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
B Data Broker Disclosures
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
In this subtitle:
(1) Covered data broker
(A) In general. The term covered data broker means an entity that, for valuable consideration, sells, licenses, rents, trades, transfers, releases, discloses, provides access to, or otherwise makes available to another entity personal data of an individual the data brokers knows is a minor that the entity did not collect directly from such individual to another entity that is not acting as a service provider.
(B) Exception. The term covered data broker does not include an entity to the extent that the entity does any of the following:
(i) Transmits personal data of an individual, including any communication of such individual, at the request or direction of such individual.
(ii) Provides, maintains, or offers a product or service with respect to which personal data, or access to such data, is not the product or service.
(iii) Reports or publishes news or information that concerns local, national, or international events or other matters of public interest.
(iv) Acts as a service provider.
(2) Knows. The term knows means to have actual knowledge or willful disregard.
(3) Minor. The term minor means an individual under the age of 18 years.
(4) Personal data. The term personal data has the meaning given the term personal information in section 1302 of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 6501) (as amended by section 602(a)(4) of this Act).
(5) Service provider. The term service provider means an entity that—
(A) collects, processes, or transfers personal data on behalf of and at the direction of—
(i) the minor to whom such information pertains;
(ii) a parent of such a minor;
(iii) a Federal, State, or local government entity; or
(iv) an entity acting as a covered data broker or another service provider; and
(B) receives data from or on behalf of an individual or entity described in subparagraph (A).
VII General Provisions