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Montana hearing on Child Digital Protection Act focuses on monetized family vlogs, trust for minors
Summary
Rep. Katie Zolnikov told the House Energy Committee HB 392 creates a trust and a right-to-be-forgotten for minors featured in monetized family content, triggered by a 10¢ per-view threshold and a 30% "featured" content test. Committee members queried enforcement, placement in code and definitions.
Representative Katie Zolnikov introduced House Bill 392, the Child Digital Protection Act, to the House Energy, Technology, and Federal Relations Committee, saying the measure aims to give children featured in family-produced online video content some of the financial and privacy protections established long ago for child actors. "This is the Child Digital Protection Act and Montana will be the fourteenth state to have introduced and hopefully passed this legislation," Zolnikov said during opening remarks.
The bill would create three core protections, Zolnikov said: a monetary threshold for when protections apply (set at 10¢ per view), a content threshold requiring that at least 30% of monetized content within a 30‑day period feature the minor, and tiered trust contributions from gross earnings (10%, 25%, or 50% depending on the child’s prominence in the content). Zolnikov summarized the purpose: "Children featured in family produced video content generate…
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