Termination of child account

Section effective January 1, 2027. (A) A covered social media platform has a continuing obligation to terminate an account should it conclude or obtain information from which it reasonably should conclude pursuant to its obligations pursuant to Section 39-5-920 that the account holder is a child unless verifiable parental consent has been obtained for such account. (B) A covered social media platform shall terminate an account of a child within no more than seven days after receipt of a request for termination from the account holder. (C) A covered social media platform shall terminate the account of a child within no more than fourteen days after receipt of a request for termination from a parent of the child. Upon receipt of such a request, the covered social media platform shall verify that the requesting party is a parent of the account holder by whatever means of verification the covered social media platform uses for purposes of ascertaining the validity of verifiable parental consent. (D) A covered social media platform shall provide clear, simple, and easy-to-locate means for the parent of any child to request termination of any account of a child.