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SCOPE App Stores and Known Minors

Two Texas statutes, two sets of actors: SCOPE duties for digital services and app-store duties under SB 2420, each with its litigation status.

LG12 · Hub: Children Teens and Age Verification · Intended reader: Platform, product, education, and child-privacy teams

Scope

The SCOPE Act (HB 18) and the App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420) as distinct enactments, with provision-specific litigation and enforcement status; uses enrolled acts where codification numbering conflicts. Texas relevance: Texas minor-protection law runs through two separate statutes with different actors, duties, and litigation postures, and collapsing them misstates obligations for platforms and app stores.

Section outline

  1. Deck: "Two Texas statutes, two sets of actors: SCOPE duties for digital services and app-store duties under SB 2420, each with its litigation status."
  2. Short answer: which statute covers whom, core duties, current litigation posture.
  3. Section: Two Statutes, Not One.
  4. Section: SCOPE Act: Monitoring, Filtering, and Parental Tools.
  5. Section: SCOPE Act: Covered Digital Services and Minor Signals.
  6. Section: SB 2420: App-Store Actors and Duties.
  7. Section: Known Minors: Signals and Determinations.
  8. Section: Enrolled Acts Versus Codification (numbering conflicts).
  9. Section: Reported July 2026 SCOPE Appellate Ruling (source-dated, disposition not adopted as final).
  10. Section: Reported SB 2420 Injunction and Stay Sequence (2025-2026) and Litigation Consequences.
  11. What Is Unsettled: litigation outcomes and provision-specific enforcement status.
  12. Sources.
  13. Related reading: LG11 (COPPA), LG13 (age assurance), /resources/compliance-deadlines/ (CR03, which sources LG12).

Assigned content modules

  • G54: Texas SCOPE App Stores and Minors

Required research sections

  • SCOPE Act HB 18 as distinct from App Store Accountability Act SB 2420 (what it covers)
  • Monitoring, filtering, and parental tools (named portions; what each covers)
  • Digital-service and app-store actors (what it covers)
  • Minor signals and known-minor determinations (what it covers; CG08 age-assurance required coverage as applicable)
  • The reported July 2026 SCOPE appellate ruling (what it covers; reported disposition, not stated as final without review)
  • The reported 2025-2026 SB 2420 injunction and stay sequence and litigation consequences (what it covers; consequences stated without treating unreviewed disposition as final)

Research anchors and owner works

Anchors: L02, L13, L08. Owner works: A01 (dependency; content to be supplied by owner, not invented)

Owner works: A01 (dependency; content to be supplied by owner, not invented).

Sister-site crossover

both. The data site explains general children and platform privacy under the two statutes; the AI site keeps AI-specific applications. Verified companion: https://texasailaw.com/guides/minors-apps-and-ai/ (Appendix F mode: both). Related insight link-out: https://texasailaw.com/insights/sb2420-fifth-circuit/.

Industry: Technology and platforms; Retail and consumer
Track: Compliance

Related reading

  • COPPA