All Roll Calls
Yes: 110 • No: 56
WyomingHB 432025 General SessionHouse
AN ACT relating to child protection; requiring age verification for visiting websites with material harmful to minors; specifying requirements and exceptions for age verification; specifying remedies, liability and damages; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored By: Martha Lawley (Republican)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Families can recover damages from websites
Beginning July 1, 2025, parents or guardians can sue covered websites on behalf of minors harmed by age-check violations. Successful claims receive $5,000 for each separate age-check failure, plus other damages, court costs, and reasonable lawyer fees. Anyone can sue a covered website that knowingly keeps identifying information after granting access. Successful privacy claims receive damages, court costs, and reasonable lawyer fees; the $5,000 award applies only to age-check claims. These civil lawsuits are the only way to enforce this law, and its Wyoming limits and provider exclusions apply. Giving up the right to sue, or blocking it based on someone's past conduct, is generally invalid. Constitutional protections for contracts limit that rule. Agreements made in violation of the law are unenforceable, but the act does not alter contracts or obligations made before July 1, 2025. Other legal duties and remedies remain unchanged.
Website users gain age-check privacy protections
Beginning July 1, 2025, covered websites cannot keep a person's identifying information after granting access to the material. Third-party providers performing the required age checks must follow the same rule. The protection applies within the law's Wyoming scope and provider exclusions, subject to federal law and constitutional limits.
Age checks protect kids, limit access
Beginning July 1, 2025, covered profit-making websites must check everyone's age before allowing access to obscene images or child pornography. They must block covered minors under 18. Covered minors are Wyoming permanent residents, those who lived there over one year, or those present for 31 consecutive days. Accepted checks include government IDs, credit or debit cards limited to adult cardowners, or other reliable methods. Government IDs include Wyoming or out-of-state licenses or IDs, U.S. passports, military IDs, and tribal IDs. Internet providers and their affiliates or subsidiaries, general search engines, and cloud services are excluded. Federal liability protections remain, and the law must follow the U.S. Constitution, including limits on regulating interstate commerce.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Martha Lawley
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Ocean Andrew
Republican • House
Abby Angelos
Republican • House
Dalton Banks
Republican • House
Marilyn Connolly
Republican • House
Scott Heiner
Republican • House
Christopher Knapp
Republican • House
J.T. Larson
Republican • House
Chip Neiman
Republican • House
Evie Brennan
Republican • Senate
Barry Crago
Republican • Senate
Lynn Hutchings
Republican • Senate
Stacy Jones
Republican • Senate
Jared Olsen
Republican • Senate
Cheri Steinmetz
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 3/4/2025
S 3rd Reading:Passed 28-3-0-0-0
Yes: 28 • No: 3
Senate vote • 2/20/2025
S01 - Judiciary:Recommend Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
Yes: 5 • No: 0
House vote • 1/30/2025
H 3rd Reading:Passed 59-1-2-0-0
Yes: 59 • No: 1
House vote • 1/29/2025
Amendment failed 9-52-1-0-0
Yes: 9 • No: 52
House vote • 1/22/2025
H01 - Judiciary:Recommend Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0
Yes: 9 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Assigned Chapter Number 139
3/13/2025Governor Signed HEA No. 0070
3/13/2025GovernorS President Signed HEA No. 0070
3/5/2025SenateH Speaker Signed HEA No. 0070
3/5/2025HouseAssigned Number HEA No. 0070
3/4/2025S 3rd Reading:Passed 28-3-0-0-0
3/4/2025SenateS 2nd Reading:Passed
3/3/2025SenateS COW:Passed
2/28/2025SenateS Placed on General File
2/20/2025SenateS01 - Judiciary:Recommend Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
2/20/2025SenateS Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary
2/11/2025SenateS Received for Introduction
1/31/2025SenateH 3rd Reading:Passed 59-1-2-0-0
1/30/2025HouseH 2nd Reading:Passed
1/29/2025HouseH COW:Passed
1/28/2025HouseH Placed on General File
1/22/2025HouseH01 - Judiciary:Recommend Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0
1/22/2025HouseH Introduced and Referred to H01 - Judiciary
1/14/2025HouseH Received for Introduction
1/2/2025HouseBill Number Assigned
12/16/2024
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