This bill creates a new chapter in Title 19 RCW establishing registration and regulatory requirements for compensated social media video creators (vloggers) and protections for minor children who appear in monetized content. It requires vloggers who have a substantial nexus to Washington and who received $12,000 or more in compensation from compensated social media video content in the prior 12 months to register with the Department of Revenue under RCW 82.32.030. It requires social media services and third‑party advertisers with a substantial nexus to Washington to create and fund trust accounts for minor children whose likeness, name, or photograph appears in compensated video segments, with withholding calculated pro rata by the percent of time the minor appears or is referenced (or divided equally if multiple minors appear), and trust funds preserved for the minor and made available at age 18. The bill also requires social media services with a Washington nexus to submit an annual report to the Department of Revenue beginning April 1, 2027, and each April 1 thereafter, and to make user-facing information available about vlogger registration, minors’ compensation rights, and rights to removal. It gives individuals who were depicted as minors in monetized childhood content a time-limited right (individuals aged 18 up to 23, per the extracted text) to request permanent deletion of that content; social media services must take reasonable steps to permanently delete or remove/obscure the specified content within 30 days of a valid request and must act within 30 days if the content is republished. The act creates civil enforcement mechanisms and penalties: a $1,000 civil penalty (enforceable by the Department of Revenue or the Attorney General) for violation of section 4; a $5,000 civil penalty (enforceable by the Department of Revenue or the Attorney General) for violation of section 6; and a civil cause of action for timely requesters under section 5 allowing district or superior court actions (subject to RCW 3.66.020 limits) with courts able to award a statutory penalty of $10,000 per violation, costs, reasonable attorney fees, and injunctive or other equitable relief. The act includes a severability clause. The text provides definitions for terms such as content creator, compensated social media video content, compensation, Department (the Department of Revenue), social media service (with specified exclusions), substantial nexus (as defined in RCW 82.04.067), third‑party advertiser, and vlogger (excluding persons under 18 who produce their own content). Important context is missing or incomplete in the extracted text: the exact new chapter number in Title 19 RCW is not shown; section 7 and subsequent text are cut off; the statutory damages provision in section 7 is partly truncated; the precise meaning and timing of a "timely request" under section 5 is not provided here; and any additional exceptions, administrative rules, or effective dates that may appear elsewhere in the bill are not included.

If enacted, social media platforms and third-party advertisers that do business in Washington will need to withhold part of payments tied to paid videos that include children and put those amounts into trust accounts for the minors, keep the money available until the child turns 18, and pay it to the former minor on request. Vloggers who earned $12,000 or more from compensated social media video content in the prior 12 months must register with the Department of Revenue, platforms must start filing an annual report with the Department beginning April 1, 2027, and people aged 18 through 22 can ask platforms to permanently delete monetized content that used their childhood likeness, with platforms required to act within 30 days; failure to register can trigger a $1,000 civil penalty, failure to comply with deletion requests can lead to private lawsuits with a $10,000 statutory penalty per item plus fees and injunctions, and another civil penalty of $5,000 applies for violation of the reporting or related requirements enforceable by the Department or the attorney general. The groups most affected are social media services and third‑party advertisers with a substantial nexus to Washington, who will face new withholding, trust‑account, reporting and user‑notification duties and the risk of civil penalties and costly litigation; vloggers meeting the $12,000 threshold gain a registration obligation; and minor children of vloggers gain protected trust funds and, once adults, stronger removal rights. Important implementation details are missing here — for example the bill’s full statutory‑damage language is truncated, the exact scope of “substantial nexus” is defined elsewhere, and the meaning and timing of a “timely request” to trigger private enforcement are not provided in the extracted text.