#waleg HB 2112: Take action on age verification: in Washington state
If you're a Washington resident, tell your legislators not to follow Texas' lead!
https://www.takeaction.network/xactions/46385 is an action with a suggested script, talking points you can use if you want to if you want to extend the script or write your own, and an easy way to contact your legislators by email
Here's a video of the hearing on HB 2112. CW: discussions of suicide
https://tvw.org/video/house-consumer-protection-business-2026011219/?eventID=2026011219
If you only have a few minutes skip ahead to the panel starting at about 1:13:20 including Oliver Miska of Lavender Rights Project and Danni Askini of Gender Justice League, If you've got a little more time, it starts with a short description of the bill with some highlights from the House Bill Analysis at https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/House/2112%20HBA%20CPB%2026.pdf?q=20260124213950
There are other highlights in my live-skeeting at https://blacksky.community/profile/wa-privacy.net/post/3mckgkpimb22d (it only shows about 10 posts at a time; click on the "read 1 reply" to show the next batch)
You can see a single-thread version at https://tbsky.app/profile/wa-privacy.net/post/3mckgkpimb22d (it takes a while to load, sorry).
wa-privacy.net: Coming up at 8:00 Pacific time, it's the #waleg hearing on HB 2112...
My testimony, and some followup mail I sent to the committee, is at https://privacy.thenexus.today/waleg-2026/
Here's the text of the bill, also known as "Keep Our Children Safe Act" https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/House/2112%20HBA%20CPB%2026.pdf?q=20260124213950
And here's the action again -- even if you're not a Washington resident, some of the links in the Additional Information section might be interesting.
And if you're a Washington resident who opposes age verification, here's another action you can take: sign in OTHER to an Appropriations hearing on HB 1834, the child safety bill AG Brown has been doing some great Instgram reals on. Signing in for a hearing states your position on the bill, and the action describes why we're suggesting signing in Other in this case.
It needs to be done by Monday at 3:00 pm (an hour before the hearing starts)
