Law / United States / 
Alabama
HB164, age verification for material harmful to minors
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In force since 1 October 2024.
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
As of 15 July 2026.
What this law does
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Requires commercial entities whose websites are more than one-third sexual material harmful to minors to use a reasonable age verification method to ensure visitors are 18 or older, without retaining identifying information after access is granted.
If you get it wrong
Private right of actionNo
Penalties
Violations are treated as a violation of the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, Chapter 19 of Title 8; a 10 percent excise tax also applies to gross receipts of qualifying adult websites.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Alabama Attorney General
What it reaches
Age threshold
18
Covered services
Commercial websites where more than one third of content is sexual material harmful to minors.
Verification methods
Gov ID, Transactional data, Third party service
When LexLint raises it
publishes_adult_content
Read the law
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