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Committee endorses Children's Digital Protection Fund bill to channel tech‑company recoveries toward child mental‑health programs
Summary
SB 20‑61, proposed by the attorney general, would create a Children's Digital Protection Fund to use monies recovered from technology companies to support child mental‑health and anti‑exploitation programs; an amendment was adopted and the bill advanced to finance by a 9‑0 vote.
Senate Bill 20‑61, carried to the committee by the sponsor from the attorney general's office, would create the Children's Digital Protection Fund. The sponsor said funds—money recovered from technology companies that harm minors—would be available for mental‑health services for minors, suicide prevention initiatives, research into technology's effects on children, law enforcement resources to combat digital exploitation, parent and school education programs, and support for the K‑12 mental‑health endowment fund.
The committee adopted a technical amendment without debate and recorded a unanimous roll‑call vote (9 ayes) to send the bill to finance. The sponsor emphasized the fund's role in reinvesting recovered monies directly into services for children affected by online harms.
