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Senate committee hears bill to bar social‑media accounts for under‑18s through age verification
Summary
House Bill 186 would require major social media platforms to verify users' ages by commercially reasonable methods and block users under 18 from opening accounts; noncompliance could trigger enforcement by the Texas Attorney General.
House Bill 186 would require social media platforms that meet the bill's definition to use a commercially reasonable method relying on public or private transactional data to verify a user's age and prevent any person under 18 from opening an account. The bill would limit use of the verification data to identity confirmation and prohibit sale or other secondary uses of that information; noncompliant platforms could face action by the consumer protection division of the Texas Attorney General's…
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