FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A bipartisan group of 20 Texas state senators wrote a letter to the state’s U.S. senators demanding stronger protections for children online.
The coalition says that a U.S. House bill meant to protect kids online is too weak. The Energy and Commerce Committee recently marked up the Kids Internet and Digital Safety, or KIDS Act, which contains a version of the Kids Online Safety Act that the legislators say is “considerably weaker” than the Senate version.
The letter urges Texas Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz “to support legislation that includes a duty of care and balanced preemption language, such as the Senate version of KOSA, to ensure that states retain the ability to protect children online effectively.”
This comes days after the White House introduced its National Framework for AI, which, if passed by Congress, would replace the 50-state patchwork of AI laws with one national standard.