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Subcommittee tables bill that would ban TikTok access for children and create private right of action
Summary
A House courts subcommittee laid House Bill 2568 on the table after debate over scope, enforcement and whether singling out TikTok is effective or enforceable; vote 4-2.
House Bill 2568, the measure sponsored by Delegate Leftwich that would bar TikTok (and ByteDance Ltd.) from providing access to the platform to any child in the Commonwealth and create a private cause of action for parents or guardians, was laid on the table by the House Courts of Justice Civil Law Subcommittee on a 4-2 vote.
The bill’s patron, identified in the hearing as Delegate Leftwich, told the subcommittee the bill “would prohibit, TikTok and ByteDance Ltd from providing access to TikTok to any child within the commonwealth and allows a child or child's parent,…
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