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1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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2 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
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3 SENATE BILL 693 By: Thompson
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6 AS INTRODUCED
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7 An Act relating to social media; defining terms;
7 requiring certain warning; establishing criteria for
8 certain warning; providing certain exceptions;
8 authorizing Attorney General to bring civil action
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9 and providing an effective date.
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12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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13 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
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14 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 202 of Title 75A, unless there
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15 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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16 A. As used in this section:
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17 1. "Social media platform" means a website or internet medium
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18 that:
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19 a. permits a person to become a registered user,
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20 establish an account, or create a profile for the
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21 purpose of allowing users to create, share, and view
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22 user-generated content through such an account or
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23 profile,
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1 b. enables one or more users to generate content that can
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2 be viewed by other users of the medium, and
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3 c. primarily serves as a medium for users to interact
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4 with content generated by other users of the medium;
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6 2. "User" means a person who accesses or uses a social media
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8 B. A social media platform shall prominently display a warning
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9 to any user who accesses the platform for the first time and to any
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10 established user once per day. Such warning shall appear for a
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11 duration of sixty (60) seconds, shall render the applications of the
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12 platform unusable for such duration, and shall not be able to be
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13 terminated by the user before the end of such duration. Such
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14 warning shall display the following message: "WARNING. THERE IS
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15 REASONABLE EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST THAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS HAZARDOUS TO
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16 MENTAL HEALTH, ESPECIALLY IN YOUNG CHILDREN, TEENAGERS, AND YOUNG
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17 ADULTS."
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18 C. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a text
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19 messaging platform or a platform for which the primary purpose is
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21 D. The Attorney General is authorized to bring a civil action
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23 this section and to seek injunctive relief or other appropriate
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1 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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