KIDS Act
Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act (H.R.7757)
Omnibus children's internet safety legislation incorporating the SAFE BOTs Act (AI chatbot safeguards) and AWARE Act (AI education resources). Requires AI chatbot operators to disclose AI status to minors, provide crisis hotline information, and implement break prompts.
Jurisdiction
United States
Enacted
Pending
Effective
TBD
Enforcement
Federal Trade Commission
Passed the House 267-117 on June 29, 2026. Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on July 13, 2026.
Congress.govWhy It Matters
Most advanced federal AI child safety bill, incorporating SAFE BOTs Act requirements into a broader children's internet safety framework. Contains state preemption language that has drawn criticism from advocates preferring stronger state-level protections.
Recent Developments
Referred to Senate Commerce on July 13, 2026. The House-passed text is an omnibus carrying COPPA 2.0, a Title IV on artificial intelligence chatbots, and the AWARE Act. The chatbot title requires providers to disclose clearly and conspicuously that a covered user is interacting with an artificial intelligence system rather than a natural person (Sec. 404), bars providers from stating that a chatbot is a licensed professional unless true (Sec. 403), and requires reasonable policies, practices and procedures (Sec. 405), with FTC enforcement. The AWARE Act directs the FTC to develop educational resources on safe chatbot use within one year, including suicide and crisis intervention hotline resources, and directs HHS and NIH to conduct a four-year longitudinal study of chatbot risks and benefits for minors mental health covering loneliness, anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation. An earlier record that the bill also folded in the Kids Online Safety Act was based on secondary reporting and is not borne out by the enrolled House text; KOSA is proceeding separately as S. 1748.
At a Glance
Applies to
Harms addressed
Who Must Comply
- AI chatbot providers
- Online platforms with AI chatbot features serving minors
Obligations fall on:
Safety Provisions
- AI chatbots must disclose to minors that they are interacting with AI
- Cannot falsely claim to be licensed professionals (doctors, therapists)
- Crisis hotline information required when minor raises suicide or self-harm
- Mandatory break prompts after extended chatbot sessions
- Reasonable policies to prevent minors from accessing sexual content
- FTC to develop educational resources on safe AI chatbot use by minors (AWARE Act component)
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Focus Areas
Cite This
APA
United States. (n.d.). Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act (H.R.7757).
Related Regulations
KOSA
Would establish duty of care for platforms regarding minor safety. Passed full Senate 91-3 in July 2024; passed Senate Commerce Committee multiple times (2022, 2023). Not yet enacted.
CHATBOT Act (S.4407)
Federal bill requiring operators of public-facing AI chatbots to offer family accounts with parental controls for children, obtain verifiable parental consent before teens create accounts, and refrain from using known minors' personal data for targeted advertising.
Brazil ECA Digital
Comprehensive child digital safety law applying to any IT product or service directed at or likely to be accessed by minors in Brazil, with extraterritorial reach.
GA AI Chatbot Child Safety
Adds O.C.G.A. section 39-5-6, requiring operators of AI companion chatbots to disclose the chatbot is not a natural person, to adopt a protocol for detecting and responding to expressions of severe harm, to restrict specified manipulative and sexualised interactions with minors, and to perform age assurance before providing access to sexually explicit synthetic content.
ID Conversational AI Safety
Establishes safety requirements for public-facing conversational AI, including crisis service referrals for suicidal ideation, AI disclosure obligations, and enhanced protections for minors including anti-gamification and content safeguards.
OR SB 1546
Requires AI chatbot operators to implement evidence-based suicide and self-harm detection protocols, disclose AI nature to users, provide crisis referrals to 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, and apply additional protections for minors including prohibiting deceptive personification.
Last updated July 26, 2026. Verify against primary sources before relying on this information.