App stores are the digital gatekeepers of children’s online lives, but they systematically invite harm by treating children as adults and allowing them to consent to dangerous contracts with large corporations. App stores face little accountability for vague age ratings, and they routinely make critical details, such as app content descriptions, hard to access. This makes informed consent (which children are not capable of) effectively impossible.
Unlike nearly every other industry that markets products to children and teens, app stores have been practically exempt from child safety regulations. This creates dangerous loopholes in protections for minors, leaving them vulnerable to adult content, deceptive advertising, and exploitation.
HB570, App Store Accountability Act, addresses several critical gaps in app store protections for children:
- Parental consent
- App store “truth in advertising”
- App store age verification
This legislation is expected to be heard one day next week.
Please Take Action: Contact the members of the House Commerce Committee. See easy contact information below. Ask them to support this very important bill, HB579. Be sure to let them know that you are being updated by Concerned Women for America of Louisiana.
Please Pray: Pray that Louisiana state representatives will not be overcome with timidity and “political correctness” and will handle this issue with positive and fair wisdom.
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2
Commerce Committee Members
You can email them individually by clicking on each email address below or email them as a group by copying and pasting the following into an email:
hse028@legis.la.gov; thomaspj@legis.la.gov; hse102@legis.la.gov; hse089@legis.la.gov; hse085@legis.la.gov; davisp@legis.la.gov; hse053@legis.la.gov; hse083@legis.la.gov; hse031@legis.la.gov; hilfertys@legis.la.gov; jordane@legis.la.gov; hse093@legis.la.gov; hse049@legis.la.gov; hse001@legis.la.gov; hse068@legis.la.gov; hse023@legis.la.gov; hse099@legis.la.gov; risern@legis.la.gov; hse050@legis.la.gov; devillierp@legis.la.gov; hse027@legis.la.gov
Send individually:
Deshotel, Daryl Andrew – hse028@legis.la.gov
Chair | Dist. 28 | R
Thomas, Polly – thomaspj@legis.la.gov
Vice Chair | Dist. 80 | R
Boyd, Delisha – hse102@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 102 | D
Carver, Kim – hse089@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 89 | R
Cox, III, Vincent E. – hse085@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 85 | R
Davis, Paula – davisp@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 69 | R
Domangue, Jessica – hse053@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 53 | R
Green, Jr., Kyle M. – hse083@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 83 | D
Hebert, Troy Jude – hse031@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 31 | R
Hilferty, Stephanie – hilfertys@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 94 | R
Jordan, Edmond – jordane@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 29 | D
Knox, Alonzo L. – hse093@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 93 | D
Landry, Jacob Jules – hse049@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 49 | R
McCormick, Danny – hse001@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 1 | R
McMakin, Dixon Wallace – hse068@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 68 | R
Mena, Shaun Raphael – hse023@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 23 | D
Newell, Candace N. – hse099@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 99 | D
Riser, Neil – risern@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 20 | R
St. Blanc, III, Vincent “Vinney” – hse050@legis.la.gov
Member | Dist. 50 | R
DeVillier, Phillip – devillierp@legis.la.gov
Ex Officio | Dist. 41 | R
Johnson, Mike – hse027@legis.la.gov
Ex Officio | Dist. 27 | R