KIDS Act
Also known as Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act
Where it stands
- Introduced3/3/26
- Passed HousePassed 6/29/26
- Senate
- President
- Law
Passed the House 267–117 on June 29, 2026 (Roll Call 228 →). Received in the Senate on July 13, 2026. No Senate action since.
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Roll calls on this bill
- Democratic104 Yea · 85 Nay · 23 Not voting
- Republican162 Yea · 32 Nay · 24 Not voting
- Independent / Other1 Yea · 0 Nay · 0 Not voting
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.
What happens next
The Senate must pass the same text, then it goes to the President.
If it isn't enacted by Jan 3, 2027, it expires when the 119th Congress ends.
All actions (11)
- 3/3/26Introduced in House
- 3/3/26Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 6/29/26Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 6/29/26Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4280-4296)
- 6/29/26DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 7757.
- 6/29/26At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
- 6/29/26Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4302)
- 6/29/26Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 267 - 117 (Roll no. 228). (text: CR H4280-4292)
- 6/29/26On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 267 - 117 (Roll no. 228). (text: CR H4280-4292)
- 6/29/26Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 7/13/26Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.