Today's Committee Meetings on the LRL website is a calendar of interim committee hearings with links to agendas. Below are resources related to upcoming Interim Hearings.
January 7, 2025
Joint Committee to Study the Effects of Media on Minors
Topic: Health and developmental effects of media on minors and the effects of exposure by a minor to various forms of media, including:
(A) social media platforms;
(B) software applications;
(C) Internet websites;
(D) television programming;
(E) motion pictures and film;
(F) artificial intelligence;
(G) mobile devices;
(H) computers;
(I) video games;
(J) virtual and augmented reality; and
(K) other media formats the joint committee considers necessary.
- Social Media and Children 2024 Legislation, National Conference of State Legislatures, updated November 22, 2024
- Daily Screen Time Among Teenagers: United States, July 2021-December 2023, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Data Brief, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, October 2024
- Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Task Force: Safe and Secure Social Media Use, Bipartisan Policy Center, September 2024
- Online Health and Safety for Children and Youth: Best Practices for Families and Guidance for Industry, Kids Online Health and Safety Task Force, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, July 22, 2024
- Social Media and Youth Mental Health, Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, last reviewed June 17, 2024
- Teens and Video Games Today, Pew Research Center, May 9, 2024
- Generation Screen: Navigating the Digital Age for Children, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, April 5, 2024
- Social Media and Children 2023 Legislation, National Conference of State Legislatures, updated January 26, 2024
- Teens, Social Media and Technology 2023, Pew Research Center, December 11, 2023
- The Fragmentation of Online Child Safety Regulations, Brookings Institution, August 14, 2023
- Health Advisory on Social Media Use in Adolescence, American Psychological Association, May 2023
