A 6549 New York Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Establishes the "stop online predators act"

Summary

Establishes the "stop online predators act"; requires operators of covered platforms to conduct age verification to determine whether a user is a covered minor; requires operators of covered platforms to utilize certain default privacy settings for covered minors; requires operators of covered platforms to require parental approval of certain activity related to a covered minor's covered platform account.

Issues: ✓ Technology

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Mar 6, 2025 Last action Jan 12, 2026

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What changed between versions

A6549 → A6549A · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was amended to rename the legislation from the 'New York children's online safety act' to the 'stop online predators act' and renumber the new article from 45-A to 45-B. Substantive changes include expanding the list of sponsors, adding new definitions for terms like 'adult,' 'false negative,' and 'syncing,' and updating privacy requirements to explicitly address age verification accuracy and prevent method circumvention.

Scope change

The bill's scope was technically adjusted by renumbering the new article from 45-A to 45-B to accommodate future legislation, while the core subject matter remains focused on online safety for minors.

SCOPE

The bill title and article number were changed to 'stop online predators act' and Article 45-B, respectively.

DEFINITION

New definitions were added for 'adult,' 'false negative,' 'false positive,' 'method circumvention,' 'minor,' 'media,' 'operator,' 'parent,' 'syncing,' and 'user' to clarify terms used in the law.

REQUIREMENT

Privacy requirements were updated to mandate that age verification methods meet accuracy minimums to reduce false positives and negatives and to detect attempts to bypass age checks.

New provisions were added to allow platforms to send initial connection requests with private messages to minors, provided the connection itself requires parental approval.

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Committee

Amendments

Jan 12, 2026

Lower · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 6549A

lower

Jan 12, 2026

Lower · Passed

AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CODES

lower

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO CODES

lower

May 27, 2025

Committee

REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES

lower

Mar 6, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION

lower

1 primary · 41 co-sponsors