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Panel advances bill to update child-labor protections for monetized online content
Summary
Representative Travis told the committee House Bill 1723 updates child-labor law to define digital content creation, apply thresholds (child appears in ≥30% of content, creator earns at least $15,000 annually) and require protective trust accounts for a child’s share; committee approved and referred the bill to Commerce.
Representative Travis presented House Bill 1723 and an amendment to address modern monetized social media content involving minors. He described thresholds and protections designed to avoid unintentionally regulating cloud, broadband and e-commerce platforms, and said protections would require a portion of a child’s earnings from content in which they play a significant role be placed in a protective trust account.
The sponsor said a child would be considered engaged in content creation only if three conditions are met — the child appears in at least 30% of the content, the content generates revenue, and the creator earns at least $15,000 annually from the content. The amendment also includes provisions aimed at preventing financial exploitation or sexualization of minors. The committee voted to send HB 1723 to Commerce (clerk recorded 7–0).
