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Utah
SB 142 (2025), App Store Accountability Act, as amended by HB 498 (2026), App Store Accountability Act Amendments
Utah Code Ann. Title 13, ch. 76
An app store age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- The duties below bind app store providers; the law also covers software application developers offering apps in Utah, including preinstalled apps.
- Verify a user's age category.
- Link a minor's account to a parent account.
- Obtain parental consent before a minor can download or purchase an app, including preinstalled apps.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionYes
Penalties
The greater of actual damages or $1,000 per violation in a private civil action; no Attorney General civil penalty since the 2026 amendment.
Statutory damages
A prevailing parent recovers the greater of actual damages or $1,000 for each violation, plus reasonable attorney fees and litigation costs; only a violation of the app store provider's or developer's consent duties is actionable, and enforcement is by private suit only since HB 498 (2026) removed Attorney General enforcement.
- As of
- Currency
- USD
- Per person minimum
- 1,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Private right of action only, brought by an injured minor or a parent or guardian, since HB 498 removed Attorney General enforcement.
Litigation
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
- Docket
- Computer & Communications Industry Association v. Brown (D. Utah)
- Posture
- Filed challenging the original Act on First Amendment grounds. Voluntarily dismissed on after HB 498 removed Attorney General enforcement, which the plaintiff said mooted its standing to sue.
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Which methods count as "commercially available methods that are reasonably designed to ensure accuracy" under section 13-76-201(1)(a)(ii), when the chapter names only affirmative age attestation by a parent for a minor?
- What are "reasonable measures to facilitate verifiable parental consent" for a pre-installed application under section 13-76-201(1)(g)(ii)?
What it reaches
Age threshold
18
Covered services
App store providers and software application developers offering apps in Utah, including preinstalled apps.
How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
User location
Obligation class
Age verification, Consent, Disclosure, Security
Verification methods
Device signal, Parental consent
What it makes you log
Who may demand the log
Counterparty
What the log must hold
Age assurance result, Consent or opt-out state
Logging duty
Section 13-76-201(1)(f) limits an app store provider's collection and processing of age category data and associated verification data to what is necessary for verifying age, obtaining verifiable parental consent or "maintaining compliance records", which names a compliance record of the age and consent checks. The provider must give developers age category data and the status of verified parental consent on request (13-76-201(1)(d)). The duties begin .
- Kind
- Explicit
- As of
- Provision
- Utah Code Ann. section 13-76-201(1)(f), with (1)(d) and 13-76-202 (SB 142, 2025, as amended by HB 498, 2026)
- Trigger
- age_assurance
- consent_or_optout
What this law does
Requires app store providers to verify a user's age category, link a minor's account to a parent account, and obtain parental consent before a minor can download or purchase an app, including preinstalled apps. The original Act was signed with a compliance deadline.
A 2026 amendment (HB 498, signed ) removed Attorney General enforcement, limited enforcement to a private right of action with damages of the greater of actual damages or $1,000 per violation, extended coverage to preinstalled apps, and delayed the compliance deadline one year to .
When LexLint raises it
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