Representatives Ricks and Paschal introduced Senate Bill 26-051: Age Attestation on Computing Devices. The bill requires application developers to receive user age information and use it to comply with any applicable law. The bill sponsors answered questions from the committee.

John Allwein, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. Mr. Bryan Friestad, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. Mr. Trevor Brunette, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. Joshua Holland, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. Mr. Benjamin Machlin, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. The panelists answered questions from the committee.

Alexander Martinez, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. Ryan Ray, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. Mr. Brandon Gigous, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. Matthew French, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. Aaron Zimmerlin, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. The panelists answered questions from the committee.

Matthew Logan, representing New Era Colorado, testified in a neutral position on the bill. Brandon Wark, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. Mr. Mitchell Hoppe, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. Nancy Rumfelt, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. Mr. Iain Corby, representing Age Verification Providers Association, testified in opposition to the bill. The panelists answered questions from the committee.

Mr. Carl Richell, representing Open Source Community, testified in support of the bill. Benjamin Teevan, representing Tik Tok USDS Joint Venture, testified in support of the bill. Jefferey Riester, representing Department of law, testified in support of the bill. Ms. Kiera Hatton, representing Cobalt, testified in support of the bill. Catching Valentinis, representing themself, testified in opposition to the bill. Jack Rosenthal, representing themself, testified in support of the bill. Daniel Hales, representing Future of Privacy Forum, was available to answer committee questions. The panelists answered questions from the committee.

Written testimony submitted to the committee may be found in Attachment A.

The bill sponsors and members of the committee offered closing comments on the merits of the bill.