CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2657Introduced by Assembly Member ArambulaFebruary 14, 2024 An act to add Division 21 (commencing with Section 27000) to the Health and Safety Code, relating to social media. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2657, as introduced, Arambula. Social Media Commission.Existing law regulates social media platforms, through various acts, including the Cyberbullying Protection Act, which requires a social media platform to, among other things and subject to specified exceptions, disclose all cyberbullying reporting procedures in the terms of service, and the Online Violence Prevention Act, which requires a social medial platform to, except as specified, clearly and conspicuously state whether it has a mechanism for reporting violent posts that is available to users and nonusers of the platform. This bill would establish the Social Media Commission and would require the commission to investigate the impacts on the mental health of children and adolescents of the methods and tools used by social media companies and to make recommendations on how best to mitigate these impacts.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Division 21 (commencing with Section 27000) is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:DIVISION 21. Social Media27000. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that despite the potential benefits to society of online social networks, there is substantial evidence of adverse mental health impacts on the users of the many tools designed to increase time spent on these networks.(b) There is hereby established the Social Media Commission.(c) The commission shall investigate the impacts on the mental health of children and adolescents of the methods and tools used by social media companies and shall make recommendations on how best to mitigate these impacts.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2657Introduced by Assembly Member ArambulaFebruary 14, 2024 An act to add Division 21 (commencing with Section 27000) to the Health and Safety Code, relating to social media. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2657, as introduced, Arambula. Social Media Commission.Existing law regulates social media platforms, through various acts, including the Cyberbullying Protection Act, which requires a social media platform to, among other things and subject to specified exceptions, disclose all cyberbullying reporting procedures in the terms of service, and the Online Violence Prevention Act, which requires a social medial platform to, except as specified, clearly and conspicuously state whether it has a mechanism for reporting violent posts that is available to users and nonusers of the platform. This bill would establish the Social Media Commission and would require the commission to investigate the impacts on the mental health of children and adolescents of the methods and tools used by social media companies and to make recommendations on how best to mitigate these impacts.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2657
Introduced by Assembly Member ArambulaFebruary 14, 2024
Introduced by Assembly Member Arambula
February 14, 2024
An act to add Division 21 (commencing with Section 27000) to the Health and Safety Code, relating to social media.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2657, as introduced, Arambula. Social Media Commission.
Existing law regulates social media platforms, through various acts, including the Cyberbullying Protection Act, which requires a social media platform to, among other things and subject to specified exceptions, disclose all cyberbullying reporting procedures in the terms of service, and the Online Violence Prevention Act, which requires a social medial platform to, except as specified, clearly and conspicuously state whether it has a mechanism for reporting violent posts that is available to users and nonusers of the platform. This bill would establish the Social Media Commission and would require the commission to investigate the impacts on the mental health of children and adolescents of the methods and tools used by social media companies and to make recommendations on how best to mitigate these impacts.
Existing law regulates social media platforms, through various acts, including the Cyberbullying Protection Act, which requires a social media platform to, among other things and subject to specified exceptions, disclose all cyberbullying reporting procedures in the terms of service, and the Online Violence Prevention Act, which requires a social medial platform to, except as specified, clearly and conspicuously state whether it has a mechanism for reporting violent posts that is available to users and nonusers of the platform.
This bill would establish the Social Media Commission and would require the commission to investigate the impacts on the mental health of children and adolescents of the methods and tools used by social media companies and to make recommendations on how best to mitigate these impacts.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Division 21 (commencing with Section 27000) is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:DIVISION 21. Social Media27000. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that despite the potential benefits to society of online social networks, there is substantial evidence of adverse mental health impacts on the users of the many tools designed to increase time spent on these networks.(b) There is hereby established the Social Media Commission.(c) The commission shall investigate the impacts on the mental health of children and adolescents of the methods and tools used by social media companies and shall make recommendations on how best to mitigate these impacts.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Division 21 (commencing with Section 27000) is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:DIVISION 21. Social Media27000. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that despite the potential benefits to society of online social networks, there is substantial evidence of adverse mental health impacts on the users of the many tools designed to increase time spent on these networks.(b) There is hereby established the Social Media Commission.(c) The commission shall investigate the impacts on the mental health of children and adolescents of the methods and tools used by social media companies and shall make recommendations on how best to mitigate these impacts.
SECTION 1. Division 21 (commencing with Section 27000) is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
### SECTION 1.
DIVISION 21. Social Media27000. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that despite the potential benefits to society of online social networks, there is substantial evidence of adverse mental health impacts on the users of the many tools designed to increase time spent on these networks.(b) There is hereby established the Social Media Commission.(c) The commission shall investigate the impacts on the mental health of children and adolescents of the methods and tools used by social media companies and shall make recommendations on how best to mitigate these impacts.
DIVISION 21. Social Media27000. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that despite the potential benefits to society of online social networks, there is substantial evidence of adverse mental health impacts on the users of the many tools designed to increase time spent on these networks.(b) There is hereby established the Social Media Commission.(c) The commission shall investigate the impacts on the mental health of children and adolescents of the methods and tools used by social media companies and shall make recommendations on how best to mitigate these impacts.
DIVISION 21. Social Media
DIVISION 21. Social Media
27000. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that despite the potential benefits to society of online social networks, there is substantial evidence of adverse mental health impacts on the users of the many tools designed to increase time spent on these networks.(b) There is hereby established the Social Media Commission.(c) The commission shall investigate the impacts on the mental health of children and adolescents of the methods and tools used by social media companies and shall make recommendations on how best to mitigate these impacts.
27000. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that despite the potential benefits to society of online social networks, there is substantial evidence of adverse mental health impacts on the users of the many tools designed to increase time spent on these networks.
(b) There is hereby established the Social Media Commission.
(c) The commission shall investigate the impacts on the mental health of children and adolescents of the methods and tools used by social media companies and shall make recommendations on how best to mitigate these impacts.