AB 2390: Social Media Harm Reduction Pilot Program.

Session Year: 2023-2024
House: Assembly
Latest Version Date: 2024-03-21

Current Status:

Failed

(2024-05-16: Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5215.))

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Enacted

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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 establish the Social Media Pilot Program, and would require the program to identify the causes of adverse mental health impacts on the users of online social networks, test methods to mitigate the harms of those networks, and develop collection and reporting methods to track both the impacts and the causes of impacts of online social networks.

Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, which includes various state departments charged with the administration of health, social, and other human services.

This bill would establish, until December 31, 2029, the Social Media Harm Reduction Pilot Program and would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to designate a nonprofit organization to undertake the responsibilities of the program. The bill would require the program to do various specified tasks, including recommending statewide standards for the use of online social networks by kindergarten and grades 1 to 12 pupils, inclusive, and would require the program to coordinate with existing laws regulating social media platforms to ensure consistency and avoid duplication of effort.

Discussed in Hearing