# 119-s-3540: LISTOS Act of 2025

119-s-3540, LISTOS Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM] (D-NM); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-10).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-3540
- Congress: 119
- Title: LISTOS Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-12-17
- Sponsor: Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM] (D-NM)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-10

## Summary

**The LISTOS Act would force big online platforms to provide consistent, transparent, and **language-inclusive content moderation**.** It targets gaps in non-English enforcement and would give the Federal Trade Commission new rulemaking and enforcement duties. - People who use non-English languages would see platforms required to apply detection, suppression, and removal processes that are reasonably consistent across languages the platforms monetize. The bill includes exceptions for end-to-end encrypted messaging and for languages used by fewer than 100,000 U.S. users in most months. - Platform operators with at least 10 million monthly U.S. users would have to publish an annual machine-readable report to the FTC. Reports must detail moderation staffing by country and language, training and mental health supports, automated detection performance, monetization by language, takedown counts, and average response times. - The Federal Trade Commission would begin rulemaking within 120 days to implement enforcement and reporting requirements and the bill would create an Advisory Group on Language-Sensitive Technologies within 360 days to publish best practices. State attorneys general could bring civil actions under defined conditions and the FTC may treat violations as unfair or deceptive acts.

## Cosponsors (3)

- Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] (D-OR), 2025-12-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] (D-CA), 2025-12-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] (D-HI), 2025-12-17T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Federal enforcement and state lawsuits: benefit, high. If enacted, the FTC would treat violations of the bill's moderation, reporting, and access rules as unfair or deceptive practices and could use its full FTC Act powers and penalties to enforce them. State attorneys general could also sue on behalf of residents for violations, seek injunctions, comp…
- Platform language and moderation rules: benefit, high. If enacted, covered platforms would have to enforce content rules reasonably consistently for every language they monetize. Platforms would also file a public, machine-readable annual report listing moderation staffing by region and language, how automated systems perform across languages, which la…
- Large online platforms covered: benefit, high. If enacted, the bill would apply only to online sites and apps that let users post or view third-party content and that have at least 10,000,000 monthly active U.S. users for 3 or more of the past 12 months. That numeric threshold would decide which companies must follow the bill's moderation, repo…

## Related bills

- 119-s-5066: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026
- 119-s-2819: Head Start for America's Children Act
- 119-s-4504: Full-Service Community School Expansion Act of 2026
- 119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
- 119-s-2823: FAMILY Act
- 119-s-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act

## Sources
- [119-s-3540 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3540)

## Related
- [119-s-5066: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5066)
- [119-s-2819: Head Start for America's Children Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2819)
- [119-s-4504: Full-Service Community School Expansion Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4504)
- [119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3990)
- [119-s-2823: FAMILY Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2823)
- [119-s-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-51)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3540 (as of 2026-09-10).