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Chapter 407, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 407.3405, to read as follows:

407.3405.

1.

As used in this section, the following terms mean:

(1) "Age verification", a method by which a commercial entity verifies the age of an individual by requiring the individual to:

(a) Provide digital identification;

or (b) Comply with a commercial age-verification system that verifies age using:

a.

Government-issued identification;

or b.

A commercially reasonable method that relies on public or private transactional data to verify the age of an individual;

(2) "Commercial entity", a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited partnership, sole proprietorship, or other legally recognized business entity;

(3) "Digital identification", information stored on a digital network that may be accessed by a commercial entity and that serves as proof of the identity of an individual;

(4) "Distribute", to issue, sell, give, provide, deliver, transfer, transmute, circulate, or disseminate by any means;

(5) "Minor", an individual younger than eighteen years of age;

(6) "News-gathering organization":

EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law.

Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

HCS HBs 1839, 2921 & 3015 2 (a) An employee of a newspaper, news publication, or news source, printed or on an online or mobile platform, of current news and public interest, who is acting within the course and scope of that employment and can provide documentation of that employment with the newspaper, news publication, or news source;

and (b) An employee of a radio broadcast station, television broadcast station, cable television operator, or wire service who is acting within the course and scope of that employment and can provide documentation of that employment;

(7) "Publish", to communicate or make information available to another person or entity on a publicly available internet website;

(8) "Sexual material harmful to minors", any material that:

(a) The average person applying contemporary community standards would find, taking the material as a whole and with respect to minors, is designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest;

(b) In a manner patently offensive with respect to minors, exploits, is devoted to, or principally consists of descriptions of actual, simulated, or animated displays or depictions of:

a.

A person's pubic hair, anus, or genitals or the nipple of the female breast;

b.

Touching, caressing, or fondling of nipples, breasts, buttocks, anuses, or genitals;

or c.

Sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation, excretory functions, exhibitions, or any other sexual act;

and (c) Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors;

(9) "Transactional data", a sequence of information that documents an exchange, agreement, or transfer between an individual, commercial entity, or third party used for the purpose of satisfying a request or event.

"Transactional data" includes records from mortgage, education, and employment entities.

2.

A commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on an internet website, including a social media platform, more than one-third of which is sexual material harmful to minors, shall use a third party to perform reasonable age-verification methods to verify that an individual attempting to access the material is eighteen years of age or older.

3.