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The "Ohio Innocence Act," enacted as part of the HB 96 budget bill June 30, 2025; effective Sept 30, 2025.
The "Ohio Innocence Act," enacted as part of the HB 96 budget bill June 30, 2025; effective Sept 30, 2025. Requires sites with material obscene or harmful to juveniles to use reasonable age verification and geofencing, with periodic re-verification and strict data-deletion rules, AG-enforced.
Source: legislature.ohio.gov
Ohio's Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act (HB 33, 2023; Ohio Rev. Code 1349.09) requires covered platforms to obtain verifiable parental consent before an unemancipated child under 16 can agree to their terms. Its nominal effective date was Jan 1, 2024, but it never took effect: Judge Algenon Marbley granted a TRO on Jan 8, 2024 and struck the Act down on summary judgment Apr 16, 2025. On June 18, 2026 a divided Sixth Circuit panel REVERSED (NetChoice v. Yost, No. 25-3371) and remanded with instructions to enter judgment for Attorney General Yost. The panel split three ways: Judge Clay announced the judgment, holding NetChoice lacked prudential third-party standing to assert minors' First Amendment rights because the platforms' profit motive conflicts with the interests of the minors they purported to represent, and that NetChoice had not carried the burden for facial invalidation; the court treated the Act as content-based, applied strict scrutiny, and held it survives, also rejecting the vagueness challenge. Judge Batchelder concurred in the judgment on the narrower Moody scope/applications ground; Judge Ritz dissented. NetChoice petitioned for rehearing en banc on July 16, 2026. On Aug 17, 2026 the Sixth Circuit granted NetChoice's motion to stay its decision so it can petition the Supreme Court (per NetChoice's case page; the order itself has not been read). While the decision is stayed the court's mandate does not issue, so the district court's judgment blocking the Act remains the operative order: the Act is NOT in force. An earlier version of this entry said to treat it as in force; that was wrong. This is the clearest counter-example to the run of decisions blocking state social-media age laws.
Source: opn.ca6.uscourts.gov
HB 84, the Innocence Act, would reinforce Ohio's adult-content age-verification regime (already in force via HB 96) by creating an Innocence Act Enforcement Fund and clarifying the Attorney General's authority to enforce against sites distributing material obscene or harmful to minors. The Ohio House passed it on March 18, 2026, and it was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 25, 2026.
Source: legislature.ohio.gov
This state issues a mobile driver's license / state digital ID that residents can load into a phone wallet; it is on the AAMVA mDL list and TSA's digital-ID program.
Effective: Live
Source: tsa.gov
Yes. HB 96 (2025 budget) is in effect, effective Sep 30, 2025. The "Ohio Innocence Act," enacted as part of the HB 96 budget bill June 30, 2025; effective Sept 30, 2025.
A law was enacted but is currently blocked by a court. Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act (HB 33, 2023) is court hold, effective Blocked; Sixth Circuit decision stayed Aug 17, 2026. Ohio's Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act (HB 33, 2023; Ohio Rev.
This state issues a mobile driver's license / state digital ID that residents can load into a phone wallet; it is on the AAMVA mDL list and TSA's digital-ID program.
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