SB1106 Summary

• Adds Arizona Revised Statutes chapter 7 to regulate social media platforms operating in Arizona with over $100 million in annual revenues and 100 million monthly users globally.

• Prohibits social media platforms from deplatforming candidates from the date of qualification through the election or until they cease to be a candidate, with exceptions under the federal Communications Decency Act.

• Imposes civil penalties of $250,000 per day for deplatforming statewide office candidates and $25,000 per day for other candidates who violate the deplatforming prohibition.

• Requires social media platforms to publish detailed standards and definitions used for determining how they will deplatform users.

• Subjects state employees who violate these provisions to removal from state service, suspension, debarment up to five years, reduction in grade, reprimand, or civil penalties up to $1,000.