(A) pursuant to a lawful request from a 
government body, including for law enforcement 
purposes or for judicial or administrative pro-
ceedings by means of a court order or a court- 
ordered warrant, a subpoena or summons 
issued by a judicial officer, or a grand jury sub-
poena; 
(B) to the extent that such disclosure is re-
quired by law and such disclosure complies with 
and is limited to the relevant requirements of 
such law; 
(C) to the child or a parent or legal guard-
ian of the child who made a delegation under 
such subsection and whose data is at issue, with 
such third-party safety software provider mak-
ing a good faith effort to ensure that such dis-
closure includes only the user data necessary 
for a reasonable parent or caregiver to under-
stand that such child is experiencing (or is at 
foreseeable risk to experience) the following 
harms— 
(i) suicide; 
(ii) anxiety; 
(iii) depression; 
(iv) eating disorders; 
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(v) violence, including being the victim 
of or planning to commit or facilitate as-
sault; 
(vi) substance abuse; 
(vii) fraud; 
(viii) severe forms of trafficking in 
persons (as defined in section 103 of the 
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 
(22 U.S.C. 7102)); 
(ix) sexual abuse; 
(x) physical injury; 
(xi) harassment; 
(xii) sexually explicit conduct or child 
pornography (as defined in section 2256 of 
title 18, United States Code); 
(xiii) terrorism (as defined in section 
140(d) of the Foreign Relations Authoriza-
tion Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 
U.S.C. 2656f(d))), including communica-
tions with or in support of a foreign ter-
rorist organization (as designated by the 
Secretary of State under section 219(a) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1189(a))); 
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(xiv) academic dishonesty, including 
cheating, plagiarism, and other forms of 
academic dishonesty that are intended to 
gain an unfair academic advantage; and 
(xv) sharing personal information, 
limited to— 
(I) home address; 
(II) phone number; 
(III) social security number; and 
(IV) personal banking informa-
tion; 
(D) in the case of a reasonably foreseeable 
serious and imminent threat to the health or 
safety of any individual, if the disclosure is 
made to a person or persons reasonably able to 
prevent or lessen the threat; or 
(E) to a public health authority or other 
appropriate government authority authorized by 
law to receive reports of child abuse or neglect. 
(2) DISCLOSURE
REPORTING.—A third-party 
safety software provider that makes a disclosure per-
mitted by paragraph (1)(A), (1)(B), (1)(D), or 
(1)(E) shall promptly inform the child with respect 
to whose account with a large social media platform 
the delegation was made under subsection (a) and 
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(if a parent or legal guardian of the child made the 
delegation) the parent or legal guardian that such a 
disclosure has been or will be made, except if— 
(A) the third-party safety software pro-
vider, in the exercise of professional judgment, 
believes informing such child or parent or legal 
guardian would place such child at risk of seri-
ous harm; or 
(B) the third-party safety software pro-
vider is prohibited by law (including a valid 
order by a court or administrative body) from 
informing such child or parent or legal guard-
ian. 
SEC. 5. IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT. 
(a) ENFORCEMENT.— 
(1) UNFAIR
OR
DECEPTIVE
ACTS
OR
PRAC-
TICES.—A violation of this Act shall be treated as 
a violation of a rule defining an unfair or deceptive 
act or practice prescribed under section 18(a)(1)(B) 
of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 
57a(a)(1)(B)). 
(2) POWERS OF COMMISSION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall 
enforce this Act in the same manner, by the 
same means, and with the same jurisdiction, 
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powers, and duties as though all applicable 
terms and provisions of the Federal Trade 
Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) were in-
corporated into and made a part of this Act. 
(B) PRIVILEGES
AND
IMMUNITIES.—Any 
person who violates this Act shall be subject to 
the penalties and entitled to the privileges and 
immunities provided in the Federal Trade Com-
mission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.). 
(3) PRESERVATION
OF
AUTHORITY.—Nothing 
in this Act may be construed to limit the authority 
of the Commission under any other provision of law. 
(b) FTC GUIDANCE.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission 
shall issue guidance to assist large social media platform 
providers and third-party safety software providers in 
complying with this Act. 
(c) COMPLIANCE ASSESSMENT.—The Commission, 
on a biannual basis, shall assess compliance by large social 
media platform providers and third-party safety software 
providers with the provisions of this Act. 
(d) COMPLAINTS.—The Commission shall establish 
procedures under which a child, or the parent or legal 
guardian of such child, a large social media platform pro-
vider, or a third-party safety software provider may file 
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a complaint alleging that a large social media platform 
provider or a third-party safety software provider has vio-
lated this Act. 
SEC. 6. ONE NATIONAL STANDARD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—No State or political subdivision 
of a State may maintain, enforce, prescribe, or continue 
in effect any law, rule, regulation, requirement, standard, 
or other provision having the force and effect of law of 
the State, or political subdivision of a State, related to 
requiring large social media platform providers to create, 
maintain, and make available to third-party safety soft-
ware providers a set of real-time application programming 
interfaces, through which a child or a parent or legal 
guardian of a child may delegate permission to a third- 
party safety software provider to manage the online inter-
actions, content, and account settings of such child on a 
large social media platform on the same terms as such 
child. 
(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—This section may not 
be construed to— 
(1) limit the enforcement of any consumer pro-
tection law of a State or political subdivision of a 
State; 
(2) preempt the applicability of State trespass, 
contract, or tort law; or 
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(3) preempt the applicability of any State law 
to the extent that the law relates to acts of fraud, 
unauthorized access to personal information, or noti-
fication of unauthorized access to personal informa-
tion. 
SEC. 7. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This Act shall take effect on the date on which the 
Commission issues guidance under section 5(b). 
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