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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1438: Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 1438 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on February 26, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors. Primary sponsor: Erin Grall (Republican). Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Commerce and Tourism.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Online Access to Materials Harmful to Minors; Requiring a developer to, beginning on a specified date, make specific determinations about covered applications, provide notice to application stores about such applications, and provide certain features for parents to protect a user that is a child; requiring a covered manufacturer to, beginning on a specified date, take certain steps to determine specified information about the user, provide certain notices, and provide developers of covered applications with a specified means to verify the age of a user; providing requirements for devices sold before a specified date; providing construction, etc.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Erin GrallPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate29

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Commerce and Tourism
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/25/25, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
  4. On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/17/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
  5. Introduced
  6. Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Judiciary; Rules
  7. Filed

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source