S. 4159 119th Congress Senate

Sammy’s Law

Official title: 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 app… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: 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.

Introduced: March 20, 2026 Introduced by: Jon Husted Republican · Ohio See on congress.gov

Science, Technology, Communications

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Mar 20, 2026

Introduced in Senate

Mar 20, 2026

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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What's happening now March 20, 2026

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Bill text 1 version

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Senate

Lobbying activity 11

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION
for ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
INVARIANT LLC
for BARK TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · Georgia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
CURRENTSTRATEGIC LLC
for BRIGHTCANARY · Washington · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
CHARTWELL STRATEGY GROUP LLC
for BARK TECHNOLOGIES · Utah · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION
for ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)
INVARIANT LLC
for BARK TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · Georgia · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)

Bodies those filers lobbied

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
10 filings
SENATE
10 filings
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
3 filings
White House Office
3 filings
Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
2 filings

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Cosponsors 2

Britt, Katie Boyd

Alabama · Mar 20, 2026

Warner, Mark R.

Virginia · Mar 20, 2026

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4159: Sammy’s Law. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4159/

MLA

"S. 4159: Sammy’s Law." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4159/.

Bluebook (legal)

S. 4159, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4159/.

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[S. 4159: Sammy’s Law](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4159/)