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H.B. 322 Child Actor Regulations (2025)

Became lawWritten by Rep. Doug Owens · carried in the Senate by Sen. Scott D. Sandall

  1. Introduced
  2. House committee
  3. House vote
  4. Senate committee
  5. Senate vote
  6. Signed into law

What this bill does

This bill requires parents or guardians to set up trusts for minors who work in entertainment or appear in social media content, and requires employers and content creators to deposit a share of the minor's earnings into those trusts. It also lets featured minors sue for violations, requires social media companies to offer a way to request deletion of content featuring a minor, and allows courts to order deletion.

Plain-English summary written by AI from the official description. Check the official text below.

Official description
  • defines terms
  • requires that a parent or guardian establish a trust for a minor involved in entertainment
  • provides the circumstances under which a child of a content creator is not subject to trust and compensation requirements
  • provides the circumstances under which a parent or guardian may serve as the trustee of a trust for a minor involved in entertainment
  • provides the requirements for a performer's employer when depositing a percentage of the earnings of a minor involved in entertainment into a trust
  • establishes a right of action for a minor involved in entertainment
  • requires that a content creator maintain a record that relates to a minor featured in the content creator's content
  • requires that a content creator inform a minor's parents that the minor is featured in the content creator's content
  • requires that a minor's parent or guardian establish a trust for the minor featured in social media content under certain conditions
  • establishes limitations related to the trust established for a minor featured in social media content
  • establishes a formula for a content creator to calculate the percentage of any earnings from social media that feature a minor and to transfer the earnings to the minor's trust
  • provides exemptions from the trust and compensation requirements
  • establishes a right of action for an individual featured in social media content as a minor
  • establishes a process by which a content creator may petition a court for an exception to the requirement to divide earnings from social media featuring a minor
  • grants an individual featured in social media content as a minor a right of deletion
  • requires that a social media company maintain a readily available process by which an individual featured in social media content as a minor may request that a content creator delete content featuring the individual featured in social media content as a minor
  • provides a process by which an individual may petition a court to require that a content creator delete the individual's content
  • provides for an award of attorney fees and damages
  • provides the circumstances under which the provisions of this bill supersede a contractual provision related to disputes
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