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A05114 Summary:

BILL NOA05114 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBrown K

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COSPNSRMcDonough, Manktelow, Palmesano, DeStefano

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 39-FFF §§899-oo & 899-pp, Gen Bus L

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Requires online products targeted towards children provide features to protect child users including providing screen time controls, prohibiting the promotion of harmful or illegal activities, and removing features which inappropriately amplify the level of engagement a child user has with the online product.

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BILL NOA05114 

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02/12/2025referred to consumer affairs and protection

01/07/2026referred to consumer affairs and protection

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5114

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 12, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring
 online products targeted towards children provide certain features to
 protect child users

 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 39-FFF to read as follows:

 3 ARTICLE 39-FFF
 4 CHILD USE OF ONLINE PRODUCTS
 5 Section 899-oo. Definitions.
 6 899-pp. Child use of online products.
 7 § 899-oo. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following
 8 terms shall have the following meanings:
 9 1. "Bureau" shall mean the bureau of internet and technology in the
 10 office of the New York attorney general.
 11 2. "Child" or "children" shall mean a consumer or consumers under
 12 eighteen years of age.
 13 3. "Child user" shall mean a child accessing an online product with a
 14 device.
 15 4. "Online product" shall mean an online service, feature, or platform
 16 that is accessible to users with a digital device.
 17 5. "Targeted towards child users" shall mean that the entity offering
 18 an online product should know that its product is accessible to and used
 19 by children. The bureau may consider such factors as the entity offering
 20 an online product's internal research about such product's users, exist-
 21 ing evidence of user behavior, whether advertisements featured on the
 22 online product, including third-party advertisements, are likely to
 23 appeal to children, the content of complaints received about the product

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08783-01-5

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 1 from parents, children, or other individuals that indicate the age of
 2 users accessing the online product, content and design features of the
 3 product such as animation, musical or audio content, the presence of
 4 children or influencers popular with children, how the entity offering
 5 an online product describes and promotes the product, and any other
 6 characteristic the bureau deems relevant when determining how an entity
 7 offering an online product should know that such online product is
 8 accessible to and used by children.
 9 § 899-pp. Child use of online products. 1. Requirement for certain
 10 settings. (a) All entities offering an online product targeted towards
 11 child users in this state shall utilize screen time limitation features
 12 which allow for the parent or guardian of a child user to limit the
 13 amount of time the child user is able to access the online product and
 14 when the child user is able to access the online product.
 15 (b) No entities offering an online product targeted towards child
 16 users in this state shall utilize a method of providing content to a
 17 child user which promotes harmful or illegal activity.
 18 (c) The bureau shall have the discretion to ban auto-play, push
 19 notifications, prompts, in-app purchases, or any other feature in an
 20 online product targeted towards child users that it deems to be designed
 21 to inappropriately amplify the level of engagement a child user has with
 22 such product.
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