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Panel advances bill to direct tech‑settlement funds into children's mental‑health programs
Summary
House Bill 2270 would create a Children's Digital Protection Fund to channel proceeds from litigation against digital companies into mental‑health services, prevention and education; the committee sent the measure to finance, ways and means.
The Judiciary Committee advanced a proposal to create a Children's Digital Protection Fund intended to use money recovered from litigation against technology companies to support mental‑health and safety programs for minors.
The sponsor described House Bill 2270 as a way to ensure settlement proceeds or other state recoveries are reinvested into programs for children, including mental‑health treatment, suicide‑prevention initiatives, research on social media's impact, law‑enforcement resources to combat digital exploitation and education for parents and schools. "This fund ensures that money recovered from the tech companies that harm minors is reinvested directly into protecting restoring the mental health and safety of Tennessee Children," the sponsor said.
Committee members moved the bill, and the clerk reported the vote sending the amended measure to finance, ways and means (13 ayes, 0 nos, 2 present not voting). The committee did not adopt specific appropriation language in this hearing; fiscal questions will be considered in the receiving committee.
