We encourage all interested parties to get involved in your state! Contact your legislator or the author of the bill and let them know what you think!
If you hear that your state has a bill pending, please let us know so we can include it on this list.
PENDING LEGISLATION
California SB1247 (Steve Padilla D-San Diego) Social Media Platforms and Family Vloggers– Right to be Forgotten law. Passed by the Senate 5/22/26, now heading to Assembly. The bill requires the family of a erson who is 18 and older to remove the content featuring the (former) child, or remove the child’s image, on request. It also provides for penalties of $3,000/day if the creator does not remove it on request. It also requires This bill also requires online social media platforms to provide a clear and conspicuous mechanism by which a child influencer can make the request. Coogan witholding if 30% of the vlogger’s compensated content includes the likeness,name, or photograph of the minor. Bizparentz supports this law because we fully support “right to be forgotten laws”. We do have an issue with the odd wording of the Coogan portion and do not believe that mathematical gymnastics should apply to Coogan, as it creates multiple standards for different types of work. It is our opinion that children appearing in monetized content are working — they are advertising — and all of their work should be treated the same. Nevertheless, Bizparentz supports this bill.
News articles HERE and HERE
California AB1709 (multiple legislators authoring). and SB 976. Introduced March 19, 2026. Protecitng Our Kids from Social Media Additction Act.. These bill would completely ban children under the age of 16 or 18 (depending on the bill) from addictive social media (addictive is defined in the law). This would dramatically affect young performers who maintain a professional online presence. We believe it would have a positive effect on the industry as it would delete social media numbers from the casting matrix. We also believe that science exists to say social media IS addictive and the mental health of young performers is particularly vulnerable to social media influence. Office of the Attorney General s page on the bill. Bizparentz supports this bill.
Tennessee SB1469 (Page Walley R-Bolivar) Child Content Creators. Status: on the Governor’s desk as of 4/16/26). Most unique aspect of this: it bans kids under 14 years of age from engaging in the work of content creation at all. It treats teens from 14-18 differently. This bill requires 30% of the monetized gross income to be shared with the child if they appear in half of the video content, in the form of a trust account. That account is an UTMA account (which is not actually blocked, but is a trust account). It does have a “right to be forgotten” clause, meaning minors 14 and up, and adults who were minors when their likeness was used, can ask the content creator to remove it. Note that Tennessee has few other child labor laws for entertainment. News article here.
Federal (S.1121/H.R.721) Performing Artist Tax Parity Act 2025 (U.S. Senate by Sens. Thom Tillis (NC) and Mark Warner (VA). Prior bill HR 312 was introduced by Rep. Judy Chu, D-CA-27 and Vern Buchanan, R-FL-16 in 2019 and again in 2021). As of April 2026, the bill has been stuck in the Committee on Finance for more than a year. This bill dramatically adjusts the Qualified Performing Artist (QPA) deduction that allows actors to claim their business expenses without having to create a corporation. This bill would increase the gross income cap from $16,000 to $100,000 for single filers ($200K for joint filers). The $16,000 cap has remained unchanged since the law was passed in 1986. In the 2017, President Trump’s tax overhaul eliminated most business deductions for individuals creating an untenable situation for child performers, all of whom file their own taxes. Bizparentz strongly supports this bill. The Federal government has a two-year legislative cycle.
Maryland HB645 and SB1162 (Del. Jazz M. Lewis (D-24) and Sen. Clarence Lam) Right to be Forgotten Bill/Child Influencers. Introduced in February 2024 and has gone nowhere after the first reading. According to an article in Teen Vogue Magazine, under the proposed Maryland legislation, children would receive $.10 per view for any monetized content in which they are featured in at least 30% of the content during a 30-day period. The compensation would then be held in a trust account, which the child would gain access to upon turning 18. The bill would also ensure that child influencers “may request the permanent deletion of the content” they appear in, obligating the social media platform the content lives on to honor the request (that is referred to in Europe as “the Right to be Forgotten”.
Recent Passed Legislation
California AB2602 (Kaira, Bryan, Friedman) (passed 9/17/24) requires that contracts for AI (artificial intelligence) performances must clearly state the intended use. Performance contracts often include sweeping likeness rights, with perpetuity language like “throughout the universe” , or “in all media whether now known or hereafter devised.”. This bill means that these contracts would not give them the right to use an AI replica unless they specifically say so in the contract.
Utah H.B. 322 Child Actor Regulations (Rep. Doug Owens (D), Sen. Scott Sandall (D.) Establishes a set of laws to regulate child actors, but particularly social media influencers. Establishes definitions of content creators and minors who are featured in social media by their parents, establishes a process by which an individual may petition the court to require that a child, at age 18 can request deletion of their image (right to be forgotten), provides a calculation to divide earnings and requires a an UTMA trust, so the money is not truly protected. The trust is triggered if the performer earned $20,000 or more in the previous calendar year, but there are additional bars for social media influencers, where the bar is $150,000, making it mostly moot. It requires the employer to transfer 15% of the performers gross earnings into the trust. Content creators must maintain monthly records of income, paid minutes compensated content and other details and must keep them for two years. The ormula for determining how much the child should have transferred to their trust is extremely complicated and unrealistic, starting with the fact that it is based on minutes, when most advertisements and reels are just seconds long. IT requires parents to maintain monthly records. All for the money to not even be protected from the parent.
California SB764 (Steve Padilla D-San Diego) Child Content Creator Rights Act. Status: passed 9/26/24 . This bill appears to have started out as an effort to protect children by regulating the social media platforms by updating the Civil Code, but in December 2023 it was announced the Sen. Padilla intends to amend this to be a regulation of child influencers and family bloggers. According to the Senator’s own press release the amendment updated the Coogan Law (which is in the Probate Code, Labor Code, and Family Code, not the Civil Code). It establishes trust accounts for children whose parents include them in 30% of their content, but only after the vlogger exceeds $1250 in a month. While we applaud this effort, we do not agree with the extremely complicated calculations it requires to determine if the child is worthy of Coogan. It also requires that all of the child’s earnings be deposited into a trust, and it is unclear whether it is a blocked trust (appears not). In other words, this law isn’t going to work in real life. It was supported by Quit Clicking Kids, an organization that backed a similar bill in IL. Bizparentz strongly supports the general idea of these bills, but maintains that California’s Coogan law already includes influencers and that these types of bills around the country will only serve to complicate an already unenforceable landscape. Influencers would be best viewed as what they are: commercial advertisers — no different from advertising agency-produced TV commercials–and thus should be protected under the same laws.
California AB1836 Bauer-Kahan) (passed 9/19/24) also addresses AI (artificial intelligence), but this bill applies to deceased performers. This bill requires that the performer’s estate has the right to consent to an AI replica, and that the right extends to 70 years after the performer’s death, like other copyrighted likenesses.
California AB1880 (Assemblymember Juan Alanis and Co-author Susan Rubio). (passed 9/26/24) Coogan for Child Content Creators. This law simply amends the current Coogan law in Family Code 6750 to include content creators. It adds a definition of “Content Creator” as someone who interacts with social media and engages in a direct contractual relationship with third parties. It includes content creators as part of the covered groups who must set aside 15% (like all other performers). There are no additional calculations involved. Press Release HERE. Bizparentz supports this bill as we believe influencers were ALREADY covered under CA law (AB2388, passed in 2018) but clarity is a good thing.
Illinois Senate Bill 1782 (Sen. Dave Koehler and Sen Linda Holmes (passed 8/11/23, effective July 1, 2024) Like a similar Washington state bill, the Illinois version was brought by a child, 15 year old Shreya Nallamothu. This law includes minors under the age of 16 (children ages 16-18 work as adults in IL) within the existing Child Labor Law. It also called for kidfluencers to be accurately compensated. as supported by reports from parents to the DOL, but along the way to passage, that function was watered down to be reports to the child. There are some interesting aspects of this, including the idea that to be defined as a vlogger, the child would have to appear in 30% of the family’s compensated video content within a 30 day period, and that the vlogger (the parent) must submit a report. This law requires ALL the child’s gross earnings (not 15% like Coogan) from vlogging to be put into an UTMA trust account until the child is 18. The penalty is that the CHILD can initiate civil penalties if the parent doesn’t report. It does not apply to minors making their own vlogs — just family vlogs. The unfortunate loss during the legislative process was about the child’s right to request removal of their image — that would have been valuable. Sadly, this law ended up being pretty hollow. Article about SB 1782 in the Illinois Senate Democratic Caucus. Bizparentz took no position on this bill.
Three Bill Package for Sexual Harassment and Child Abuse Prevention
California AB3369 (Chu) Passed 9/28/20 TAKES EFFECT IMMEDIATELY. This bill is part of an effort to clean up AB2338 (Levine) –– see recently passed legislation –which was not implemented due to multiple problems. This bill exempts employers of child actors from the sexual harassment training component IF the child has a valid work permit and IF the child is in compliance with the sexual harassment training requirement listed in Labor Code 1700.52. In other words, it means the child actor will not have to do sexual harassments training for EVERY job, EVERY employer. Instead they will only need to complete the training every two years. LC 1700.52 also requires that talent agencies keep a copy of a child’s work permit prior to agreeing to represent them, or send them on an audition.
California AB1963 (Chu) Passed 9/29/20. This bill adds most of our employers to the list of people who are mandated reporters of child abuse. The specific language is, “A human resource employee of a business that employs minors or a person whose duties require direct contact with and supervision of minors in the performance of the minors’ duties in the workplace.”. Bizparentz supports this bill.
California AB3175 (Levine) Passed 9/25/20. The urgency clause in this bill means it will take effect immediately. This is a major clean-up of the Levine bill from last year that required sexual harassment training for a work permit (see recently passed bills below). That bill was never really implemented because the problems were too extensive and appropriate training was not available. This bill would:
–change the training from both the child and the parent separately, to the parent doing training WITH the child, allowing parents the ability to discuss and explain sensitive situations
–the pair must complete online training in the state website (FREE), and then report completion to the DLSE. The Dept of Fair Employment and Housing has completed a new sexual harassment prevention training module and it is now available.
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California AB 267 (Chu) – PASSED signed by Gov. 9/12//2019. This law clarified the current regulation that babies under one month old need a physician’s clearance to work and, more importantly, it clarifies the definition of “entertainment industry” to include ALL forms. The current law language uses the outdated term “motion picture set or location”, but has always been interpreted to include all employment for babies. This bill changes the words to “in the entertainment industry” so that it is clearly intended for all types of work, and specifies that a board certified pediatrician must be the physician to sign for a work permit. According to the author, “In this era of online, streaming video and mobile entertainment content the infant stars of Youtube, Netflix and Instagram must be brought under the protection of law.” Bizparentz supported this bill.
California AB2338 (Levine) 2018 PASSED. signed by Gov 9/30/18, effective date unknown. This law was sponsored by the Association of Talent Agents and SAGAFTRA. It requires talent agencies to provide sexual harrassment educational materials. It also oddly requires PARENTS of performers ages 14 – 17 to attend complete sexual harrassment training prior to the issuance of an entertainment work permit. It also requires agents to obtain a copy of the child’s work permit before sending them out on an audition, meeting or job. Bizparentz was not consulted and had no input on this bill, nor did any parent of a performer that we are aware of. Had we been involved, we would have been STRONGLY OPPOSED. There is no situation when an employee (your agent) should be requiring job duties of a parent (attending training), and no situation when an employee (your agent) should be requesting and retaining your child’s work permit. There is a searchable work permit function and that should have been enough for an agent to see that a child has a valid permit if that was a legitimate concern. We have questions: how much is this training going to cost the artist? who is developing this training and will it be applicable to child performers? work permits in CA require valid bank accounts to be attached — are we now sharing bank information with our agent?
Implementation remains to be seen, but we see costly services in our future and are outraged that this bill did not travel through the appropriate committees, and that affected parties (parents and children) were not involved in the public process. Stay tuned. Deadline Article.
California AB2388 (Chu) 2018 PASSED Introduced 2/14/2018, signed by Gov 9/5/18. This bill was originally written to include social media influencers in the current child performer labor laws in CA, thus requiring Coogan accounts, work hours and education. After amendments, it added the word “digital” to the EXEMPTION in the law for one hour, uncompensated appearances (such as singing the anthem at a ballgame, or performing in a Facebook video) from labor laws. Bizparentz supported this bill in the original form.
New York S. 2440 / A.2683 (Hoylman) PASSED Child Victims Act. Signed into law Feb. 14, 2019. While not industry-specific, this bill extends the statute of limitations for child sex abuse cases. It also creates a one year “look back” window, which allows victims to file legal claims in instances where the statute of limitations window has expired. Extends criminal statute of limitations to to age 28 for felonies and age 25 for misdemeanors. For civil cases, will allow survivors to bring lawsuits until age 55. Provides training for judges. Bizparentz supports this legislation and any legislation that extends the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse cases.
Recent Dead Bills
Washington State House Bill 2032 (Reps. Wicks, Berry, Sells, Senn and Eslick). DIED IN COMMITTEE. Introduced 1/18/22, reintroduced 1/26/23, died in Judiciary Committe without a single vote. This bill was brought forward by a 17 year old Girl Scout named Chris McCarty(they/them) from Seattle. The bill aimed to protect the children of family vloggers, requiring parents to compensate their children based on the number of views if the child visually appears in 30% or more of the content. It also allows that children may request, upon reaching the age of majority, may request permanent deletion of any video segment from the internet platform (such as Youtube, TikTok, IG, etc). This bill was especially interesting since it would have been the first legislation about ANY child performer compensation in Washington. They currently have work permits and limited work hours, but it is not enforced and they have no Coogan provision. Article about HB 2032 in TechCrunch. Bizparentz took no position on this bill.
California AB 437 (Assemblymember Ash Kalma – D). Let Actors Work Act. Died on the Senate Floor, placed in the inactive file by Cortese on 11/30/22. A bill sponsored by SAG-AFTRA, which would allow actors in California the freedom to take on additional work as long as there is no material conflict of interest with their original employer. The bill also limits the unfair practice of production studios unilaterally holding artists off the job market for unreasonable periods of time. This bill is opposed by Motion Picture Association, and most studios and production companies. Bizparentz was neutral on this bill, because although we agree with the premise, we believe it will result in lower pay for actors overall, since much of the logic for higher wages lies in the logic that the studio/advertiser is buying the actor’s image for their brand or character. A companion bill, AB 983, was aimed for musicians and died in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
California AB2538 (Chu) DIED IN COMMITTEE. Introduced 2/19/20. Passed Assembly, but died in the Senate without passing a committee on 11/30/20. This bill refers to professional and pre-professional athletes and their agents. It would make their agent duties align with those in the Talent Agency Act in terms of not sending athletes who are minors to locations that are detrimental to their health or safety. This bill would prohibit an athlete agent from sending an athlete to any location that would be hazardous or detrimental to the health, safety, morals, or education of the minor, as specified. The bill would prohibit an athlete agent from entering any contract (example: a commercial) on behalf of an athlete who is a minor that requires the minor to appear at any event or establishment where alcoholic beverages or other intoxicating substances are sold to be consumed on the premises or where they are served, except as specified.
Federal H.R. 3691 (Meng) – 115th Congress. Introduced 9/6/2017, DIED IN COMMITTEE, never got co-sponsors. This bill would have been the first nationwide legislation designed to protect child models and actors. The Federal legislative process takes two years and this bill never progressed. This bill would establish a maximum number of work hours, blocked Coogan trust accounts at 15% , a specification that payment must be made in cash (as opposed to product), and that child performers cannot be sexually harrassed in the workplace.
Bizparentz did not support this bill. While we would welcome national standards, this bill contained details that we could not support. This is the second attempt at this kind of bill: Meng introduced a similar bill in 2015 that died in committee. Legislator’s Press Release. Opposing Critique from Deb McAlister.