Sammy’s Law
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became Law
Overview
This bill requires large social media platforms to provide APIs that allow parents and children to delegate account management to third-party safety software, giving parents technical tools to monitor and control their child's online interactions and content.
Why it matters: The legislation directly supports parental authority over children's online environment and digital activities, which aligns with Christian parents' concern to oversee their children's media consumption and protect them from harmful online content.
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. Currently, social media platforms control their own APIs and parental access features, with no federal requirement to provide third-party safety software access.
If passed: This bill would require large social media platforms to create and maintain real-time APIs that allow third-party safety software providers to manage a child's online interactions, content, and account settings on behalf of the child or parent. In practice, Christian parents could use approved safety software to monitor and control their children's social media activity more directly, delegating that authority to tools of their choosing rather than relying solely on platforms' built-in controls.
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Likely supporters & opponents
Likely support
- Christian and religious-liberty parenting organizations — Gives parents more direct tools to protect children's faith and values online and fulfill their biblical responsibility to guide their children's upbringing.
- Child safety and internet-safety advocacy groups — Enables third-party experts to provide better real-time monitoring and content filtering to protect minors from harmful material and predatory behavior.
Likely opposition
- Large social media platforms — Mandatory API access increases compliance costs, creates security and privacy risks, and reduces platform control over user experience and data.
- Privacy and civil-liberties organizations — Delegating account control to third-party software may create new vulnerabilities, data-sharing risks, or surveillance concerns for minors.
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
This bill directly empowers parents to delegate real-time oversight of their children's social media use to safety software of their choice, strengthening parental authority and ability to protect children from harmful online content—core values for Christian families seeking to raise their children according to their faith convictions.
An AI assessment from a Christian-family perspective — religious freedom, parental rights, and freedom in education — not legal or voting advice.
Official summary
A bill to require large social media platform providers to create, maintain, and make available to third-party safety software providers a set of real-time application programming interfaces, through which a child or a parent may delegate permission to a third-party safety software provider to manage the online interactions, content, and account settings of such child on the large scale social media platform in the same manner as is available to the child, and for other purposes.
Sponsors
- Jon Husted (R)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R)
- Mark Warner (D)
Status timeline
- 2026-03-20Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.S
H = House · S = Senate · A = Assembly