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Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced

Sammy’s Law

S. 4159Introduced Mar 20, 2026Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Official title: A bill to require large social media platform providers to create, maintain, and make available to third-party safety software providers a set of real-time application programming interfaces, through which a child or a parent may delegate permission to a third-party safety software provider to manage the online interactions, content, and account settings of such child on the large scale social media platform in the same manner as is available to the child, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Sen. Jon Husted R-OH
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Where it went

Latest action: Mar 20, 2026 — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

2 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 1 Democrat

1 of 2 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.

Katie Britt (R-AL), Mark Warner (D-VA).

More from the sponsor

Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Sen. Jon Husted.

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Sponsor’s state and district

Ohio in Congress

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Data as of Oct 7, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.