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  • Introduced
    Jan 17, 2025
  • Passed House
  • Passed Senate
  • Signed into Law
HB 5474
Connecticut House Bill
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AN ACT CONCERNING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND MINORS. To (1) require the owner of a social media platform to incorporate an online safety center into, and establish a cyberbullying policy for, the owner's social media platform, (2) redefine "heightened risk of harm to minors" to include processing minors' personal data in a manner that presents any reasonably foreseeable risk of harm to minors' physical or mental health, and (3) require the controller of an online service, product or feature that is offered to minors to (A) include a default setting in such service, product or feature to prevent adults from sending unsolicited communications to minors, (B) not use any system design feature to significantly increase, sustain or extend minors' use of such service, product or feature, and (C) disclose to the Attorney General a plan established and implemented to mitigate or eliminate any heightened risk of harm to minors.
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House • Mar 24, 2025: File Number 184 (LCO)
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House Calendar: House Calendar, Apr 16, 2025
Position: 137

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Votes
YES: 15

NO: 2
  • Dauphinais A
  • Mastrofrancesco G

OTHER: 0
YES: 15

NO: 2
  • Dauphinais A
  • Mastrofrancesco G

OTHER: 0
Actions
  • Mar 24, 2025 | House
    • Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office (LCO)
    • Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
    • House Calendar Number 137
    • File Number 184 (LCO)
  • Mar 17, 2025 | House
    • Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/24/25 12:00 PM (LCO)
  • Mar 10, 2025 | House
    • Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office (LCO)
  • Mar 06, 2025 | House
    • Joint Favorable (KID)
  • Feb 25, 2025 | House
    • Referred to Joint Committee on Children
  • Feb 24, 2025 | House
    • Drafted by Committee
  • Feb 18, 2025 | House
    • Vote to Draft (KID)
  • Jan 31, 2025 | House
    • Public Hearing 02/06
  • Jan 28, 2025 | House
    • Reserved for Subject Matter Public Hearing (KID)
  • Jan 17, 2025 | House
    • Referred to Joint Committee on Children