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The bill creates a federally coordinated program to deliver standardized online-safety education and resources for minors and their caregivers—improving awareness and accountability but raising privacy/scope concerns and modest taxpayer costs.
Children and teens nationwide will gain coordinated, federally promoted online-safety education and resources within 180 days, improving awareness of online risks and protective behaviors.
Parents, educators, and schools will receive promoted best practices and publicly accessible materials to help protect minors online, making it easier for families and schools to implement consistent safety steps.
Federal coordination (led by the FTC) and annual reporting for 10 years will increase transparency and accountability about government efforts to protect minors online, giving states, nonprofits, and the public clearer information on program performance.
Children and families could face increased privacy and surveillance risks if greater federal involvement and information-sharing with industry and schools is not tightly limited and governed.
Parents and families may object to broad or vague definitions of 'online safety' that allow outreach to cover contested topics (e.g., substance access, gambling, mental-health interventions), creating disputes over curriculum and acceptable content.
Taxpayers could face increased costs to fund a new nationwide FTC-led education campaign and ongoing reporting and administration over a 10-year period.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates an FTC-led national public awareness and education program on online safety for minors, with partner outreach and annual reports for 10 years.
Official title: To amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to promote online safety for minors, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 25, 2025 by Laurel Lee · Last progress November 25, 2025
Creates an FTC-led national public awareness and education program to promote online safety for minors. The program must launch within 180 days of enactment, operate nationwide with federal, state, local, nonprofit, school, industry, and professional partners, and produce annual reports to Congress for 10 years starting one year after enactment. Also replaces prior related provisions of the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act with updated definitions (including "minor" as under 17), a clarified scope of "online safety," and conforming technical edits to the statute.