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Senate passes age-verification bill for commercial sites with pornographic content
Summary
House File 864, which requires reasonable age verification on commercial websites and apps where a substantial portion of content (33% or more) is pornographic for minors, passed the Senate after adoption of a strike-and-replace amendment; supporters cited child-protection and privacy safeguards, and the final roll call was 46-0.
Senator Allans floor-managed House File 864 as a narrowly targeted bill to require age verification on commercial websites and apps where a substantial portion (33% or more) of content is pornographic for minors. He said the measure follows a Texas statutory model and includes privacy safeguards, limited data retention, and prohibitions on selling or sharing personal data.
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