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Senate amends proposal on age verification to use ID-based system; litigation and industry pushback cited
Summary
Senator Behm presented an amendment to replace device-based age verification with an ID-based commercial verification standard for access to certain online material. Supporters said ID-based verification would shift compliance to content-level controls; opponents and communications stakeholders cautioned about litigation risk and implementation.
Senator Behm presented an amendment to Senate Bill 2380 that replaces device-based age verification language with an ID-based approach requiring a commercial age verification system. He told the Senate Industry and Business Committee the amendment focuses on identity verification rather than device-based methods.
"If you go on page 5 ... it says require an individual attempting to access the material to comply with a commercial age verification system…
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