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
(a) Data broker registration. Not later than 12 months after the date of the enactment of this subtitle, and annually thereafter, a covered data broker shall register with the Commission by paying the registration fee set by the Commission under subsection (c) and by filing a registration statement that includes the following information:
(1) The legal name of the covered data broker.
(2) A contact person and the primary physical address, human-monitored email address, human-monitored telephone number, and website address for the covered data broker.
(3) A description of each category of personal data sold by the covered data broker.
(4) A statement of whether the covered data broker implements a purchaser credentialing process.
(5) A description of any incident of unauthorized access to personal data that the covered data broker has reported to a Federal or State governmental entity pursuant to an applicable law, rule, or regulation during the year before the year in which the registration is filed and, if known, the total number of consumers affected by each previously reported incident of such unauthorized access.
(b) Data broker registry. Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this subtitle, the Commission shall establish and maintain on a publicly available website of the Commission a searchable, central registry of covered data brokers registered under subsection (a) that includes—
(1) a search feature that allows members of the public to search for and identify covered data brokers; and
(2) for each covered data broker, the information required by paragraphs (1) through (5) of subsection (a).
(c) Annual registration fee. The Commission may charge a covered data broker an annual registration fee of at least $22,500 (as adjusted on January 1 each year by the percentage increase (if any), during the preceding 12-month period, in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics).
VII General Provisions