Amendment ID: S3164-12-R1

Redraft Amendment 12

Replacing Age Verification

Mr. Tarr moves that the proposed new draft be amended by striking lines 104-124 in their entirety and inserting in place thereof the following:-

“Section 2. (a)(1) A covered operator shall not mandate the collection of government-issued identification or biometric data to ascertain the age of its users. A covered operator shall enable default social media platform safety settings for a user if the operator: (1) receives a standardized, automated age-preference signal from a user's device, operating system, browser, or device-level parental controls indicating the user is a minor; or (2) has actual, documented knowledge that the user is a covered minor. The default safety settings shall:  (i) disable an addictive social media feed;  (ii) disable push notifications to a user between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. in the commonwealth’s time zone;  (iii) disable autoplay or other auto-advance functions that continuously present content to a user;  (iv) disable infinite scroll or other endless scrolling or pagination functions; and  (v) require a clear and conspicuous reminder after the user has accessed the social media platform for more than 1 cumulative hour of use in any 24-hour period and every 30 minutes of cumulative use thereafter that the user has accessed the social media platform for any such amount of time; provided, however, that the social media platform shall require the user to acknowledge the reminder before continuing use of the social media platform."