CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 56Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-KahanDecember 02, 2024 An act relating to social media. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 56, as introduced, Bauer-Kahan. Social media: warning labels.Existing law regulates social media platforms through various acts, including the Cyberbullying Protection Act that 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 that 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 state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental health warning labels for social media platforms.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental health warning labels for social media platforms.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 56Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-KahanDecember 02, 2024 An act relating to social media. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 56, as introduced, Bauer-Kahan. Social media: warning labels.Existing law regulates social media platforms through various acts, including the Cyberbullying Protection Act that 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 that 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 state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental health warning labels for social media platforms.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 56
Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-KahanDecember 02, 2024
Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan
December 02, 2024
An act relating to social media.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 56, as introduced, Bauer-Kahan. Social media: warning labels.
Existing law regulates social media platforms through various acts, including the Cyberbullying Protection Act that 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 that 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 state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental health warning labels for social media platforms.
Existing law regulates social media platforms through various acts, including the Cyberbullying Protection Act that 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 that 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 state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental health warning labels for social media platforms.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental health warning labels for social media platforms.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental health warning labels for social media platforms.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental health warning labels for social media platforms.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental health warning labels for social media platforms.
### SECTION 1.