{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.curtis.senate.gov/press-releases/committee-advances-curtis-priorities-to-strengthen-online-safety-for-children", "Committee Advances Curtis Priorities to Strengthen Online Safety for Children", "2026-08-05", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "UT", "John R. Curtis", "C001114", "www.curtis.senate.gov", "curtis", "https://www.curtis.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Video of the Senator\u2019s Committee remarks can be found here, and a transcript is below.\n\nAs we all know, the digital world is changing faster than parents can keep up with it. And our kids are growing up in an online environment that barely existed a few years ago.\n\nMy wife and I raised six children, and we thought it was complicated when we raised them. And now I am expecting my 19th grandchild in a couple of weeks, and I can\u2019t fathom what they have to navigate to get through this environment.\n\nThe bills we advanced today are an important step toward giving families the tools and transparency they need to keep their kids safe.\n\nI want to thank the Chairman, Ranking Member Cantwell, and everyone who worked together in good faith to get us here.\n\nI\u2019m especially proud to be a lead cosponsor of the CHATBOT Act with Chairman Cruz and Senators Schatz and Schiff.\n\nChairman Cruz was collaborative throughout this process and incorporated several ideas Senator Schiff and I advanced in our SAFE KIDS Act.\n\nI\u2019m also proud to partner with Senator Lee on the SCREEN Act and commit to work with him and my other colleagues to advance that to the Senate floor.\n\nWe have to get this right.\n\nThat means protecting children without stifling innovation, empowering parents without leaving them on their own, and writing laws that will still make sense years from now.\n\nBut our work isn\u2019t finished today.\n\nI\u2019m continuing to push to advance bipartisan bills from my colleagues and me to hold platforms accountable for the harm their products create, help users distinguish authentic content from AI slop, and close loopholes that allow youth to access content they shouldn\u2019t see.\n\nParents shouldn\u2019t have to carry this burden alone.\n\nPlatforms have a responsibility, Congress has a responsibility, and we should keep working together to build a safer digital world for our kids.\n\nToday\u2019s votes are meaningful progress, but they\u2019re not the finish line.\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Committee passed the Kids Online Safety Act; Youth AI Privacy Act; CHATBOT Act; and Children\u2019s Artificial Intelligence Toy Safety Act of 2026. Included in the CHATBOT Act were several key provisions from Curtis\u2019 bipartisan SAFE KIDS Act, introduced with Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA).\n\nThe provisions adopted from the SAFE KIDS Act include:\n\nRequiring AI chatbots to provide regular, clear disclosures reminding users that they are interacting with artificial intelligence\u2014not a real person;\n\nProhibiting AI chatbot providers from materially assisting a minor in planning or attempting suicide;\n\nProhibiting AI chatbot providers from providing obscene material to minors; and\n\nRequiring AI chatbot providers to notify a parent or guardian, as soon as feasibly possible, if a minor asks about committing suicide, while also directing the minor to external crisis resources.\n\nIn addition, several other priorities championed by Senator Curtis in the SAFE KIDS Act were advanced through Senator Ed Markey (D-MA)\u2019s Youth AI Privacy Act, including:\n\nA prohibition on advertising to children through AI chatbots;\n\nRestrictions preventing companies from processing or transferring children\u2019s data for targeted or behavioral algorithmic purposes; and\n\nWhistleblower protections to encourage employees to report violations and protect those who expose harmful practices.\n\nTogether, these provisions represent significant bipartisan progress toward establishing stronger safeguards for children online, increasing transparency around AI systems, strengthening parental awareness, and protecting young users from harmful or exploitative practices.", 1, "2026-08-06T07:37:31Z", "2026-08-06T07:38:34Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.curtis.senate.gov/press-releases/committee-advances-curtis-priorities-to-strengthen-online-safety-for-children"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5172420535236597, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}