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Utah panel advances bill to protect child influencers, require trust accounts and takedown rights
Summary
A House committee adopted a substitute and passed House Bill 322 to require set-asides for child performers, create a right for former child influencers to remove monetized material at 18, and offer market-based and formula options for compensation.
A House committee on Thursday adopted a substitute to House Bill 322 and passed the measure unanimously to create financial protections and a takedown right for child performers, including children who appear in social‑media content.
Sponsor Representative Owens said the bill responds to cases in which children earned money in family-produced content and later had those funds withdrawn by guardians. “The statute says 15% of the child's earnings need to be put into a trust that's available when the kid reaches adulthood,” Owens said, noting the measure follows laws in other states.
The bill takes two principal approaches. First, it requires that 15% of traditional child-performer earnings be placed into a trust available at majority, and it offers three routes for social‑media and family content: an arm’s‑length negotiated agreement; compensation pegged to a market comparison of represented minors; or a statutory fallback formula. That…
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