Age Verification for Websites with Sexual Material Harmful to Minors (H.B. 1181)

Requires covered adult websites to verify that users are 18 or older using digital identification or a commercial age verification system, and bars retaining identifying information from verification. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the age-verification requirement in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton (June 27, 2025); the Fifth Circuit's 2024 affirmance of the injunction against the mandatory health warnings (129B.004) was not disturbed.