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A 4302

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2025 Regular Session Introduced by Jeff Gallahan

Requires setting aside a portion of earnings from monetized family vlogs featuring minors, held in trust for the minor until adulthood.

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Bill Summary · A 4302

Summary — A4302 (1R)

Title: Relates to compensation for minors of family vloggers; amends and supplements P.L.1940, c.153 (NJ Child Labor Act)
Primary sponsor: Jeff Gallahan
Introduced: May 10, 2024
Latest status (selected): Reported out of Assembly committees with amendments (Apr–May 2025); Passed Assembly (June 30, 2025, 68–4–4); Received in Senate and referred to Senate Budget & Appropriations (Oct 20, 2025). Companion: S3183.

Purpose / Intent

To require family members and caregivers who produce compensated video blogs (vlogs) that feature minors under age 16 to compensate those minors by preserving a portion of earnings in trust for the minor. The bill updates the New Jersey Child Labor Act to address monetized family content and establish financial protections and recordkeeping for minors appearing in compensated vlogs.

Key provisions

  • Definitions:

    • “Vlog”: video content shared on an online platform in exchange for compensation.
    • “Vlogger”: person who creates video content that features a minor in exchange for compensation (performed in NJ); excludes persons under 16 producing their own vlogs. Committee amendments add a definition of “name” (actual/assumed name or nickname).
    • “Online platform”: public-facing website or application (e.g., social networks, ad networks, search engines).
    • “Caregiver” and “family member” are defined to include parents, guardians and relatives.

  • When a minor is considered engaged in vlogging (triggering protections):

    • At any time within the prior 12 months both:
    • At least 30% of the vlogger’s compensated video content produced within a 30‑day period includes the minor’s likeness, name, or photograph (measured as percent of time the minor appears or is the subject of narration in a segment); and
    • The video segment meets the platform’s threshold for generating compensation or the vlogger receives actual compensation ≥ $0.10 per view.

  • Trust account / compensation set‑aside:

    • Vlogger must set aside gross earnings attributable to video content that includes the minor in a trust account preserved for the minor until majority.
    • Distribution rule:
    • If one minor meets the threshold: set aside a percentage of gross earnings equal to (or greater than) one-half of the content percentage that includes the minor. (Example: if minor appears 30% of a segment, at least 15% of gross earnings for that segment must be set aside.)
    • If multiple qualifying minors appear, that set‑aside amount for the segment is divided equally among the qualifying minors regardless of individual appearance percentages.

  • Labor law interaction:

    • Minors who are deemed to be engaged in vlogging (as defined) are exempted from certain New Jersey statutory child labor hour limits and other child-labor requirements that would otherwise apply.
    • The bill creates a new regulatory framework (new sections) specific to vlogging while amending existing Child Labor Act provisions.

  • Recordkeeping:

    • Vloggers whose content features a qualifying minor must maintain specified records and provide them to the minor on an ongoing basis (committee amendments clarified that records apply to minors engaged both as vloggers and in producing vlogs).

Who is affected

  • Directly: minors under age 16 who regularly appear in monetized family/caregiver-produced vlogs and the caregivers/family members who create those vlogs.
  • Indirectly: online platforms (via monetization thresholds used to determine applicability), financial/trust account administrators, and the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (oversight/implementation of amended Child Labor Act provisions).

Procedural / timeline notes

  • Introduced in Assembly (May 10, 2024).
  • Transferred among Assembly committees; amended by the Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (Apr 10, 2025).
  • Reported by the Assembly Children, Families and Food Security Committee (May 8, 2025).
  • Passed Assembly (June 30, 2025); received in Senate (Oct 20, 2025) and referred to Budget & Appropriations.
  • Companion Senate bill: S3183.

Potential impacts / considerations

  • Provides a mechanism to reserve a measurable share of monetized vlog earnings for minors’ future benefit, mirroring protections historically used for child performers but tailored to online content.
  • Relies on platform monetization thresholds and a per‑view dollar threshold ($0.10) to define applicability; enforcement and valuation of attributable gross earnings may require administrative rules.
  • Exemption from general child-labor hour rules recognizes the unique nature of family-produced content but removes some traditional child-work protections, making recordkeeping and trust protections more important.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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