Pennsylvania

Subnational jurisdiction · as of 2026-07-15

Pennsylvania has not enacted an age gating law in any of the four tracked families and has no comprehensive consumer privacy law of its own yet. Bipartisan bills requiring age verification for pornography websites (HB 1513 and SB 603) and a bill requiring parental consent verification for minors on social media (HB 1430) were introduced in 2025 and remain in committee without passing either chamber. Pennsylvania has no app store age verification bill of note. Its most advanced privacy related bill is the Consumer Data Privacy Act (HB 78), which would require opt in consent before processing a known child's data under 13 or a known minor's data under 16 for targeted advertising, sale, or profiling. It passed the House 127 to 76 on October 1, 2025, was reported out of the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee on February 4, 2026 and re-referred to the Senate Communications and Technology Committee, which re-reported it as amended on June 24, 2026; it received second consideration on the Senate floor on June 25, 2026 and awaits final Senate passage.