Virginia Senate Bill 684 (Prefiled Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 18 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-31 - Continued to 2025 in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 6-N 1-A)
Pending: Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Online Children's Safety Protection Act established; civil penalties. Creates the Online Children's Safety Protection Act, which requires certain duties of covered entities, defined in the bill, to protect the best interests of children who use online services, products, or features. The bill requires any covered entity that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by a child to complete a data protection impact assessment, the details of which are described in the bill, within two years before any new online service, product, or feature is offered to the public on or after July 1, 2024. The bill also prohibits certain actions by covered entities and authorizes the Attorney General to impose penalties and initiate actions against any covered entity that violates the provisions of the bill.

Online Children's Safety Protection Act; established, civil penalties.

Sen. William Stanley [R]

2024-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 6-N 1-A) (Y: 8 N: 6 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-31	Senate	Continued to 2025 in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 6-N 1-A)
2024-01-18	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2024-01-18	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 24104080D

SB684 (Carry Over) 2024-01-31 - Continued to 2025 in General Laws and Technology (8-Y 6-N 1-A)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
59	1	603	(n/a)	See Bill Text
59	1	607	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?251+sum+SB684
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?251+ful+SB684+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?251+oth+SB684F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?251+vot+S12C0069+SB0684