Alabama App Store Accountability Act

Shifts age-verification and parental-consent duties to app stores; existing accounts must be categorized by Oct 1, 2027. Newly enacted — no litigation reported yet. Its eventual Code of Alabama 1975 chapter/section number is still not confirmed: the enrolled bill routes enforcement through the Deceptive Trade Practices Act (Title 8, Ch. 19, Ala. Code § 8-19-1 et seq.) rather than assigning the act's own substantive provisions a chapter, so there may be no separate codified cite to give. Signing date is triangulated, not primary — two independent legal-reference sources give Feb 17, 2026 while one contemporaneous news report gives Feb 18, 2026; the Alabama Secretary of State's act-detail record (arc-sos.state.al.us), which would settle both the date and the codification, has been unreachable at the host level, so the source link here is the Legislature's own enrolled text of HB 161 instead.