SCREEN Act Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net Act Safeguarding Adolescents From Exploitative BOTs Act SAFE BOTs Act Kids Online Safety Act Stop Profiling Youth and Kids Act SPY Kids Act Kids Internet Safety Partnership Act Safe Social Media Act No Fentanyl on Social Media Act Assessing Safety Tools for Parents and Minors Act Promoting a Safe Internet for Minors Act AI Warnings And Resources for Education Act AWARE Act
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became Law
Overview
This bill addresses online safety for children and teens through various mechanisms including parental notification, transparency requirements, and protections against predatory practices on social media and internet platforms. It aims to empower parents with tools and information to oversee their children's online activity.
Why it matters: Christian families concerned with parental authority over their children's upbringing and access to information will be affected by rules that either strengthen or limit parents' ability to monitor and control their children's online environment and to receive timely notice of concerning content or contacts.
Topic: Parental rights · classifier confidence 72%
What this changes
Creates a new law or program
Law today: The bill does not spell out the prior law.
If passed: This bill would establish new federal requirements to protect children and teens online, likely including parental controls, age verification, limits on algorithmic recommendation of harmful content, restrictions on addictive design features, and disclosure of AI use on social media. Christian families would gain legal tools to monitor their children's online activity and could have greater say in what algorithms expose their kids to.
AI-generated from the bill text — verify against the official text.
Likely supporters & opponents
Likely support
- parental-rights and family-advocacy organizations — Parents need federal power to protect children from predators, addictive design, and exploitation online.
- child-safety and anti-exploitation organizations — Tech companies have failed to self-regulate; federal standards are needed to prevent harm to minors.
- faith-based organizations — Protecting children from pornography, grooming, and harmful content aligns with religious values of family protection.
Likely opposition
- technology and social-media companies — Broad compliance requirements and age verification would be costly, reduce services, and create privacy risks for users.
- civil-liberties and privacy-advocacy groups — Age verification and algorithmic oversight could enable government surveillance and restrict free speech.
AI-inferred typical positions based on the bill’s substance — general stakeholder categories, not confirmed endorsements.
Should I support this?
Likely helpful for Christian families
The bill appears designed to empower parents with tools and information to protect children online and to limit corporate algorithms that promote content harmful to minors—both align with Christian parental authority and the protection of children from exploitation and inappropriate material.
An AI assessment from a Christian-family perspective — religious freedom, parental rights, and freedom in education — not legal or voting advice.
Official summary
To protect children and teens online, empower parents and strengthen families, and for other purposes.
Sponsors
- Brett Guthrie (R)
- Frank Pallone (D)
Status timeline
- 2026-07-13Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.S
- 2026-06-29Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.H
- 2026-06-29On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 267 - 117 (Roll no. 228). (text: CR H4280-4292)H
- 2026-06-29Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4302)H
- 2026-06-29At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.H
- 2026-06-29DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 7757.H
- 2026-06-29Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4280-4296)H
- 2026-06-29Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.H
- 2026-03-03Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.H
- 2026-03-03Introduced in HouseH
H = House · S = Senate · A = Assembly