Online Age Verification Liability Act

Nebraska Online Age Verification Liability Act

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Enacted by LB1092 (2024), this law requires adult-content websites to verify that users are at least 18 using a digitized ID, government ID, financial or other reliable document, or a commercially reasonable transactional-data method. It has a privacy component: the site or its verifier may not keep identifying information after granting access.

Where: Nebraska
Citation: Neb. Rev. Stat. 87-1001 to 87-1005
Status: In force
In force since: 2024-07-19
Enforced by: Private civil action only (no agency enforcement provision in the act)
People can sue: Yes
Penalties: Aggrieved persons may obtain equitable or declaratory relief, actual damages (a minor or parent for access violations; an individual whose data was retained for retention violations), and discretionary attorney's fees and costs (87-1004).
Applies to: Commercial entities that knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute material harmful to minors on a website where more than one-third of the material is such material (87-1002(10), 87-1003(1))
Third parties that perform the age verification (87-1003(2))
Excludes news-gathering organizations and internet utilities (ISPs, search engines, cloud providers) that do not create the content (87-1005)

Rights it gives people

Minors, parents, and individuals whose data was retained may sue for actual damages, equitable relief, and fees.Neb. Rev. Stat. 87-1004

Practices it requires

Use a reasonable age verification method before allowing access to material harmful to minors on covered websites.Neb. Rev. Stat. 87-1003(1)
Do not retain any identifying information of the individual after access to the material has been granted.Neb. Rev. Stat. 87-1003(2)

Sources

Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.

Unverified: No court challenge to this act was found in searches; not confirmed against a docket search.

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