AB 3080 Summary

• Expands age verification requirements to products and services illegal to sell to minors, including paint, fireworks, firearms, tobacco, and electronic cigarettes, requiring reasonable steps to verify purchaser age at time of purchase or delivery.

• Adds new requirements for pornographic internet websites to verify user age before access, with methods including government ID verification, credit card requirements, or account-based age designations designed to anonymize user identity.

• Requires businesses to ensure age verification methods anonymize user identity and cannot create records of online activity for pornographic website access.

• Directs Attorney General to issue regulations further defining reasonable age verification steps for pornographic websites and limits civil penalty enforcement for pornographic website violations to actions brought by the Attorney General only.

• Makes provisions operative January 1, 2027, with the original section set to expire on that date.