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
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
Where this section came from
Not in the first version (Introduced in House, 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
(a) Study. The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study on the privacy and mental health of teens who use financial technology products that shall do the following:
(1) Identify the type of financial technology products that teens use.
(2) Identify the potential risks to the privacy and mental health of teens that may result from the use of such financial technology products.
(3) Determine whether existing laws are sufficient to address any such risks.
(b) Report. Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Comptroller General shall submit to Congress a report that details the results of the study conducted under subsection (a) and recommendations for any legislative or administrative action as the Comptroller General determines appropriate.
B Data Broker Disclosures
VII General Provisions