# H.R. 7757 (119th): Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act or the KIDS Act

Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act or the KIDS Act This bill requires specified online platforms to establish safeguards for minors. The safeguards include (1) limiting access to specified sexual material, (2) providing parental controls on social media and online video game platforms, and (3) requiring artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to disclose certain information to users who are minors. First, publicly available online platforms on which more than one-third of the content is considered sexual material harmful to minors under the bill must adopt technology to identify minors and prevent them from accessing such material. Next, social media platforms must (1) implement default settings for minors that limit compulsive usage features and the ability of other users to communicate with minors, and (2) provide tools for parents to manage the privacy and account settings of a minor. Social media platforms may not allow ephemeral messaging features for minors. The bill also requires online video game platforms to provide tools that allow parents to (1) limit communication between a minor and other users of the platform, and (2) restrict purchases by a minor on the platform. Further, providers of AI chatbots must disclose to users who are minors (1) that the chatbot is an AI system and not a human, and (2) suicide and crisis intervention hotline information. Finally, the bill requires specified studies and reports about the effects of social media platforms on minors and provides for enforcement of the bill's requirements by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: capped at tier 2.
Lane: child_protection. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: children_welfare. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: defends_children. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: family_policy. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: minor_privacy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: online_safety. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: sexual_material_access. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Cap: tier 2. The Design B factor of 0.5 applies to residual and exposure.
Review note: Same reasoning as S. 9 / H.R. 28 / H.R. 2616: online-safety regulation for minors (age verification for sexual material, parental controls, chatbot disclosures). It is neither taking innocent life nor itself the sexual corruption of children. Tier 1 is reserved for the gravest matters, applied equally to all parties. This bill still scores in its protective direction, but only at tier 2; a nay on it is a grave compromise, not a disqualifier.
Stored polarity: good. A yea supports the bill. A nay is the penalized direction when the tag is scored as a protection. A yea on a credit tag is a credit.
Roll 228: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill's core operative provisions directly restrain harms to minors: blocking access to sexual material harmful to minors, limiting exploitative contact and compulsive design for minors, and requiring disclosure and crisis resources for minor chatbot users. These defend children, which is a clear good under general equity. Prudential concerns about age verification, platform regulation, and federal enforcement are real but secondary to the protective purpose.
Theological note: The measure bears on the protection of children from sexual corruption and exploitative exposure, a concern Scripture treats seriously (Matthew 18:6; Proverbs 22:6). Its parental tools touch on parental authority and family integrity. Age-identification mechanisms and content regulation raise prudential questions about privacy, lawful speech, and the state's proper reach, which Christians should weigh carefully with the duty of parents and the limits of civil power. This is issue relevance, not a final candidate judgment.

## Recorded votes

Roll 228: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Yea 267 · Nay 117 · Other 47.

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