Law / United States / 
Louisiana
Act 456 (SB 162), Secure Online Child Interaction and Age Limitation Act
A social media and minors rule binding private bodies.
- Private right of action
- No
- Penalties
- Civil penalties up to $2,500 per violation after a 45 day cure period.
- Age threshold
- 16
- Covered services
- Social media platforms with 5 million or more worldwide account holders.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Data subject residence
- Verification methods
- Third party service, Parental consent
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to social media platforms with 5 million or more worldwide account holders.
- Verify the age of Louisiana users.no control in the NIST Privacy Framework
- Obtain parental consent for account holders under 16.NIST Privacy FrameworkCT.PO-P1
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text. Also read by: NetChoice, LLC v. Murrill, No. 3:25-cv-00231-JWD-RLB (M.D. La. ) (recorded ).
In the frameworks
- NIST Privacy Framework
- CT.PO-P1Policies, processes, and procedures for authorizing data processing (e.g., organizational decisions, individual consent), revoking authorizations, and maintaining authorizations are established and in place.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework, and in the NIST Privacy Framework, line by line beside each duty above. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Louisiana Division of Public Protection (enforcement permanently enjoined).
Litigation
- Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Docket
- NetChoice v. Murrill, No. 3:25-cv-00231-JWD-RLB (M.D. La.); appeal docketed as NetChoice v. Murrill, Nos. 26-30016 and 26-30223, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Posture
- Summary judgment for NetChoice on held Act 456 unconstitutional and permanently enjoined enforcement as to NetChoice member platforms. Louisiana docketed its appeal at the Fifth Circuit on as No. 26-30016, with a related notice of appeal docketed as No. 26-30223. Louisiana filed its opening brief on and NetChoice filed its opposition brief on . The appeal remains pending, with no oral argument date yet set.
Settledness
The permanent injunction runs only to ten named NetChoice members: Meta, Nextdoor, Pinterest, Reddit, Snap, X, YouTube, Automattic, Discord and Amazon (Twitch).
- As of
- Case link
- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-lamd-3_25-cv-00231/pdf/USCOURTS-lamd-3_25-cv-00231-1.pdf
- Case citation
- NetChoice, LLC v. Murrill, No. 3:25-cv-00231-JWD-RLB (M.D. La. )
- Under challenge
- Yes
- Open questions
- How is a service's "predominant or exclusive function" determined under La. R.S. 51:1751(12)(b), for a service that combines an excluded function, such as electronic mail, with a feed of content posted by account holders?
- What makes an age assurance mechanism "commercially reasonable" under La. R.S. 51:1751(12)(b)(ii) for a service whose terms of use do not permit minors?
What it makes you log
Log retention
The deletion duty attaches to one of the listed consent methods, not to every method the section allows.
- As of
- Basis
- Purpose bound
- Prohibits retaining
- Government-issued identification information collected to confirm a parent's or guardian's identity, where the company uses that consent method; it must be deleted after the identity is confirmed
Logging duty
R.S. 51:1752(A) requires a social media company to make commercially reasonable efforts to verify the age of Louisiana account holders, and (B) requires a parent's express consent before a Louisiana minor holds an account. Neither requires a log or record of the check or the consent, and sections 1751 to 1754 name no audit or inspection.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Required social media platforms with 5 million or more worldwide account holders to verify the age of Louisiana users and obtain parental consent for account holders under 16. Its original effective date was delayed one year to by Act 656 of 2024. A federal court held the act unconstitutional and permanently enjoined enforcement on First Amendment grounds in December 2025, and Louisiana has docketed its appeal at the Fifth Circuit.
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