SENATE BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
[First Reprint]
ASSEMBLY, No. 4302
with committee amendments
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: JANUARY 8, 2026
The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Assembly Bill No. 4302 (1R).
As amended, this bill requires vloggers, including but not limited to, family members and caregivers, who operate vlogs on social media platforms for compensation and use minors in the vlog to compensate the minors. Under the bill, “vlog” means content shared on an online platform in exchange for compensation. The bill provides that a minor is considered employed by a vlogger both when actively participating in content and when passively featured in content under the provisions of the bill.
Specifically, the bill provides that a minor is considered employed by a vlogger when the following criteria are met at any time during the previous 12-month period:
(1) at least 30 percent of the vlogger's compensated video content produced within a 30-day period includes or features the likeness, name, or photograph of the minor. Content percentage is measured by the percentage of time the likeness, name, or photograph of the minor visually appears or is the subject of an oral narrative in a video segment, as compared to the total length of the segment; and
(2) the number of views received per video segment on any online platform meets the online platform's threshold for the generation of compensation or the vlogger receives actual compensation for video content equal to or greater than $0.10 per view.
The bill requires vloggers to follow all State laws concerning minor working hour requirements.
The bill requires a vlogger who is not the caregiver or family member of the minor to follow all applicable State wage, benefit, and tax laws.
The bill also provides that a vlogger who is a caregiver or family member of the minor is required to set aside gross earnings on the video content that includes or features the likeness, name, or photograph of the minor in a trust account to be preserved for the benefit of the minor upon reaching the age of majority, according to the following distribution:
(1) where only one minor meets the content threshold described in the bill, the percentage of total gross earnings on any video segment including the likeness, name, or photograph of the minor that is equal to or greater than half of the content percentage that includes the minor as described in the bill; or
(2) where more than one minor meets the content threshold described in the bill, and a video segment includes more than one of those minors, the percentage described in paragraph (1) above for all minors in any segment must be equally divided between the minors, regardless of differences in percentage of content provided by the individual minors.
The bill requires all vloggers who employ a minor to maintain certain records and to provide the records to the minor on an ongoing basis.
As amended and reported by the committee, Assembly Bill No. 4302 (1R) is identical to Senate Bill No. 3183 (1R), which was also amended and reported by the committee on this date.
COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS:
The committee amended the bill to:
(1) make its provisions applicable to all minors, not only those under 16;
(2) provide for different compensation, wage and hour, benefit, and tax treatment depending on whether the employer is a family member or caregiver or is not related to the minor;
(3) clarify that a minor who vlogs for personal enjoyment is not considered working as a vlogger under the bill;
(4) clarify that all applicable minor working hour laws apply to the bill;
(5) clarify that a minor is considered employed by a vlogger both when actively participating in content and when passively featured in content under the provisions of the bill; and
(6) make technical changes.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This bill is not certified as requiring a fiscal note.