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LouisianaHB 9772026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides relative to minors' use of applications

Sponsored By: Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu IV (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Commerce, Consumer Protection and International AffairsCommerce

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

6 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 4 mixed.

Kids Get Safeguards and App Limits

Developers must check Louisiana users’ age groups and minors’ consent status using app-store data-sharing methods. They must enforce age limits and safety settings, and tell stores about significant app changes. Age or consent requests are required for downloads, purchases, significant changes, and legal compliance. Other requests are limited to new accounts, reasonable suspicion of misuse or account transfer, and accuracy checks once per 12 months. Developers generally must use verified store or operating-system age signals; their own signal is allowed only when known to be more accurate. They cannot sell age-group data, misrepresent consent disclosures, or enforce terms or charge minors without verified parental consent. Developers covered by R.S. 9:2800.29 still must perform that law’s separate app-level age checks.

Parents Control Kids’ Apps and Purchases

Covered app stores must check ages when people in Louisiana create accounts, using reasonably accurate, commercially available methods. Age groups are under 13, 13–15, 16–17, and 18 or older; methods include a real-time check approved by Louisiana’s motor vehicle commissioner. Users under 18 need parent-linked accounts and verified parental consent before downloads, app purchases, pre-loaded app access, or enabling in-app purchases. Consent must be affirmative and follow required disclosures; significant app changes require notice and renewed consent. For minors, checks may combine a parent’s or guardian’s age statement with ordinary account information. Stores must provide authorized developers with age and consent information, report revoked consent, keep compliance records, and encrypt data transfers. Stores must limit data collection and sharing, cannot misrepresent consent disclosures, and cannot enforce terms against minors without verified consent.

Adults Can Manage Family App Ages

Qualifying family apps can use the main account holder’s age range for safety settings and feature access. That adult can also state the age groups of linked profiles or accounts. The app must offer profiles or subaccounts and operate mainly through paid subscriptions or accounts with verified payment methods. It must bar account creation by anyone under 18 and reasonably verify that the main account holder is an adult. Other age-check and parental-consent rules still apply.

Earlier Kids’ App Law Is Repealed

The law repeals Act No. 481 of Louisiana’s 2025 Regular Session and prevents it from taking effect. The earlier act’s provisions do not become binding. The supplied text gives no separate effective date for this repeal.

App Companies Get Limited Liability Defenses

An app store avoids liability under these rules by showing a good-faith effort to comply. A developer avoids liability by showing compliance and can use widely adopted industry standards in good faith for age ratings and content descriptions. These defenses apply only to claims under this law; claims and remedies under other laws remain available. Required user disclosures do not extend beyond age group or parental-consent status. Developers need not collect, keep, identify users from, or link extra data beyond legal needs or ordinary business practices.

App Violations Bring Fines After Notice

Beginning July 1, 2027, the Louisiana Attorney General can sue to enforce these rules. Written notice must identify each alleged violation and its basis at least 45 days before suit. Fixing violations within 45 days after notice, with a written promise they are fixed and will not recur, generally prevents suit. Suit can proceed if violations remain or the same rule is broken again after that statement. Violating stores or developers face fines up to $10,000 per violation; breaking an administrative or court order brings penalties up to $5,000 per violation. The Attorney General sets these amounts and may seek order-related penalties in a civil action; app users do not owe the company fines. Courts must award reasonable attorney fees, court costs, and investigation costs when the Attorney General wins judgment or court-ordered relief. Collected fines and penalties must fund consumer-protection enforcement or education, with no fixed funding amount.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Gerald "Beau" Beaullieu IV

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 145 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/11/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 36 • No: 0

House vote • 4/22/2026

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 94 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 15 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 185.

    5/15/2026House

  2. Effective date: See Act.

    5/15/2026House

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/13/2026Senate

  4. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/13/2026House

  5. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/12/2026House

  6. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/12/2026House

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/11/2026Senate

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/4/2026Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    4/29/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/28/2026Senate

  11. Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs.

    4/27/2026Senate

  12. Called from the calendar.

    4/22/2026House

  13. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/22/2026House

  14. Called from the calendar.

    4/21/2026House

  15. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/21/2026House

  16. Notice given.

    4/21/2026House

  17. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2026.

    4/21/2026House

  18. Read by title, returned to the calendar.

    4/13/2026House

  19. Notice given.

    4/13/2026House

  20. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/21/2026.

    4/13/2026House

  21. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2026.

    4/9/2026House

  22. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/8/2026House

  23. Reported with amendments (15-0).

    4/7/2026House

  24. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.

    3/18/2026House

  25. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

    3/17/2026House

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