HB164 Alabama 2024 Session

Updated Jan 14, 2026

House Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2024

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Ben Robbins Representative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2024
Title: Consumer Protection; online distribution of material harmful to minors, prohibited; online age-verification requirements, required
Description: This bill would provide legislative findings regarding the public health crisis caused by pornography.
This bill would require commercial distributors of sexual material harmful to minors to utilize age-verification software or programs to ensure their published material is not distributed to minors and would provide penalties for a violation.
This bill would prohibit the retention of any personally identifying information obtained in the use of online age-verification methods.
This bill would require distributors of sexual material harmful to minors to publish notices of the dangers of pornography on their online platforms.
This bill would assess a tax on the gross proceeds of revenue generated from the sales, distribution, memberships, subscriptions, performances of material deemed harmful to minors which is generated or produced in this state.
Under existing law, a person may not distribute the private image of another without that individual's consent.
This bill would specify that the consent must be in writing.
HB164 INTRODUCED Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Subjects: Consumer Protection