H.R. 2657 · In committee · Science, Technology, Communications

Sammy’s Law

Sponsor: Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)

What it does

• Requires large social media platforms to permit registered safety-software providers to monitor and manage children under 17's interactions, content, and account settings.
• Requires safety-software providers to register with the Federal Trade Commission, undergo security review, and demonstrate United States residency and child-safety-only data usage.
• Permits safety-software providers to disclose a child's user data to the child's parent or guardian if the child is experiencing or at foreseeable risk of suicide, eating disorders, sexual abuse, harassment, or academic dishonesty.
• Defines large social media platforms as services with more than 100 million monthly global active users or more than $1 billion in gross annual revenue that enable children to share content with users known solely through the platform.

Official summary

Sammy’s Law This bill requires large social media platforms to permit certain providers of safety software to monitor and manage the activity of children under the age of 17 on such platforms. Specifically, large social media platforms must make available a mechanism by which a child or their parent or guardian may permit a provider of safety software to (1) manage the child’s interactions, content, and account settings on the platform; and (2) regularly access the child’s user data. A software provider may only disclose a child’s data under limited circumstances, including to the child’s parent or guardian if the child is experiencing or is at foreseeable risk of experiencing specified harms. Such harms include suicide, eating disorders, sexual abuse, harassment, and academic dishonesty. The provider may only share data necessary for a reasonable parent or caregiver to understand that the child is experiencing or is at risk of harm. To participate, a software provider must register with the Federal Trade Commission, undergo a security review, and demonstrate that, among other requirements, the provider is based in the United States and will use a child's data solely to protect…

Latest action

Dec 11, 2025: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.

Committee: House Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee