Keywords
HB 3; CS/CS/HB 3; First Amendment; Material Harmful to Minors; Social Media; Injunction
Abstract
This thesis examines the constitutionality of the Florida House of Representatives’ 2024 priority bill, HB 3: “Online Protections for Minors,” through its ongoing litigation in North Florida. The broad nature of the bill, which is now Florida law, and its burden on accessing constitutionality protected speech and/or expression may not be consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. How the law defines and shapes what material may be accessible to people on the Internet, or the means they would need to use to create a social media account, are questions many other courts have begun to answer in analyzing analogous or similarly situated state laws. This thesis employs a comparative legal approach to provide a prediction of what the law’s fate would be.
Thesis Completion Year
2025
Thesis Completion Semester
Fall
Thesis Chair
Meltzer, Brett
College
College of Community Innovation and Education
Department
Department of Legal Studies
Thesis Discipline
Constitutional Law
Language
American English
Access Status
Open Access
Length of Campus Access
None
Campus Location
Orlando (Main) Campus
STARS Citation
Siegel, Evan J., "An Analysis of the Constitutionality of Florida's 2024 HB 3: “Online Protections for Minors,” Comparative to other State Regulations of the Internet" (2025). Honors Undergraduate Theses. 460.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hut2024/460
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