HR 7757
Passed a chamber
Requires online platforms, video game providers, and AI chatbot companies to add safeguards for users under 17, including parental controls, age checks for sexual content, and limits on data collection about children and teens.
Official title: KIDS Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
03-MAR-2026
Referred
03-MAR-2026
Passed
29-JUN-2026
Senate
Received
13-JUL-2026
- Requires platforms with sexual material harmful to minors to use technology verification measures to keep minors from accessing it, starting one year after enactment
- Requires social platforms to offer minors default privacy settings, parental tools, and teen messaging controls, and bars design features that encourage compulsive use
- Requires video game providers to give parents controls over communication with minors, and requires AI chatbots to disclose they are not human, share suicide hotline resources, and suggest a break after three hours
- Amends the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act to protect users under 14 as children and users 14 to 17 as teens, and requires data brokers that sell minors' data to register with the FTC
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (03-MAR-2026); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 29-JUN-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Judiciary Committee (House)
- Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
- Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee (Senate)
Commerce
■ 1 D
1 Democrat