(I) by striking ‘‘parent or child’’ 
and inserting ‘‘parent or teen’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘parental con-
sent’’ each place the term appears and 
inserting ‘‘verifiable consent’’; 
(iv) in subparagraph (C)— 
(I) in the matter preceding clause 
(i), by inserting ‘‘or teen’’ after 
‘‘child’’ each place the term appears; 
(II) in clause (i)— 
(aa) by inserting ‘‘or teen’’ 
after ‘‘child’’ each place the term 
appears; and 
(bb) by inserting ‘‘or teen, 
as applicable,’’ after ‘‘parent’’ 
each place the term appears; and 
(III) in clause (ii)— 
(aa) by inserting ‘‘or teen, 
as applicable,’’ after ‘‘parent’’; 
and 
(bb) by inserting ‘‘or teen’’ 
after ‘‘child’’ each place the term 
appears; 
(v) in subparagraph (D)— 
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(I) in the matter preceding clause 
(i)— 
(aa) by inserting ‘‘or teen’’ 
after ‘‘child’’ each place the term 
appears; and 
(bb) by striking ‘‘participant 
on the site’’ and inserting ‘‘who 
is a user of a website, online 
service, online application, or mo-
bile application’’; 
(II) in clause (ii), by inserting 
‘‘or teen’’ after ‘‘child’’; 
(III) in clause (iii), by striking 
‘‘site’’ and inserting ‘‘website, service, 
or application’’; and 
(IV) in the flush text following 
clause (iii)— 
(aa) by inserting ‘‘or teen, 
as applicable,’’ after ‘‘parent’’ 
each place the term appears; and 
(bb) by inserting ‘‘or teen’’ 
after ‘‘child’’; and 
(vi) in subparagraph (E)— 
(I) in the matter preceding clause 
(i), by striking ‘‘website or online 
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service’’ and insert ‘‘website, service, 
or application’’; and 
(II) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘its 
website’’ and inserting ‘‘the website, 
service, or application’’; 
(C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 
paragraph (4) and inserting after paragraph 
(2) the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) APPLICATION
TO
OPERATORS
ACTING 
UNDER AGREEMENTS WITH EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES 
OR
INSTITUTIONS.—The regulations promulgated 
under this subsection may provide that verifiable 
consent under paragraph (1)(A)(ii) is not required 
for an operator that acts under a written agreement 
with an educational agency or institution that re-
quires— 
‘‘(A) the operator to— 
‘‘(i) limit the collection, use, and dis-
closure by the operator of the personal in-
formation of a child or teen who is a stu-
dent served by the educational agency or 
institution to solely educational purposes 
and for no other commercial purposes; 
‘‘(ii) provide notice to the educational 
agency or institution regarding the specific 
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types of personal information the operator 
collects from such a child or teen, the 
method by which the operator obtains the 
personal information, and the purposes for 
which the operator collects, uses, discloses, 
and retains the personal information; 
‘‘(iii) provide to the educational agen-
cy or institution a link regarding the dis-
closure practices of the operator described 
in subsection (b)(1)(A)(i); and 
‘‘(iv) upon request by the educational 
agency or institution— 
‘‘(I) 
provide 
the 
educational 
agency or institution with a means to 
review the personal information col-
lected from such a child or teen; 
‘‘(II) prevent any further use, 
maintenance, or collection of personal 
information of such a child or teen; 
and 
‘‘(III) delete personal information 
collected from such a child or teen or 
content or information submitted by 
such a child or teen to the website, 
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online service, online application, or 
mobile application of the operator; 
‘‘(B) a representative of the educational 
agency or institution to provide— 
‘‘(i) the name of the representative; 
‘‘(ii) the title of the representative at 
the educational agency or institution; and 
‘‘(iii) an acknowledgment that the 
representative has authority to permit the 
collection, use, and disclosure of personal 
information of children or teens who are 
students served by the educational agency 
or institution on behalf of the educational 
agency or institution; and 
‘‘(C) the educational agency or institution 
to— 
‘‘(i) provide on a publicly available 
website of the educational agency or insti-
tution a notice that— 
‘‘(I) identifies the operator with 
which the educational agency or insti-
tution has entered into a written 
agreement under this paragraph; and 
‘‘(II) includes the link described 
in subparagraph (A)(iii); 
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‘‘(ii) upon request, provide the notice 
described in subparagraph (A)(ii) to a par-
ent (in the case of a child who is a student 
served by the educational agency or insti-
tution) or a parent or teen (in the case of 
a teen who is a student served by the edu-
cational agency or institution); and 
‘‘(iii) upon the request of a parent (in 
the case of such a child) or a parent or 
teen (in the case of such a teen), request 
the operator provide a means to review the 
personal information of such child or teen 
and provide such parent or teen a means 
to review the personal information.’’; 
(D) by amending paragraph (4), as so re-
designated, to read as follows: 
‘‘(4) TERMINATION OF SERVICE.—The regula-
tions promulgated under this subsection shall permit 
an operator to terminate service provided to a child 
for whom a parent has refused or a teen who has 
refused (under the regulations promulgated under 
paragraphs (1)(B)(ii) and (1)(C)(ii), respectively) to 
permit the operator any further use or maintenance, 
in retrievable form or online collection, of personal 
information of the child or teen.’’; and 
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(E) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraphs: 
‘‘(5) CONTINUATION OF SERVICE.—The regula-
tions promulgated under this subsection shall pro-
hibit an operator from discontinuing service provided 
to a child or teen on the basis of a request by a par-
ent of the child or by the teen (under the regulations 
promulgated 
under 
paragraphs 
(1)(B)(ii) 
and 
(1)(C)(ii), respectively) to delete personal informa-
tion collected from the child or teen, to the extent 
that the operator is capable of providing such service 
without such information. 
‘‘(6) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—A request to 
delete or correct personal information of a child or 
teen (under the regulations promulgated under para-
graphs (1)(B) or (1)(C), respectively) may not be 
construed— 
‘‘(A) to limit the authority of a law en-
forcement agency to obtain any content or in-
formation from an operator pursuant to a law-
fully executed warrant or an order of a court of 
competent jurisdiction; 
‘‘(B) to require an operator to delete or 
correct information that— 
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‘‘(i) the operator is required to main-
tain under any other provision of Federal 
or State law; or 
‘‘(ii) was submitted to the website, on-
line service, online application, or mobile 
application of the operator by any person 
other than the user who has requested that 
the content or information be deleted or 
corrected, including content or information 
submitted by the user that was republished 
or resubmitted by another person; or 
‘‘(C) to prohibit an operator from— 
‘‘(i) retaining a record of the request 
for deletion or correction and the informa-
tion necessary to comply with a request 
made under the regulations promulgated 
under paragraphs (1)(B) or (1)(C); 
‘‘(ii) preventing, detecting, protecting 
against, or responding to security inci-
dents, identity theft, or fraud, or reporting 
a person responsible for any such action; 
‘‘(iii) protecting the integrity or secu-
rity of a website, online service, online ap-
plication, or mobile application of the oper-
ator; or 
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‘‘(iv) ensuring that the personal infor-
mation of the child or teen remains de-
leted. 
‘‘(7) COMMON
VERIFIABLE
CONSENT
MECHA-
NISM.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(i) FEASIBILITY
OF
MECHANISM.— 
The Commission, with notice and public 
comment, shall assess the feasibility of al-
lowing an operator to use a common 
verifiable consent mechanism that meets 
the requirements of this title. 
‘‘(ii) REQUIREMENTS.—The feasibility 
assessment required by clause (i) shall con-
sider whether a single operator could use a 
common verifiable consent mechanism to 
obtain verifiable consent from a parent of 
a child or from a teen on behalf of mul-
tiple, listed operators that provide a joint 
or related service. 
‘‘(B) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of the enactment of this para-
graph, the Commission shall submit to the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Trans-
portation of the Senate and the Committee on 
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Energy and Commerce of the House of Rep-
resentatives a report detailing the results of the 
feasibility assessment required by subparagraph 
(A)(i). 
‘‘(C) REGULATIONS.—If the Commission 
determines in the feasibility assessment re-
quired by subparagraph (A)(i) that the use of 
a common verifiable consent mechanism is fea-
sible and meets the requirements of this title, 
the Commission shall promulgate regulations to 
permit the use of such a common verifiable con-
sent mechanism in accordance with such deter-
mination.’’; 
(4) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘a regulation 
prescribed under subsection (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘sub-
section (a)(1) or a regulation promulgated under 
subsection (b)’’; and 
(5) by amending subsection (d) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(d) PREEMPTION.—No State, or political subdivi-
sion of a State, may maintain, enforce, prescribe, or con-
tinue in effect any law, rule, regulation, requirement, 
standard, or other provision having the force and effect 
of law that relates to the provisions of this Act.’’. 
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(c) SAFE HARBORS.—Section 1304 of the Children’s 
Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 6503) 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(1), by inserting ‘‘and 
teens’’ after ‘‘children’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) PUBLICATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the Commission shall publish on the 
website of the Commission any report or documenta-
tion required under this title to be submitted to the 
Commission. 
‘‘(2) RESTRICTIONS
ON
PUBLICATION.—Not-
withstanding the publication requirement described 
in paragraph (1), the restrictions described in sec-
tions 6(f) and 21 of the Federal Trade Commission 
Act (15 U.S.C. 46(f); 57b–2) applicable to the dis-
closure of information obtained by the Commission 
shall apply in the same manner to any publication 
under paragraph (1).’’. 
(d) ACTIONS BY STATES.—Section 1305 of the Chil-
dren’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 
6504) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)— 
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(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A), by inserting ‘‘section 1303(a)(1) or’’ before 
‘‘any regulation’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting 
‘‘section 1303(a)(1) or’’ before ‘‘the regula-
tion’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘section 1303(a)(1) or’’ 
before ‘‘any regulation’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘section 1303(a)(1) or’’ 
before ‘‘that regulation’’. 
(e) ADMINISTRATION AND APPLICABILITY OF ACT.— 
Section 1306 of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection 
Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 6505) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘a rule of the Commission 
under section 1303’’ and inserting ‘‘section 
1303(a)(1) or a regulation promulgated under 
section 1303(b)’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘such rule’’ and inserting 
‘‘such section or such regulation’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(f) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT.—Any regulation 
promulgated under this title shall include a description 
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and analysis of the impact of proposed and final rules on 
small entities per the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 
(5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.).’’. 
SEC. 3. REPORTS. 
(a) OVERSIGHT REPORT.—Not later than 3 years 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal 
Trade Commission shall submit to the Committee on Com-
merce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
Representatives a report detailing the processes of high- 
impact social media companies to ensure that, for such 
companies that are websites, online services, online appli-
cations, or mobile applications directed to children, such 
websites, services, or applications operate in accordance 
with this Act, including the amendments made by this Act 
and the regulations promulgated under this Act. 
(b) ENFORCEMENT REPORT.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 
thereafter, the Federal Trade Commission shall submit to 
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce of the House of Representatives a report that de-
tails the following: 
(1) The number of actions brought by the Com-
mission during the reporting year to enforce the 
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Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 
(15 U.S.C. 6501) (referred to in this subsection as 
the ‘‘Act’’) and the outcome of each such action. 
(2) The number of investigations or inquiries 
into potential violations of the Act during the report-
ing year. 
(3) The number of open investigations or in-
quiries into potential violations of the Act as of the 
date on which the report is submitted. 
(4) The number and nature of complaints re-
ceived by the Commission relating to an allegation 
of a violation of the Act during the reporting year. 
SEC. 4. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this Act or the application of this 
Act to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the re-
maining provisions of this Act and the application of this 
Act to other persons or circumstances shall not be af-
fected. 
Æ 
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