# Connecticut SB 01295: AN ACT CONCERNING BROADBAND INTERNET, GAMING, SOCIAL MEDIA, ONLINE SERVICES AND CONSUMER CONTRACTS. Connecticut SB 01295, AN ACT CONCERNING BROADBAND INTERNET, GAMING, SOCIAL MEDIA, ONLINE SERVICES AND CONSUMER CONTRACTS., is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by General Law Committee; status signed, last action 2025-06-24 (Signed by the Governor); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-SB01295-2025 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Connecticut SB 01295 - State: Connecticut - Session: 2025 Regular Session - Title: AN ACT CONCERNING BROADBAND INTERNET, GAMING, SOCIAL MEDIA, ONLINE SERVICES AND CONSUMER CONTRACTS. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-02-13 - Last action: 2025-06-24, Signed by the Governor - Sponsor: General Law Committee - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: general law - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 4 (214 yes, 18 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 27 ## Summary To (1) require the owner of a social media platform to incorporate an online safety center into, and establish a cyberbullying policy for, the owner's social media platform, (2) redefine "heightened risk of harm to minors" to include processing minors' personal data in a manner that presents any reasonably foreseeable risk of harm to minors' physical or mental health, and (3) require the controller of an online service, product or feature that is offered to minors to (A) include a default setting in such service, product or feature to prevent adults from sending unsolicited communications to minors, (B) not use any system design feature to significantly increase, sustain or extend minors' use of such service, product or feature, and (C) disclose to the Attorney General a plan established and implemented to mitigate or eliminate any heightened risk of harm to minors. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Survivors can block connected-car access: benefit, high. Beginning July 1, 2026, covered connected-car providers must act on qualifying adult survivors' access requests within two business days. Requests must identify the vehicle identification number and abuser and include required ownership, exclusive-possession, or court-order proof. Providers must ta… - Capped broadband bills for qualifying households: benefit, medium. Connecticut’s energy and environmental agency must establish the Net Equality Program by September 30, 2026. Households qualify within a qualified provider’s Connecticut service area when a resident receives SNAP or other provider-recognized public assistance. Beginning October 1, 2026, qualified p… - Car buyers see optional charges upfront: benefit, medium. Beginning October 1, 2025, Connecticut dealers must include imposed optional add-on charges in a vehicle's quoted selling price. Each charge must appear separately and be labeled optional. Dealers cannot preprint optional add-on amounts on orders or invoices before discussing them with the buyer. D… - Companies must assess profiling risks for minors: benefit, medium. Beginning July 1, 2026, covered companies must assess online services that profile users they know, or willfully disregard, are minors. Assessments must cover how profiling works, data inputs and outputs, risks, transparency, and safeguards after launch. Companies must review and retain assessments… - Minimum speeds for affordable household broadband: benefit, medium. Net Equality broadband must deliver at least 100 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2027. Beginning October 1, 2027, minimum speeds are 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload. Service speeds and response times must support distance learning and telehealth. Beg… - Safer online settings for kids: benefit, medium. Beginning July 1, 2026, covered services face safeguards when they know, or willfully disregard, that users are minors. They cannot use design features that significantly increase or extend minors' use; education-directed services are excluded from that rule. Precise location collection must be str… - Clearer privacy notices and opt-outs: benefit, low. Privacy notices must explain requests and appeals, data sales, targeted ads, contact options, and data use for large language model training. They must show their update month and year and meet prominent-display, language, and disability-access rules. Companies must notify affected consumers about… - Clearer subscription terms and consent records: benefit, low. Beginning October 1, 2025, covered subscription and ongoing-service agreements must clearly explain renewal terms. The rules cover Connecticut consumer agreements entered into or amended on or after October 1, 2023. Written or electronic disclosures must stand out and be retainable; spoken disclosu… - More businesses must protect consumer data: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2026, broader coverage applies to businesses operating in Connecticut or targeting its residents. A business qualifies if it handled at least 35,000 consumers' personal data during the prior calendar year. Handling consumers' sensitive data or offering their personal data for sale… - Privacy protections cover nervous system data: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2026, Connecticut’s privacy law treats neural data as sensitive personal data. This means information generated by measuring activity in a person’s central nervous system. Covered companies must apply the law’s sensitive-data protections to this information. - Risk reviews for major automated decisions: benefit, low. Effective July 1, 2026, covered companies must assess profiling used for decisions with legal or similarly major effects on consumers. This requirement covers processing activities created or generated on or after August 1, 2026. Reviews must address purpose, data, performance, risks, transparency,… - Social media users get safety resources: benefit, low. The requirements take effect July 1, 2026, with platform safety centers required by October 1, 2026. Centers must give Connecticut users cyberbullying-prevention resources, mental-health service links, behavioral-health education, and instructions for reporting harmful behavior. They must also expl… - Sports bettors gain wager cancellation safeguards: benefit, low. Effective July 1, 2025, operators need written state approval to cancel sports wagers outside the regular cancellation rules. They must provide additional information on request and log covered wager changes and cancellations, including reasons, market types, events, and dates. Logs must identify a… - Stronger safeguards for sensitive personal data: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2026, covered companies must limit data collection, secure it, and obtain consent for incompatible new uses. Sensitive-data use requires consent and reasonable necessity; selling sensitive data also requires consent. Expanded protections cover specified health, disability, treatme… - Some organizations escape state privacy requirements: cost, low. Beginning July 1, 2026, specified political committees, insurance entities, financial firms, and financial information are exempt from state privacy requirements. Banks, credit unions, and related firms qualify only with listed financial activities, regulatory oversight, and a personal-data complia… - Lottery licensees face tighter oversight, penalties: cost, low. Beginning October 1, 2025, the consumer protection commissioner can deny, condition, suspend, revoke, or refuse renewal of lottery licenses for good cause after a hearing. Grounds include rule violations, fraud, materially false information, specified convictions or judgments, insolvency, and incom… - Stronger limits on children's data use: mixed, medium. Beginning July 1, 2026, general consent protections for targeted ads and data sales extend to ages 13–17, adding ages 16–17. Separate online-service rules generally bar these uses for minors, except processing reasonably needed to provide the service. Those rules also limit unrelated uses and reten… - Consumers can question automated decisions: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2026, consumers can access conclusions drawn from their data and learn about covered automated decision-making. They can question important decisions, ask why they happened, and review the data used. Housing decisions also carry correction and reevaluation rights, subject to feasi… - Data bias checks get narrow exceptions: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2026, companies cannot process personal data in ways that violate state or federal discrimination laws. Their anti-bias testing and response can matter in related claims or defenses. The law permits necessary internal data use solely to detect or correct bias in important automate… - Sports bettors get refunds and corrections: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, operators can void covered wagers without prior state approval after cancellations, venue changes, or delays over 24 hours. Covered changes also include absent players or acts and changes to tournament participation or event format. Operators must promptly return voided fund… - Vehicle safety requests carry legal limits: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2026, covered connected-vehicle providers must post website instructions for survivors seeking limits on another person’s access. Survivors who submit requests must reasonably notify providers about ownership or possession changes that materially affect the need for action. Provid… - Lottery workers gain endorsements, reporting duties: mixed, low. Beginning October 1, 2025, covered lottery workers face new licensing and reporting rules. Class III and IV applicants, and corporation employees holding those licenses on January 1, 2026, must disclose their gaming work. The commissioner can approve endorsements for lottery internet games or retai… - Online services must assess children's risks: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2026, services must assess data uses and foreseeable harm when they know or willfully disregard that users are minors. The former limit to offerings made on or after October 1, 2024, no longer applies. Covered risks include violence, sexual abuse or exploitation, material injury o… - Privacy compliance help but confidential reviews: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2026, data processors must help companies respond to consumer privacy requests when possible. They must also supply available information needed for data protection and impact assessments. Required help depends on the processing involved and information available. Assessments and… - Lottery delivery expands with security requirements: mixed, low. Beginning October 1, 2025, the Connecticut Lottery Corporation can use businesses without vendor licenses to deliver tickets to retailers. The consumer protection department must approve a detailed plan before a delivery business is used. Corporation employees must pack tickets on-site under video… - Broadband contract preferences and legal limits: mixed, low. Beginning January 31, 2027, state agencies must favor qualified Net Equality providers when buying broadband, all other factors equal. The program’s specified rules cannot impair contracts already in existence on October 1, 2026. A program violation does not count as an unfair or deceptive trade pr… - Some contractor ads can link registration: mixed, low. Beginning October 1, 2025, qualifying home-improvement businesses can provide a phone number or website instead of registration details in some ads. The business must be listed on a U.S. stock exchange. At least 30% of its advertising spending must fund campaigns aimed concurrently at audiences in… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: General Law Committee ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-03-21 | House | House Roll Call Vote 339 AS AMENDED | pass | 127 | 15 | | | 2025-03-21 | Senate | Senate Roll Call Vote 353 | pass | 33 | 2 | | | 2025-03-21 | Senate | Senate Roll Call Vote 352 | pass | 33 | 1 | | | 2025-03-21 | Senate | GL Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable Substitute) | pass | 21 | 0 | | ## Actions (22) - 2025-06-24: Signed by the Governor (legislature) - 2025-06-23: Transmitted by Secretary of the State to Governor (legislature) - 2025-06-23: Transmitted to the Secretary of State (legislature) - 2025-06-11: Public Act 25-113 (legislature) - 2025-06-03: In Concurrence (legislature) - 2025-06-03: House Passed as Amended by Senate Amendment Schedule A (House) - 2025-06-03: House Adopted Senate Amendment Schedule A (House) - 2025-06-03: Rules Suspended (legislature) - 2025-06-03: House Calendar Number 686 (House) - 2025-06-03: Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House (House) - 2025-06-03: Transmitted Pursuant To Joint Rule 17 (legislature) - 2025-06-03: Senate Passed as Amended by Senate Amendment Schedule A (Senate) - 2025-06-03: Senate Adopted Senate Amendment Schedule A 10466 (Senate) - 2025-04-08: File Number 576 (legislature) - 2025-04-08: Senate Calendar Number 319 (Senate) - 2025-04-08: Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate (Senate) - 2025-04-08: Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office (legislature) - 2025-04-02: Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/07/25 5:00 PM (legislature) - 2025-03-24: Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office (legislature) - 2025-03-21: Joint Favorable Substitute (legislature) - 2025-02-14: Public Hearing 02/19 (legislature) - 2025-02-13: Referred to Joint Committee on General Law (legislature) ## Bill text - Public Act No. 25-113, 2025-06-03: [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00113-R00SB-01295-PA.PDF) - File No. 576, 2025-04-08: [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025SB-01295-R000576-FC.PDF) - GL Joint Favorable Substitute, 2025-03-21: [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01295-R01-SB.PDF) - Raised Bill, 2025-02-13: [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01295-R00-SB.PDF) - Bill Analysis For File Copy 576: [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/BA/PDF/2025SB-01295-R000576-BA.PDF) - Bill Analysis for SB-1295, as amended by Senate "A": [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/BA/PDF/2025SB-01295-R01-BA.PDF) - Fiscal Note For File Copy 576: [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FN/PDF/2025SB-01295-R000576-FN.PDF) - Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10405 (See Fiscal Note Details): [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/fna/pdf/2025SB-01295-R00LCO10405-FNA.pdf) - Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10466 (See Fiscal Note Details): [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/fna/pdf/2025SB-01295-R00LCO10466-FNA.PDF) - Fiscal Note for SB-1295, As Amended by Senate "A" (LCO 10466): [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FN/PDF/2025SB-01295-R01-FN.PDF) - GL Joint Fav. Rpt: [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/JFR/S/PDF/2025SB-01295-R00GL-JFR.PDF) - GL Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable Substitute): [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TS/S/PDF/2025SB-01295-R00GL-CV79-TS.PDF) - House Roll Call Vote 339 AS AMENDED: [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/VOTE/H/PDF/2025HV-00339-R00SB01295-HV.PDF) - Senate LCO Amendment #10405 (D): [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/lcoamd/pdf/2025LCO10405-R00-AMD.pdf) - Senate Roll Call Vote 352: [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/VOTE/S/PDF/2025SV-00352-R00SB01295-SV.PDF) - Senate Roll Call Vote 353: [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/VOTE/S/PDF/2025SV-00353-R00SB01295-SV.PDF) - Senate Schedule A LCO# 10466 (D): [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/amd/S/pdf/2025SB-01295-R00SA-AMD.pdf) - Summary for Public Act No. 25-113: [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/SUM/PDF/2025SUM00113-R02SB-01295-SUM.PDF) ## Related bills - HB 05013: AN ACT ADDING CERTAIN PLANTS TO THE INVASIVE PLANTS LIST. (signed) - SB 01558: AN ACT CONCERNING INCOME TAXES IMPOSED BY OTHER JURISDICTIONS ON RESIDENTS OF THE STATE. (signed) - SB 01396: AN ACT CONCERNING EARNED BUT UNPAID WAGE OR SALARY INCOME ADVANCES. (signed) - SB 01187: AN ACT CONCERNING FORECLOSURE, ASSIGNMENT AND OTHER ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS FOR UNPAID SEWER ASSESSMENTS AND OTHER FEES AND CHARGES. (signed) - HB 07236: AN ACT CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS. (signed) - HB 07192: AN ACT IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BIPARTISAN DRUG TASK FORCE. (signed) ## Sources - [Public Act No. 25-113 (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00113-R00SB-01295-PA.PDF) - [File No. 576 (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025SB-01295-R000576-FC.PDF) - [GL Joint Favorable Substitute (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01295-R01-SB.PDF) - [Raised Bill (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01295-R00-SB.PDF) - [Bill Analysis For File Copy 576 (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/BA/PDF/2025SB-01295-R000576-BA.PDF) - [Bill Analysis for SB-1295, as amended by Senate "A" (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/BA/PDF/2025SB-01295-R01-BA.PDF) - [Fiscal Note For File Copy 576 (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FN/PDF/2025SB-01295-R000576-FN.PDF) - [Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10405 (See Fiscal Note Details) (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/fna/pdf/2025SB-01295-R00LCO10405-FNA.pdf) - [Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10466 (See Fiscal Note Details) (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/fna/pdf/2025SB-01295-R00LCO10466-FNA.PDF) - [Fiscal Note for SB-1295, As Amended by Senate "A" (LCO 10466) (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FN/PDF/2025SB-01295-R01-FN.PDF) - [GL Joint Fav. Rpt (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/JFR/S/PDF/2025SB-01295-R00GL-JFR.PDF) - [GL Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable Substitute) (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TS/S/PDF/2025SB-01295-R00GL-CV79-TS.PDF) - [House Roll Call Vote 339 AS AMENDED (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/VOTE/H/PDF/2025HV-00339-R00SB01295-HV.PDF) - [Senate LCO Amendment #10405 (D) (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/lcoamd/pdf/2025LCO10405-R00-AMD.pdf) - [Senate Roll Call Vote 352 (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/VOTE/S/PDF/2025SV-00352-R00SB01295-SV.PDF) - [Senate Roll Call Vote 353 (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/VOTE/S/PDF/2025SV-00353-R00SB01295-SV.PDF) - [Senate Schedule A LCO# 10466 (D) (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/amd/S/pdf/2025SB-01295-R00SA-AMD.pdf) - [Summary for Public Act No. 25-113 (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/SUM/PDF/2025SUM00113-R02SB-01295-SUM.PDF) ## Related - [HB 05013: AN ACT ADDING CERTAIN PLANTS TO THE INVASIVE PLANTS LIST.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-HB05013-2025) - [SB 01558: AN ACT CONCERNING INCOME TAXES IMPOSED BY OTHER JURISDICTIONS ON RESIDENTS OF T…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-SB01558-2025) - [SB 01396: AN ACT CONCERNING EARNED BUT UNPAID WAGE OR SALARY INCOME ADVANCES.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-SB01396-2025) - [SB 01187: AN ACT CONCERNING FORECLOSURE, ASSIGNMENT AND OTHER ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS FOR UNP…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-SB01187-2025) - [HB 07236: AN ACT CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-HB07236-2025) - [HB 07192: AN ACT IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BIPARTISAN DRUG TASK FORCE.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-HB07192-2025) - [Connecticut bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/connecticut/bills) - [Connecticut state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/connecticut) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-SB01295-2025 (as of 2026-10-17).