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Read. Follow. Verify.Missouri House Bill 1818 sets financial trust, recordkeeping, and content removal rules for child influencers
Last action · May 14, 2026: Action Postponed (H)Sponsors: Becky Laubinger and 1 other
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What This Bill Would Do
Representative Becky Laubinger introduced House Bill 1818 to require content creators featuring minors earning at least twenty-five thousand dollars annually to set aside a portion of earnings in a trust account, maintain detailed records, and comply with removal requests for posts featuring minors after August 28, 2026.
Child content creators in Missouri meeting specific earnings and appearance thresholds will have mandatory financial trust accounts established for their future benefit, and platforms must enforce deletion requests for posts featuring them as minors.
- State legislatures across the United States have increasingly introduced bills to regulate child influencers and protect the financial and privacy rights of minors featured in monetized online content. context
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Minor content creators
Minor influencers meeting earnings thresholds will have mandatory trust accounts established for a portion of their earnings and gain rights to request post deletions.
Content creators
Adult and youth content creators must track viewing metrics, maintain detailed records until minors turn twenty-one, set aside trust funds, and comply with removal requests.
Social media platforms
Platforms must provide user-facing removal request mechanisms, notify creators, and delete content if creators fail to comply within specified timeframes.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What qualifies a minor as engaged in the work of content creation under this bill?
When do the funds in the trust account become available to the minor?
What happens if a content creator fails to remove a post after a valid removal request?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
12 actions- May 14, 2026HouseAction Postponed (H)
- May 13, 2026HouseAction Postponed (H)
- May 11, 2026HouseAction Postponed (H)
- Feb 12, 2026HouseCommitteeReferred: Rules - Legislative(H)
- Feb 3, 2026HouseCommitteeHCS Reported Do Pass (H)
- Feb 3, 2026HouseCommitteeHCS Voted Do Pass (H)
Show 6 earlier actions
- Feb 3, 2026HouseExecutive Session Completed (H)
- Jan 27, 2026HousePublic Hearing Completed (H)
- Jan 8, 2026HouseCommitteeReferred: Children and Families(H)
- Jan 8, 2026HouseFloorRead Second Time (H)
- Jan 7, 2026HouseIntroducedRead First Time (H)
- Dec 1, 2025HouseIntroducedPrefiled (H)
Version history
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Extension of Child Labor Laws to Digital Creators
The legislation applies traditional child labor protections, such as trust accounts and earnings set-asides, specifically to online content creation and social media influencers.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance75How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy60Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment20Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz65Current news / social attention level
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