# 119-s-1829: STOP CSAM Act of 2025

119-s-1829, STOP CSAM Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO] (R-MO); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-17).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1829
- Congress: 119
- Title: STOP CSAM Act of 2025
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-05-21
- Sponsor: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO] (R-MO)
- Cosponsors: 29
- Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-17

## Summary

**Strengthened protections and enforcement against online child sexual exploitation.** The bill tightens court privacy for child victims, forces online services to search for and report suspected abuse, and creates new civil and criminal rules for platforms. - Expands who counts as a covered person and presumes personal, medical, educational, and juvenile records are protected. It requires recorded depositions, guardian ad litem input, and sets a restitution rule for production cases at $3,000 or 10% of losses when smaller. - Requires providers to report possible offenses to the CyberTipline as soon as reasonably possible and no later than 60 days after knowledge and to conduct affirmative searching and preservation. Large platforms with high user volumes must publish annual safety reports and face civil and criminal penalties for failures. - Creates a trustee mechanism to hold and disburse restitution for vulnerable victims. It adds a private right of action against platforms with liquidated damages of $300,000 and allows injunctive relief and punitive damages. *Authorizes $25.0 million per year for court implementation and $15.0 million per year for trustee administration, increasing federal spending.*

## Cosponsors (29)

- Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] (D-IL), 2025-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] (D-MN), 2025-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] (R-IA), 2025-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ] (D-AZ), 2025-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL] (R-AL), 2025-06-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Moody, Ashley [R-FL] (R-FL), 2025-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS] (R-MS), 2025-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] (D-CT), 2025-06-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] (R-LA), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ] (D-AZ), 2025-09-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] (D-NH), 2025-09-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] (R-OK), 2026-03-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] (D-NV), 2026-05-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Justice, James C. [R-WV] (R-WV), 2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] (R-NC), 2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA] (D-PA), 2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] (R-TN), 2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] (R-ID), 2026-06-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] (R-AR), 2026-06-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] (R-ME), 2026-06-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] (D-DE), 2026-06-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM] (D-NM), 2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] (I-ME), 2026-07-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA] (D-CA), 2026-07-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Armstrong, Alan [R-OK] (R-OK), 2026-07-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS] (R-KS), 2026-07-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] (R-WV), 2026-07-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] (D-RI), 2026-07-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL] (D-IL), 2026-09-15T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Mandatory restitution and trustee program: benefit, high. This bill would require courts to order restitution for child‑pornography production or trafficking. For each victim, restitution would be $3,000, or 10% of the victim's full losses if those losses are under $3,000. Courts could appoint trustees or fiduciaries to hold and disburse restitution for c…
- Stronger court privacy for child victims: benefit, medium. This bill would define covered persons as people who were under 18 when an abuse or exploitation offense happened and would give courts a rebuttable presumption that their identifying, medical, and school records stay private. A party asking to make that information public would have to meet a stri…
- New online reporting and liability rules: mixed, high. This bill would require online providers to report suspected child sexual exploitation to the NCMEC CyberTipline as soon as possible and no later than 60 days after actual knowledge. Reports would need names, emails, IP addresses, URLs, technical hashes, copies of public material, age estimates, pr…

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## Sources
- [119-s-1829 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1829)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1829 (as of 2026-09-17).