A 4664 New Jersey General Assembly · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Prohibits social media platforms from promoting certain practices or features of eating disorders to child users.

This bill prohibits social media platforms from designing, promoting, or using features that could cause children under 18 to develop eating disorders, including promoting diet products. It requires platforms to conduct quarterly internal audits and annual third-party audits to identify harmful features, with corrective action required within 30 days if issues are found. Platforms with under $100 million in annual revenue, gaming-focused services, or those complying with audit requirements are exempt from penalties. Violations could result in civil penalties of up to $250,000 per violation. The bill specifically targets platform algorithms and features, not user-generated content.
Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2024
Committee Review
Jan 2026
General Assembly Passage
Dec 2024
Senate Passage
Jan 2026
Governor
Introduced Jun 26, 2024 Last action Jan 12, 2026
Floor votes · General Assembly Dec 19, 2024

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
9
Key actions
4
Committee
5
Jan 12, 2026
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (Passed Both Houses) (27-11)
upper
Jan 8, 2026
Upper · Passed
Reported out of Senate Committee, 2nd Reading
upper
Jan 6, 2026
Committee
Transferred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee
upper
Jan 14, 2025
Committee
Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee
upper
Dec 19, 2024
Lower · Passed
Passed Assembly (46-24-2)
lower
Dec 16, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Assembly Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading
lower
Sep 19, 2024
Committee
Reported and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee
lower
Jun 26, 2024
Introduced
Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
lower
4 primary · 4 co-sponsors

Sponsors