Protect Tennessee Minors Act

PTMA
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Requires adult-content websites to verify, with a photo-ID match or a commercially reasonable transactional-data method, that each visitor is 18 or older, and to re-verify after each age-verified session (at most 60 minutes). Verifiers must keep seven years of anonymized verification records but may not keep the user's identifying information after access is granted. A federal district court enjoined it in December 2024, but the Sixth Circuit stayed that injunction on January 13, 2025, and after Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton vacated it in November 2025; the challenge continues in the Western District of Tennessee without an injunction.

Jurisdiction

Tennessee

Jurisdiction Type

state

Country

United States

Effective Date

1/1/2025

Enforcing Authority

Tennessee Attorney General and Reporter (civil actions against commercial entities); district attorneys (criminal); private plaintiffs for damages

Fines Under This Regulation

0

Total Fine Amount (USD)

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