Senate Bill S8316

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Prevents interactive computer service providers from knowingly or negligently promoting developed content that is dangerous or otherwise injurious to minors

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Internet And Technology Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S8316 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8558
Current Committee:
Senate Internet And Technology
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §394-ccc, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S2319, A927

2021-S8316 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prevents interactive computer service providers from knowingly or negligently promoting developed content that is dangerous or otherwise injurious to minors; assesses a civil penalty to social media networks that knowingly or negligently promote such content.

2021-S8316 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S8316 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8316
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 11, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business  law,  in  relation  to  preventing
   interactive  computer  service providers from knowingly or negligently
   promoting developed content that is dangerous or  otherwise  injurious
   to minors

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 394-ccc to read as follows:
   § 394-CCC. INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICE PROVIDERS; DEVELOPING  INJURI-
 OUS  CONTENT;  MINORS.  1.  AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS
 SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A) "INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICE  PROVIDERS"  SHALL  MEAN  A  SERVICE
 PROVIDER WHO OPERATES IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WHICH, FOR PROFIT-MAKING
 PURPOSES,  OPERATES AN INTERNET PLATFORM THAT IS DESIGNED TO DISSEMINATE
 PUBLIC CONTENT GENERATED BY THIRD PARTIES;
   (B) "CONTENT" SHALL MEAN THE TEXTUAL, VISUAL OR AURAL INFORMATION THAT
 IS GENERATED BY A THIRD PARTY OR AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICE PROVID-
 ER;
   (C) "PROMOTE" SHALL  MEAN  TO  PRESENT,  OR  OTHERWISE  CONVEY,  THIRD
 PARTY-GENERATED   OR  INTERACTIVE  COMPUTER  SERVICE  PROVIDER-GENERATED
 CONTENT TO A TARGETED MINOR;
   (D) "MINOR" SHALL MEAN ANY PERSON UNDER THE AGE  OF  EIGHTEEN  WHO  IS
 LOCATED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK;
   (E)  "PLATFORM"  MEANS AN APPLICATION OR WEBSITE THAT SERVES AS A BASE
 FROM WHICH THE INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICE IS PROVIDED;
   (F) "TARGETED MINOR" MEANS A MINOR WHO USES THE  INTERACTIVE  COMPUTER
 SERVICE,  AND  WHO THE INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICE PROVIDER TARGETS FOR
 THE PURPOSE OF SENDING A DEVELOPED MESSAGE;
   (G) "TARGET, TARGETS, TARGETED, OR  TARGETING"  SHALL  MEAN  CONVEYING
 CONTENT  TO  A TARGETED MINOR SOLELY ON THE BASIS OF THEIR PERSONAL DATA
 WHICH INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, THE TARGETED MINOR'S:
   (I) LOCATION DATA, WHETHER GENERAL OR PRECISE, INCLUDING:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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