Florida · Senate Bill 1438 · 2025 Regular Session

Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors

SB 1438 Sponsored by Erin Grall Died in committee

  1. Introduced Feb 26, 2025
  2. In committee Mar 6, 2025
  3. Passed the Senate  
  4. Passed the House  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law Jul 1, 2025

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors; Requiring a developer to, beginning on a specified date, make specific determinations about covered applications, provide notice to application stores about such applications, and provide certain features for parents to protect a user that is a child; requiring a covered manufacturer to, beginning on a specified date, take certain steps to determine specified information…

Read the full title (96 words)

Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors; Requiring a developer to, beginning on a specified date, make specific determinations about covered applications, provide notice to application stores about such applications, and provide certain features for parents to protect a user that is a child; requiring a covered manufacturer to, beginning on a specified date, take certain steps to determine specified information about the user, provide certain notices, and provide developers of covered applications with a specified means to verify the age of a user; providing requirements for devices sold before a specified date; providing construction, etc.

Every action

7 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Commerce and Tourism; Judiciary; Rules · Senate Commerce and Tourism
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/17/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed · Senate Commerce and Tourism
  5. CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/25/25, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed · Senate Commerce and Tourism
  6. SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  7. CommitteeDied in Commerce and Tourism · Senate Commerce and Tourism

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

From Florida's official records (flsenate.gov), checked Nov 14, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.