This bill adds new sections to chapter 63.60 RCW and amends RCW 63.60.020 and RCW 63.60.040 to create new legal obligations and rights relating to compensated video content that includes minor children. It requires vloggers who meet specified use and compensation thresholds to set aside gross earnings from the relevant video content into a trust for the benefit of the minor child, to be preserved until the child reaches the age of majority. The bill also creates a post-majority right for an individual to require permanent deletion of video segments that include their likeness, name, or photograph from internet platforms or networks that paid the individual’s parent(s), and requires notification of those future deletion rights in contracts that reasonably foresee more than de minimis use of a vlogger’s minor child. The bill defines key terms (including vlogger, minor, likeness, photograph, and references the age of majority in RCW 26.28.010), sets an applicability test using a 30-day measurement period (at least 30 percent of compensated video content in a 30-day period must include the minor) and a 12-month lookback for whether the vlogger met the criteria. Compensation thresholds are stated as either meeting a platform’s view-based compensation threshold or receiving at least $0.10 per view. Trust set-aside distribution rules are prescribed: where one qualifying minor appears, at least the content percentage of gross earnings for that segment must be set aside; where multiple qualifying minors appear, the additive percentage is divided equally among them. The statute references affected parties (vloggers, minor children resident in Washington, internet platforms/networks, parents, trustees, and courts) and cross-references existing provisions (RCW 63.60.030, 63.60.020, 63.60.040, RCW 26.28.010 and Title 11 RCW terms). The bill text provided does not specify enforcement mechanisms, penalties, trustee qualifications or governance, precise definitions of “actual compensation” or a platform’s compensation threshold, nor detailed timing or procedures for platforms to carry out deletion requests. Where those details are necessary, the available text is incomplete.

If enacted, family vloggers who earn money from videos that feature a Washington-resident minor frequently enough (30 percent of compensated video in a 30‑day window, measured over the prior 12 months, and meeting the bill’s compensation thresholds) will have to set aside a defined share of the gross earnings from those videos into a trust for the minor until the minor reaches the age of majority. In practice that means parents or vlogger businesses will lose immediate access to a portion of video revenue, must create and fund trusts, and will likely face new accounting, trustee fees, and legal costs to comply; trustees and courts may become involved in administering those funds. If multiple qualifying minors appear in the same segment, the reserved share is split equally among them regardless of how much each child appears. Those who grew up in paid family content gain a new remedy at adulthood: they can ask platforms or networks that paid their parents to permanently delete video segments that include their name, photo, or likeness, and platforms must take “all reasonable steps” to comply. Platforms and networks will need contract language to acknowledge minors’ future deletion rights, set up processes for deletion requests, and may face added operational and legal costs; advertisers and distribution partners could also be affected. Important details are left unclear here, including how “actual compensation” or platform payout thresholds are calculated, exactly how trusts must be structured or enforced, what timelines count as “reasonable steps” for deletion, and what penalties apply for noncompliance.