Display
Language
About accessibility
Language
Display
Sign in

Bills › 89th General Assembly

HF 171Died when the session ended · January 22, 2021

Relating to the prohibition of social media censorship and suppression of religious and political speech

Topics:Courts & civil lawTechnology & privacyKids online & social media

Write your legislators about it
Official bill pageLobbyist declarationsOne-pager to print

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2021
  2. Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
  3. Next: House committee
  4. Next: Passes the House
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to the prohibition of social media censorship and suppression of religious and political speech. The bill creates a new Code chapter. The bill provides that a social media internet site user may bring a civil action against the owner or operator of a social media internet site with users in this state if the social media internet site purposely censors a social media internet site user’s religious or political speech or uses an algorithm to suppress the social media internet site user’s religious or political speech.

Read the full explanation

The bill provides for damages up to $75,000 for each purposeful act of censorship or suppression, as well as actual damages, equitable relief, and attorney fees. The bill sets forth what a social media internet site may use as a defense and what a social media internet site may not use as a defense for censorship or suppression. The bill provides that the Code chapter may be enforced by a social media internet site user who is years old or older or by the attorney general. The bill provides that venue is in the state of Iowa.

Full bill text1

Iowa Code it changes

Creates§686E.1§686E.2§686E.3§686E.4§686E.5§686E.6§686E.7§686E.8

How the Code works2

Lobbying

2 for · 1 against · 3 undecided · Who →

Family tree

Tried before

HF 317Cleared committee88th GA

89th General Assembly

HF 171Cleared committee

Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.

Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

  • HF 317 Relating to the prohibition of social media censorship and suppression of religious and po…
    88th General Assembly · In committee · same title
    Cleared committee

Matched by wording or an identical title.