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 |Add To My Favorites |Track Bill | Version: 07/09/26 - Amended Senate
 04/23/26 - Amended Assembly
 04/14/26 - Amended Assembly
 03/19/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/04/26 - Introduced

 AB-1709 Covered platforms: age restriction: e-Safety Advisory Commission.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/09/2026 09:00 PM

AB1709:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 09, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 23, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 14, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 19, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1709

Introduced by Assembly Members Lowenthal, Alvarez, Bauer-Kahan, Bonta, Hoover, Muratsuchi, Patterson, and Wicks
(Principal coauthor: Senator Stern)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Arambula, Bennett, Berman, Boerner, Bryan, Calderon, Castillo, Connolly, Dixon, Gabriel, Jeff Gonzalez, Hadwick, Haney, Harabedian, Hart, Jackson, Johnson, Kalra, McKinnor, Nguyen, Ortega, Pacheco, Papan, Patel, Pellerin, Quirk-Silva, Rivas, Rogers, Blanca Rubio, Schiavo,
 Sharp-Collins, Soria, Stefani, Valencia, and Wallis)
(Coauthor: Senator Allen)(Coauthors: Senators Allen, Jones, and Weber Pierson)

February 04, 2026

An act to add Chapter 22.9 (commencing with Section 22682) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, and to add Chapter 5.4 (commencing with Section 11530) to Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, relating to business.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1709, as amended, Lowenthal.
 Covered platforms: age restriction: e-Safety Advisory Commission.

 Existing law, the Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act, prohibits an operator of an addictive internet-based service or application from providing an addictive feed, as defined, to a user unless the operator does not have actual knowledge that the user is a minor, as specified, or the operator has obtained verifiable parental consent to provide an addictive feed to the user who is a minor.

Existing law, the Digital Age Assurance Act, beginning January 1, 2027, requires a person who owns, maintains, or controls a software application, as defined, to request age bracket data sent by a real-time secure application programming interface or operating system with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded and launched.

This bill would prohibit a covered platform, as defined, from permitting providing an addictive feature, as defined, to a user who is under 16 years of age to create or maintain an account on the covered platform and would require a covered platform to implement reasonable measures to prevent ensure that users under 16 years of age from accessing or using accounts
 are not offered or provided any addictive feature on the covered platform. The bill would also authorize the Attorney General to, in consultation with the e-Safety Advisory Commission, adopt regulations to implement and enforce the bill in order to further the purpose of protecting minors online, including by altering the scope of “covered platform” if the Attorney General determines that doing so is necessary to ensure that “covered platform” applies to internet websites, online services, online applications, or mobile applications that make addictive features, as defined, available to users under 16 years of age.

This bill would impose a civil penalty upon a noncompliant platform and would require its provisions to be enforced by a civil action brought only by the Attorney General or a local public prosecutor, as specified.

This bill would also establish the e-Safety Advisory Commission
 within the Department of Justice to advise the Attorney General on matters related to online safety, including the implementation and enforcement of the provisions described above, and would require the commission to, on or before January 1 of each year, report to the Legislature and the Governor on its activities under the bill, as specified.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Social media platforms are intentionally designed to maximize user engagement t