Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act

H.B. 18 (2023) requires covered social platforms to register users' ages, treat users under 18 as known minors, limit collection and sharing of minors' data, block targeted ads and precise geolocation collection for minors, and give verified parents tools and data access. The harmful-content monitoring and filtering duty (509.053) and the related algorithm duty (509.056(1)) remain preliminarily enjoined for CCIA and NetChoice; on July 24, 2026 the Fifth Circuit affirmed that injunction on Section 230 preemption grounds and vacated the broader injunction won by the SEAT plaintiffs (targeted-ads, unlawful-ads, and age-verification provisions).