or categories of users or set the level or scope of multiple covered communication tools.
(2) Control the safeguards required by this section.
(d) Notice to covered users. An online video game provider shall provide clear and conspicuous notice to a covered user of an interactive online video game of the online video game provider when the safeguards required by this section are in effect that describes the settings or safeguards that have been applied.
IV Artificial Intelligence Chatbots
V Research, Education, and Best Practices for Protecting Minors Online
A Research
1 Safe Social Media Act
2 No Fentanyl on Social Media Act
3 Assessing Safety Tools for Parents and Minors Act
4 Study on chatbots and mental health of minors
B Education
1 Promoting a Safe Internet for Minors Act
2 AI Warnings And Resources for Education (AWARE) Act
C Partnerships and Best Practices
VI Kids Privacy Protections
A COPPA 2.0
B Data Broker Disclosures
VII General Provisions