Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania has not enacted an age gating law in any of the four tracked families and has no comprehensive consumer privacy law of its own yet. Bipartisan bills requiring age verification for pornography websites (HB 1513 and SB 603) and a bill requiring parental consent verification for minors on social media (HB 1430) were introduced in 2025 and remain in committee without passing either chamber. Pennsylvania has no app store age verification bill of note. Its most advanced privacy related bill is the Consumer Data Privacy Act (HB 78), which would require opt in consent before processing a known child's data under 13 or a known minor's data under 16 for targeted advertising, sale, or profiling. It passed the House 127 to 76 on October 1, 2025, was reported out of the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee on February 4, 2026 and re-referred to the Senate Communications and Technology Committee, which re-reported it as amended on June 24, 2026; it received second consideration on the Senate floor on June 25, 2026 and awaits final Senate passage.
Subnational jurisdiction. Reviewed 2026-07-15.
HB 78, Pennsylvania Consumer Data Privacy Act
Would require a controller to obtain opt in consent before processing the personal data of a known child under 13, and before processing a known minor's data under 16 for targeted advertising, sale, or profiling producing legal or similarly significant effects. Passed the House 127 to 76 on October 1, 2025, was reported by the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee on February 4, 2026 and re-referred to the Senate Communications and Technology Committee, which re-reported it as amended on June 24, 2026; it received second consideration on June 25, 2026 but has not passed the full Senate.
- Citation
- Pennsylvania House Bill No. 78 (2025-2026 Reg. Sess.), pending
- Status
- Proposed
- Effective date
- Not yet effective
- Applies to
- Private sector
- Age threshold
- 16
- Covered services
- Controllers that would be subject to the proposed Pennsylvania Consumer Data Privacy Act processing data of a known child or minor
- Penalties
- Proposed exclusive enforcement by the Attorney General, no private right of action
- Enforcement body
- Proposed: Pennsylvania Attorney General
- Private right of action
- no
- Source
- Pennsylvania House Bill No. 78 (2025-2026 Reg. Sess.), pending
Reviewed 2026-07-15. Confidence: high. Fast-moving area, verify before relying. Not legal advice.