Sammy’s Law
Official title: To require large social media platform providers to create, maintain, and make available to third-party safety software providers a set of real-time applicatio… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: 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 or legal guardian of a child 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 social media platform on the same terms as such child, and for other purposes.
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Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
Sammy’s Law
This bill requires large social media platforms to permit certain providers of safety software to monitor and manage the activity of children under the age of 17 on such platforms.
Specifically, large social media platforms must make available a mechanism by which a child or their parent or guardian may permit a provider of safety software to (1) manage the child’s interactions, content, and account settings on the platform; and (2) regularly access the child’s user data.
A software provider may only disclose a child’s data under limited circumstances, including to the child’s parent or guardian if the child is experiencing or is at foreseeable risk of experiencing specified harms. Such harms include suicide, eating disorders, sexual abuse, harassment, and academic dishonesty. The provider may only share data necessary for a reasonable parent or caregiver to understand that the child is experiencing or is at risk of harm.
To participate, a software provider must register with the Federal Trade Commission, undergo a security review, and demonstrate that, among other requirements, the provider is based in the United States and will use a child's data solely to protect them from harm.
Under the bill, a large social media platform is generally a service that enables a child to share content through the internet with other users that the child has become aware of solely through the platform, and which has more than 100 million monthly global active users or generates more than $1 billion in gross annual revenue.
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- SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
- SIIA
- NEWS MEDIA ALLIANCE
- META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES
- INTERNET WORKS
- ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- White House Office
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2657: Sammy’s Law. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2657/
"H.R. 2657: Sammy’s Law." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2657/.
H.R. 2657, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2657/.
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