United StatesH.R. 3149, App Store Accountability Act (federal)
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Proposed: draft date not recorded.
In committee, dated 11 December 2025, as of 13 September 2026.
An app store age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
As of 13 September 2026.
Where it has got to
The text described here is H.R. 3149 as introduced in the House. That print is H.R.3149 IH, published 1 May 2025.
Locally, this stage is forwarded, as amended, by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade to the full Committee on Energy and Commerce, by voice vote.
The stage above is recorded at www.congress.gov.
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce and its Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade on 1 May 2025. The Subcommittee held a markup on 11 December 2025 and forwarded the bill, as amended, to the full Committee by voice vote the same day. A further Committee meeting was noted for 5 March 2026, but the docket's own latest recorded action is still the 11 December 2025 forwarding, and no amended print has been published, so the introduced text is the latest public version.
What this law does
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Would require a covered app store provider (one with 5,000,000 or more United States users) to verify a user's age category and, for a minor, obtain verifiable parental consent before the minor may download or purchase an app or make an in-app purchase, and would require an app developer to rely on the app store's age-category signal and honor its parental-consent status.
Preempts state app store age-verification laws and designates the Federal Trade Commission as primary enforcer, with state attorneys general also authorized to sue. Forwarded, as amended, by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade to the full Committee on December 11, 2025; the full Committee has not reported it as of September 2026.
If you get it wrong
Private right of actionNo
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Federal Trade Commission (proposed); state attorneys general (proposed)
What it reaches
Age threshold
18
Covered services
App store operators with 5,000,000 or more United States users, and the app developers distributing through them.
Verification methods
Digital ID, Device signal, Self declaration
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
official bill text, Congress.gov
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