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2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2436

Social media; set certain requirements against content depicting tobacco or nicotine for minors.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Public Health and Welfare Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS FROM DISPLAYING MATERIAL THAT COULD EASILY INFLUENCE MINORS TO ENGAGE IN THE HARMFUL MISUSE OF TOBACCO OR NICOTINE PRODUCTS; TO NOTE THAT THE LEGISLATURE IS OPPOSED TO SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT DEPICTING HARMFUL MISUSE OF TOBACCO OR NICOTINE PRODUCTS; TO NOTE THAT THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI HAS AN INTEREST IN PROTECTING MINORS FROM SUCH CONTENT; TO DEFINE TERMS; TO REQUIRE OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS TO ENACT POLICIES WHICH ADDRESS AND RESPOND TO RISKS OF HARM TO MINORS INVOLVING TOBACCO AND NICOTINE PRODUCTS; TO REQUIRE OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS TO PROVIDE A MEANS FOR USERS TO REPORT CONTENT WHICH DEPICTS THE HARMFUL MISUSE OF TOBACCO OR NICOTINE PRODUCTS; TO REQUIRE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS TO CONSIDER CERTAIN ASPECTS OF CONTENT REPORTED ACCORDING TO THIS ACT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

1 co-sponsor

Bart Williams

Its course

January 20 to February 4, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the SenateJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days

Public Health and WelfareJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the Senate Jan 20 – Feb 4

  1. Jan 20Referred to the Senate committee on Public Health and Welfare
  2. Feb 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 20Referred To Public Health and WelfareSenate
  2. Feb 4Died In CommitteeSenate