Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB1453: Social Media Platforms - Vloggers and Video Content Featuring Minors (Child Influencers Protection Act)
Status: Introduced, March 3, 2025
Requiring a vlogger who creates video content that is posted on a social media platform and features a certain minor child to compensate the child under certain circumstances; establishing requirements on social media platforms relating to deleting video content featuring minor children; applying certain requirements related to the labor of minors to children compensated by vloggers; etc.
What the bill says
A bill ENTITLED AN ACT concerning Social Media Platforms - Vloggers and Video Content Featuring Minors (Child Influencers Protection Act) FOR the purpose of requiring a vlogger who creates video content that is posted on a social media platform and features a certain minor child to compensate the child under certain circumstances; establishing requirements on social media platforms relating to deleting video content featuring minor children; applying certain requirements related to the labor of minors to children compensated by vloggers…
From the introduced text, February 7, 2025:
A BILL ENTITLED AN ACT concerning Social Media Platforms - Vloggers and Video Content Featuring Minors (Child Influencers Protection Act) FOR the purpose of requiring a vlogger who creates video content that is posted on a social media platform and features a certain minor child to compensate the child under certain circumstances; establishing requirements on social media platforms relating to deleting video content featuring minor children; applying certain requirements related to the labor of minors to children compensated by vloggers; and generally relating to minors featured in social media content. BY adding to Article - Business Regulation Section 19-1001 through 19-1004 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 10. Social Media Vloggers" Annotated Code of Maryland (2024 Replacement Volume) BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Labor and Employment Section 3-203(4) Annotated Code of Maryland (2016 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: Article - Business Regulation SUBTITLE 10. SOCIAL MEDIA VLOGGERS. EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW. [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from exist in g l aw . *hb1453* HOUSE BILL 1453 19-1001. (A) IN THIS SUBTITLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS INDICATED. (B) "CHILD" MEANS, WITH RESPECT TO A VLOGGER, A MINOR FOR WHOM THE VLOGGER OR, …