Nebraska Age Verification Law: LB 1092 Explained

Nebraska has two separate age-verification laws that are frequently confused with each other. LB 1092 (2024) requires adult websites to verify a visitor's age and is enforced only through private lawsuits. LB 383 (2025), a different law regulating social media accounts, has been partly blocked by a federal court. This page covers LB 1092.

What LB 1092 Requires

LB 1092, approved by the Governor on April 16, 2024, creates Nebraska's Online Age Verification Liability Act. Section 87-1003(1) provides that a commercial entity shall not knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute material harmful to minors on the internet on a website that contains a substantial portion of such material unless the entity uses a reasonable age-verification method to verify the age of an individual attempting to access the material. Section 87-1003(2) adds that an entity or third party performing that verification shall not retain any identifying information of the individual after access has been granted.

The act is codified in Chapter 87 of the Nebraska Revised Statutes, the chapter covering trade practices, at sections 87-1001 through 87-1005. Section 87-1001 supplies the short title, and § 87-1002 defines the operative terms, including "material harmful to minors," "reasonable age verification method," and "substantial portion," which the act sets at more than one-third of the total material on a website.

Enforcement: Private Lawsuits Only

LB 1092 does not give Nebraska's Attorney General a role in enforcing it. Section 87-1004 creates a private right of action for "a person aggrieved by a violation," which can include a minor, a parent or guardian, or an individual whose identifying information was improperly retained during an attempted verification. A court can grant preliminary, equitable, or declaratory relief, along with actual damages, and may award attorney's fees and costs at its discretion. No government enforcement mechanism appears anywhere in the act.

This puts LB 1092 in the same enforcement category as Kentucky's law and North Dakota's law: a private-right-of-action-only model, with no role for the state's own law-enforcement apparatus.

When the Law Took Effect

The Online Age Verification Liability Act took effect on July 19, 2024.

LB 1092 contains no effective-date section and no emergency clause, so the constitutional default governs. Article III-27 of the Nebraska Constitution provides that "no act shall take effect until three calendar months after the adjournment of the session at which it passed," unless the Legislature declares an emergency by a two-thirds vote. The 2024 session was the 108th Legislature's second session, whose sixtieth and final legislative day was April 18, 2024, when it adjourned sine die. Three calendar months later places the effective date at July 19, 2024, the same operative date the Nebraska Department of Revenue lists for other non-emergency bills passed that session.

The sections as codified carry no separate operative-date note, which is how the Legislature's statute pages flag a delayed start when one applies. LB 383's sections, by contrast, are published with an "Operative Date: July 1, 2026" line.

LB 1092 Is Not Nebraska's Social Media Law

Nebraska also enacted LB 383 (2025), the Parental Rights in Social Media Act, codified at Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 86-1701 to 86-1705, with an operative date of July 1, 2026. It is a separate law that requires social media platforms to use a reasonable age-verification method before a minor creates an account and to obtain express parental consent for minor accounts, both under § 86-1703. LB 383 targets account creation on social media platforms generally; it does not concern access to adult websites, and it is not the law described elsewhere on this page.

In June 2026, a federal court in NetChoice, LLC v. Hilgers preliminarily blocked two specific pieces of LB 383: the age-verification requirement for creating a social media account, and the requirement that platforms obtain express parental consent for minor accounts. The court left one part of LB 383 in place, a requirement that platforms give parents a way to monitor a minor's posts and messages, finding that provision narrowly tailored enough to survive at the preliminary-injunction stage. That ruling is preliminary, not a final judgment, and concerns LB 383 only.

LB 1092, the adult-content age-verification law described on this page, was not a party to that lawsuit and was not affected by it. It remains in full effect, enforceable through private lawsuits, with no injunction of any kind against it. Treating LB 1092 as blocked because a Nebraska court order blocked part of LB 383 would be a mistake; the two laws regulate different conduct, sit in different chapters of the Nebraska Revised Statutes, and carry different enforcement mechanisms.

No Litigation Found Against LB 1092 Specifically

This research did not find a lawsuit against LB 1092 itself. That is an unconfirmed absence based on available trackers and search results rather than a docket search, and it should not be read as a guarantee that no such suit exists or could not be filed.

Related Resources

• Age Verification Laws by State
• Kentucky Age Verification Law
• North Dakota Age Verification Law
• Texas Age Verification Law

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Last updated: 2026-08-13.