Florida Senate - 2021 SB 520



By Senator Burgess





20-00466-21 2021520__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to social media websites; creating s.
3 364.401, F.S.; defining the term “social media
4 website”; requiring social media websites to provide
5 individual and business users of the site with notice
6 within a specified timeframe that the website has
7 suspended or disabled the user’s account; providing an
8 effective date.
9
10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12 Section 1. Section 364.401, Florida Statutes, is created to
13 read:
14 364.401 Notice for suspending or disabling social media
15 website accounts.—
16 (1) As used in this section, the term “social media
17 website” means an Internet website or application through which
18 a user creates, shares, and interacts with content, including
19 videos, still photographs, blogs, video blogs, podcasts, instant
20 or text messages, e-mail, online services or accounts, or
21 Internet website profiles or locations.
22 (2) If an individual or business user’s social media
23 website account is disabled or suspended by the social media
24 website, the owner or operator of the website must provide
25 electronic notice to the user within 30 days after taking such
26 action. The notice must be in writing and must explain why the
27 user’s account was suspended or disabled.
28 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.