Governor-Endorsed Kids Privacy Bills Enter Neb. Legislature

Pillen and Hilgers announced support last week for measures requiring age verification for social media and implementing an age-appropriate design code (see 2501130039). Nebraska Sen. Tanya Storer (R) filed the social media bill (LB-383) on Friday (see 2501210026). The legislature referred it Wednesday to the bicameral legislature’s Judiciary Committee.

Also that day, Sen. Carolyn Bosn (R) introduced her design-code bill (LB-504), which would bring to Nebraska a California policy now being litigated. At a news conference last week, Bosn said her legislation is meant to require companies to consider privacy when designing digital services for children.

Bosn’s bill would cover online services that are available in the state, “reasonably likely to be accessed by minors” and process personal data. Covered businesses must have an annual gross revenue of more than $25 million, handle data of at least 50,000 consumers, households or devices, or derive at least 50% of annual revenue for selling or sharing personal data. The measure includes an entity-level exemption for governments and data-level exemptions for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.

The state attorney general would enforce and implement rules for LB-504, which would take effect Jan. 1.