House Panel Leaders Strike Bipartisan KOSA Deal, Eyeing Floor Vote Next Week
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Updated · POLITICO · Jun 22
House Panel Leaders Strike Bipartisan KOSA Deal, Eyeing Floor Vote Next Week
2 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Jun 22
Summary
Brett Guthrie and Frank Pallone reached a bipartisan agreement on the Kids Online Safety Act, reviving House momentum on online child-safety legislation after months of negotiations.
Next week is now in play for a House floor vote under an expedited procedure, though lawmakers still must reconcile the measure with a competing Senate version before any year-end package can pass.
The House draft drops KOSA’s disputed “duty of care” standard, while setting federal child-safety rules that override weaker state laws and still allow stricter state protections.
That difference leaves a key clash with the Senate bill, which keeps the duty-of-care provision and is being folded into a broader White House-Blackburn package with AI deepfake and app-store rules.
Meta, which helped sink a Senate-passed KOSA two years ago, is no longer opposing the Senate version if it includes the App Store Accountability Act and limited AI-law preemption.