Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to override the Governor's veto and pass a bill that establishes minor social media protections in Colorado.

Highlights:

• Establishes minor social media protections that require large social media companies used by individuals in Colorado to take down flagged accounts if they're determined to be selling guns or drugs, or if the accounts are engaged in the sex trafficking or sexual exploitation of minors (Sec. 1-3).

• Requires social media companies to set up staffed hotlines for communicating with law enforcement and respond to investigation requests within 72 hours (Sec. 1-3).

• Requires social media companies to publish annual reports on how many minors use their platforms, how often and for how long, and how much they interact with content that violates the company’s policies (Sec. 1-3).

• Establishes certain requirements for social media companies and social media platforms in order to protect users, including (Sec. 1-3):

• relocates, with amendments, certain language requiring a social media platform to include a function that provides minor users information about their engagement in social media, which language was enacted in 2024 by House Bill 24-1136;

• Requires a social media company to publish policies for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company (published policies) and establishes mandatory contents for the published policies;

• Requires a social media company to submit to the department of law an annual report that includes, for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company, information concerning the published policies and violations of the published policies;

• Requires a social media company to annually make publicly available a report that includes, for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company, certain data concerning how minor users used the social media platform;

• Requires a social media company, upon the notification of a user's alleged violation of the published policies or of state or federal law, to determine within 72 hours whether the violation occurred and, if so, to remove the user from the applicable social media platform within 24 hours after the determination is made;

• Requires a social media platform with at least one million users to provide a streamlined process to allow Colorado law enforcement agencies to contact the social media company that operates the social media platform and, under certain conditions, to comply with a search warrant within 72 hours after receiving the search warrant;

• Makes a violation of the new requirements an unfair or deceptive trade practice under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act", to be punished accordingly; and

• Authorizes the attorney general to adopt rules to carry out the new requirements.

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect 3 months after passage and approval by the Governor (Sec. 4). 

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to override the Governor's veto and pass a bill that establishes minor social media protections in Colorado.

Highlights:

• Establishes minor social media protections that require large social media companies used by individuals in Colorado to take down flagged accounts if they're determined to be selling guns or drugs, or if the accounts are engaged in the sex trafficking or sexual exploitation of minors (Sec. 1-3).

• Requires social media companies to set up staffed hotlines for communicating with law enforcement and respond to investigation requests within 72 hours (Sec. 1-3).

• Requires social media companies to publish annual reports on how many minors use their platforms, how often and for how long, and how much they interact with content that violates the company’s policies (Sec. 1-3).

• Establishes certain requirements for social media companies and social media platforms in order to protect users, including (Sec. 1-3):

• relocates, with amendments, certain language requiring a social media platform to include a function that provides minor users information about their engagement in social media, which language was enacted in 2024 by House Bill 24-1136;

• Requires a social media company to publish policies for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company (published policies) and establishes mandatory contents for the published policies;

• Requires a social media company to submit to the department of law an annual report that includes, for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company, information concerning the published policies and violations of the published policies;

• Requires a social media company to annually make publicly available a report that includes, for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company, certain data concerning how minor users used the social media platform;

• Requires a social media company, upon the notification of a user's alleged violation of the published policies or of state or federal law, to determine within 72 hours whether the violation occurred and, if so, to remove the user from the applicable social media platform within 24 hours after the determination is made;

• Requires a social media platform with at least one million users to provide a streamlined process to allow Colorado law enforcement agencies to contact the social media company that operates the social media platform and, under certain conditions, to comply with a search warrant within 72 hours after receiving the search warrant;

• Makes a violation of the new requirements an unfair or deceptive trade practice under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act", to be punished accordingly; and

• Authorizes the attorney general to adopt rules to carry out the new requirements.

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect 3 months after passage and approval by the Governor (Sec. 4). 

Full Bill Text

Vetoed by Governor Jared Polis

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes minor social media protections in Colorado.

Highlights:

• Establishes minor social media protections that require large social media companies used by individuals in Colorado to take down flagged accounts if they're determined to be selling guns or drugs, or if the accounts are engaged in the sex trafficking or sexual exploitation of minors (Sec. 1-3).

• Requires social media companies to set up staffed hotlines for communicating with law enforcement and respond to investigation requests within 72 hours (Sec. 1-3).

• Requires social media companies to publish annual reports on how many minors use their platforms, how often and for how long, and how much they interact with content that violates the company’s policies (Sec. 1-3).

• Establishes certain requirements for social media companies and social media platforms in order to protect users, including (Sec. 1-3):

• relocates, with amendments, certain language requiring a social media platform to include a function that provides minor users information about their engagement in social media, which language was enacted in 2024 by House Bill 24-1136;

• Requires a social media company to publish policies for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company (published policies) and establishes mandatory contents for the published policies;

• Requires a social media company to submit to the department of law an annual report that includes, for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company, information concerning the published policies and violations of the published policies;

• Requires a social media company to annually make publicly available a report that includes, for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company, certain data concerning how minor users used the social media platform;

• Requires a social media company, upon the notification of a user's alleged violation of the published policies or of state or federal law, to determine within 72 hours whether the violation occurred and, if so, to remove the user from the applicable social media platform within 24 hours after the determination is made;

• Requires a social media platform with at least one million users to provide a streamlined process to allow Colorado law enforcement agencies to contact the social media company that operates the social media platform and, under certain conditions, to comply with a search warrant within 72 hours after receiving the search warrant;

• Makes a violation of the new requirements an unfair or deceptive trade practice under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act", to be punished accordingly; and

• Authorizes the attorney general to adopt rules to carry out the new requirements.

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect 3 months after passage and approval by the Governor (Sec. 4). 

Full Bill Text