H.B. 567 Summary

• Requires manufacturers, sellers, and distributors of internet-enabled products to include digital blocking capability that renders human trafficking hubs, child pornography, revenge pornography, and obscene material inaccessible by default.

• Mandates manufacturers establish and maintain a reporting mechanism (website or call center) for consumers to report unblocked prohibited content or improperly blocked material, with response timeframes of no more than 5 business days.

• Allows adults to deactivate blocking capability upon verification of age 18+, acknowledgment of warning, and payment of a one-time $20 fee deposited into the human trafficking and child exploitation prevention special fund.

• Establishes the human trafficking and child exploitation prevention special fund to support prosecution, victim services, prevention programs, and grants for housing, employment training, healthcare, and other support services.

• Creates a misdemeanor offense for knowingly manufacturing or selling internet-enabled products without digital blocking capability to minors; exempts occasional individual sales; effective July 1, 2020.