I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6488 
To prohibit certain platforms from allowing minors to create or maintain 
an account or profile on such platforms, and for other proposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 5, 2025 
Mrs. HOUCHIN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To prohibit certain platforms from allowing minors to create 
or maintain an account or profile on such platforms, 
and for other proposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reducing Exploitative 
Social Media Exposure for Teens Act’’ or the ‘‘RESET 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON ACCOUNTS AND PROFILES FOR 
MINORS. 
(a) PROHIBITION.— 
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count or profile of a user pursuant to para-
graph (2), a covered platform shall immediately 
delete all personal data collected from the user 
or submitted by the user to the covered plat-
form. 
(B) ACCESS
TO
PERSONAL
DATA
BY
A 
MINOR.—To the extent technically feasible and 
not in violation of any licensing agreement, a 
covered platform shall allow the user of an ex-
isting account or profile that the covered plat-
form has terminated pursuant to paragraph 
(2), from the date such termination occurs to 
the date that is 90 days after such date, to re-
quest, and shall provide to such user upon such 
request, a copy of the personal data collected 
from the user or submitted by the user to the 
covered platform both— 
(i) in a manner that is readable and 
which a reasonable person can understand; 
and 
(ii) in a portable, structured, and ma-
chine-readable format. 
(C) COMPLIANCE.—A covered platform 
shall fulfill a request under subparagraph (B) 
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not later than 45 days after the date on which 
such request is made to the covered platform. 
(b) ENFORCEMENT BY COMMISSION.— 
(1) UNFAIR
OR
DECEPTIVE
ACTS
OR
PRAC-
TICES.—A violation of this section shall be treated 
as a violation of a regulation under section 
18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act 
(15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B)) regarding unfair or decep-
tive acts or practices. 
(2) POWERS
OF
COMMISSION.—The Commis-
sion shall enforce this section in the same manner, 
by the same means, and with the same jurisdiction, 
powers, and duties as though all applicable terms 
and provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act 
(15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) were incorporated into and 
made a part of this Act. Any person who violates 
this section shall be subject to the penalties and en-
titled to the privileges and immunities provided in 
the Federal Trade Commission Act. 
(c) ACTIONS BY STATES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In any case in which the at-
torney general of a State, or an official or agency of 
a State, has reason to believe that an interest of the 
residents of such State has been or is threatened or 
adversely affected by an act or practice in violation 
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of this section, the State, as parens patriae, may 
bring a civil action on behalf of the residents of the 
State in an appropriate State court or an appro-
priate district court of the United States to— 
(A) enjoin such act or practice; 
(B) enforce compliance with this section; 
(C) obtain damages, restitution, or other 
compensation on behalf of residents of the 
State; or 
(D) obtain such other legal and equitable 
relief as the court may consider to be appro-
priate. 
(2) NOTICE.—Before filing an action under this 
subsection, the attorney general, official, or agency 
of the State involved shall provide to the Commis-
sion a written notice of such action and a copy of 
the complaint for such action. If the attorney gen-
eral, official, or agency determines that it is not fea-
sible to provide the notice described in this para-
graph before the filing of the action, the attorney 
general, official, or agency shall provide written no-
tice of the action and a copy of the complaint to the 
Commission immediately upon the filing of the ac-
tion. 
(3) AUTHORITY OF COMMISSION.— 
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(A) IN
GENERAL.—On receiving notice 
under paragraph (2) of an action under this 
subsection, the Commission shall have the 
right— 
(i) to intervene in the action; 
(ii) upon so intervening, to be heard 
on all matters arising therein; and 
(iii) to file petitions for appeal. 
(B) LIMITATION ON STATE ACTION WHILE 
FEDERAL ACTION IS PENDING.—If the Commis-
sion or the Attorney General of the United 
States has instituted a civil action for violation 
of this Act (referred to in this subparagraph as 
the ‘‘Federal action’’), no State attorney gen-
eral, official, or agency may bring an action 
under this subsection during the pendency of 
the Federal action against any defendant 
named in the complaint in the Federal action 
for any violation of this Act alleged in such 
complaint. 
(4) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—For purposes of 
bringing a civil action under this subsection, nothing 
in this Act shall be construed to prevent an attorney 
general, official, or agency of a State from exercising 
the powers conferred on the attorney general, offi-
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cial, or agency by the laws of such State to conduct 
investigations, administer oaths and affirmations, or 
compel the attendance of witnesses or the production 
of documentary and other evidence. 
(d) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS.—No State or 
political subdivision of a State may prescribe, maintain, 
or enforce any law, rule, regulation, requirement, stand-
ard, or other provision having the force and effect of law, 
if such law, rule, regulation, requirement, standard, or 
other provision relates to the provisions of this section. 
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Unless otherwise specified, 
this section shall take effect on the date that is 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this section. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Federal Trade Commission. 
(2) COVERED PLATFORM.—The term ‘‘covered 
platform’’ has the meaning given that term in sec-
tion 4 of the TAKE IT DOWN Act (Public Law 
119–12; 47 U.S.C. 223a note). 
(3) KNOW OR KNOWS.—The term ‘‘know’’ or 
‘‘knows’’ means to have actual knowledge or to have 
acted in willful disregard. 
(4) MINOR.—The term ‘‘minor’’ means an indi-
vidual under the age of 16. 
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