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Yes: 120 • No: 3
ArkansasHB19752025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
TO CREATE THE CHILD CONTENT CREATION PROTECTION ACT.
Sponsored By: Tyler Dees (Republican), Zack Gramlich (Republican)
Enacted
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Bill Overview
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5 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Children can request online content removal
Beginning July 1, 2026, platforms must offer an accessible way for featured Arkansas minors to request content deletion. Adults can also request removal if they were featured as minors on or after that date. Requests must include information reasonably needed to identify the person and content. After notice, the covered creator must delete the content or make an available edit removing private identifying details. Editing is available when the person is uniquely identifiable, and the edit must be completed within 72 hours. If the creator fails to act within a reasonable period of no more than 30 days, the platform must review the request. It must take reasonable removal steps unless information is insufficient or inaccurate, or newsworthiness or another public interest outweighs privacy. The featured person can sue over the creator’s failure to act.
Minors gain protection against sexualized profiteering
Beginning July 1, 2026, people cannot financially benefit from knowingly making or publicly sharing visual depictions of minors with sexual intent. The intent must be to sexually gratify someone or cause a sexual response. A minor can sue over a violation, attempt, or conspiracy. A winning minor may receive a court order, actual and punitive damages, attorney’s fees, and litigation costs. Exceptions cover specified government activities, good-faith reporting, legal duties, court documents, and certain platform conduct. Other state-law rights remain available. Liability must remain consistent with federal Section 230 protections as they existed on January 1, 2025.
Young creators keep their own earnings
Beginning July 1, 2026, Arkansas minors ages 13 through 17 can produce, create, and publish their own content. They are entitled to all money earned from that content. Minors making their own content are excluded from the law’s definition of a regulated content creator.
Children get earnings; parents face duties
Beginning July 1, 2026, covered creators must set aside earnings for qualifying minors and keep records. Covered creators are Arkansas parents or legal guardians who make paid image or video content in Arkansas. The earnings rule applies when the creator received at least $15,000 in actual content pay during the previous 12 months. Within that year, at least 30% of their paid content produced in one 30-day period must feature the minor. Featuring includes the minor’s likeness, name, or photograph, measured by time visible or discussed compared with the segment’s length. The segment must reach the platform’s payment-generating view threshold, or earn the creator at least $0.10 per view. The minimum trust deposit equals the segment’s gross earnings multiplied by half the percentage featuring the minor. When several minors qualify, they split that share equally. A bank or trust company must hold the money under the Arkansas Uniform Transfers to Minors Act, solely for the minor. The minor gets access at 18 or upon court-ordered emancipation. Creators must keep identity and age documents, post and time totals, pay records, and trust deposits until the minor turns 21. They must notify the minor about the records and allow review. A minor can sue over missing records; a winning minor may receive a court order, damages, and legal costs.
Platforms must strengthen protections for minors
Beginning July 1, 2026, covered social media platforms must create and use a written, risk-based safety plan. It must address risks from monetizing the intentional sexualization of known minors engaged in content creation and undergo regular reassessment. Optional steps include content and payment rules, feature limits, automated enforcement, safer recommendations, and ongoing quality checks. Platforms must publicly explain policies, settings, risks, and ways to protect featured minors in language adults and minors understand. Those materials must draw on research and outside expertise and explain that Arkansas law may impose requirements on creators.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Tyler Dees
Republican • Senate
Zack Gramlich
Republican • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 4/16/2025
Senate Vote - Wednesday, April 16, 2025 11:34:12 AM
Yes: 31 • No: 2 • Other: 1
House vote • 4/10/2025
House Vote - Thursday, April 10, 2025 4:09:37 PM
Yes: 89 • No: 1
Actions Timeline
Notification that HB1975 is now Act 982
4/22/2025HouseCorrectly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
4/16/2025HouseTO BE ENROLLED
4/16/2025HouseReturned from the Senate as passed.
4/16/2025HouseReturned to the House as passed.
4/16/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
4/16/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
4/14/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE
4/10/2025SenateReceived from the House.
4/10/2025SenateRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
4/10/2025HouseREPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
4/9/2025HouseAmendment No. 1 & 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
4/9/2025HousePlaced on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
4/9/2025HouseReturned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 & 2
4/8/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE
4/2/2025HouseFiled
4/2/2025House
Bill Text
HB1975 - Introduced
4/2/2025
Act Version
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