Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act"; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors to perform reasonable age-verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material; specifies that a violation of age-verification or data retention requirements is a Class C felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 47.

This enacted law, known as the Protect Tennessee Minors Act, requires websites in Tennessee that host at least 10% of content harmful to minors to verify the age of their visitors. The bill mandates that site owners use reasonable methods, such as checking government IDs or analyzing transactional data, to confirm users are at least 18 years old before they can access the restricted material. Violations of these age-verification rules or failure to properly retain anonymized data records are classified as Class C felonies. The law specifically defines harmful content as sexually explicit material lacking serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.