New York A 9415: Enacts the "get congestion pricing right act"

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A09415 Summary:

BILL NOA09415 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBrown K

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COSPNSRGiglio, Reilly, McDonough, DeStefano, Maher, Hawley, Brown E

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 45-A §§1510 - 1514, Gen Bus L

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Protects minors online from social media and harmful content; establishes penalties for failing to restrict certain minors from certain content.

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BILL NOA09415 

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12/19/2025referred to consumer affairs and protection

01/07/2026referred to consumer affairs and protection

03/04/2026enacting clause stricken

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 9415

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 December 19, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN, GIGLIO, REILLY, McDONOUGH, DeSTEFANO,
 MAHER, HAWLEY, E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Committee on
 Consumer Affairs and Protection

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to protecting
 minors online from social media and harmful content

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article
 2 45-A to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 45-A
 4 PROTECTING MINORS ONLINE
 5 Section 1510. Definitions.
 6 1511. Minors as social media platform account holders.
 7 1512. Content harmful to minors.
 8 1513. Age verification.
 9 1514. Enforcement.
 10 § 1510. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following
 11 terms shall have the following meanings:
 12 1. "Account holder" means a resident who opens an account or creates a
 13 profile or is identified by the social media platform by a unique iden-
 14 tifier while using or accessing a social media platform when the social
 15 media platform knows or has reason to believe the resident is located in
 16 this state.
 17 2. "Anonymous age verification" means a commercially reasonable method
 18 used by a government agency or a business for the purpose of age verifi-
 19 cation which is conducted by a nongovernmental, independent third party
 20 organized under the laws of a state of the United States which:
 21 (a) has its principal place of business in a state of the United
 22 States; and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14069-01-5

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 1 (b) is not owned or controlled by a company formed in a foreign coun-
 2 try, a government of a foreign country, or any other entity formed in a
 3 foreign country.
 4 3. "Daily active users" means the number of unique users in the United
 5 States who used the social media platform at least eighty percent of the
 6 days during the previous twelve months, or, if the social media platform
 7 did not exist during the entirety of the previous twelve months, the
 8 number of unique users in the United States who used the social media
 9 platform at least eighty percent of the days during the previous month.
 10 4. "Distribute" means to issue, sell, give, provide, deliver, trans-
 11 fer, transmit, circulate, or disseminate by any means.
 12 5. "Material harmful to minors" means any material that:
 13 (a) the average person applying contemporary community standards would
 14 find, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
 15 (b) depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct;
 16 and
 17 (c) when taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, poli-
 18 tical, or scientific value for minors.
 19 6. "News-gathering organization" means any of the following:
 20 (a) A newspaper, news publication, or news source, printed or
 21 published online or on a mobile platform, engaged in reporting current
 22 news and matters of public interest, and an employee thereof who can
 23 provide documentation of such employment.
 24 (b) A radio broadcast station, television broadcast station, cable
 25 television operator, or wire service, and an employee thereof who can
 26 provide documentation of such employment.
 27 7. "Publish" means to communicate or make information available to
 28 another person or entity