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Maryland age-verification & online ID laws

Failed HB 394 (2025); HB 672 (2024)

Stand-alone adult-content age-verification bills (HB 672 in 2024, HB 394 in 2025) failed to pass.

Laws & bills on record

Adult content

Failed
Bill / statute
HB 394 (2025); HB 672 (2024)
Status
Bill introduced, then failed

Stand-alone adult-content age-verification bills (HB 672 in 2024, HB 394 in 2025) failed to pass. Maryland's enacted Kids Code (the Maryland Age-Appropriate Design Code, 2024) is a design-code statute imposing default privacy and data-protection duties on services likely to be accessed by children -- not an ID-check age-verification mandate -- and it was partially enjoined in NetChoice v. Brown.

Timeline
  • Jan 10, 2024Pending
  • Apr 7, 2025Failed

Source: mgaleg.maryland.gov

Digital ID

This state issues a mobile driver's license / state digital ID that residents can load into a phone wallet; it is on the AAMVA mDL list and TSA's digital-ID program.

Effective: Live

Source: tsa.gov

Frequently asked questions

Does Maryland require age verification to access adult websites?

No -- a bill was introduced but failed. HB 394 (2025); HB 672 (2024) is failed. Stand-alone adult-content age-verification bills (HB 672 in 2024, HB 394 in 2025) failed to pass.

Does Maryland have a digital ID requirement?

This state issues a mobile driver's license / state digital ID that residents can load into a phone wallet; it is on the AAMVA mDL list and TSA's digital-ID program.

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