A bill to require large social media platform providers to create, maintain, and make available to third-party safety software providers a set of real-time application programming interfaces, through which a child or a parent may delegate permission to a third-party safety software provider to manage the online interactions, content, and account settings of such child on the large scale social media platform in the same manner as is available to the child, and for other purposes.

The bill introduced in the 119th Congress with the designation S. 4159 on March 20, 2026, aims to mandate large social media platform providers to establish and provide real-time application programming interfaces to third-party safety software providers. These APIs would enable a child or a parent to authorize a third-party safety software provider to oversee the online interactions, content, and account settings of the child on the social media platform. The bill states that such delegation of permission should mirror the control accessible to the child directly on the platform.