Michigan
Does Michigan Have an Age Verification Law? (2026)
Michigan does not currently have an enacted law requiring adult websites to verify a visitor's age. Two different bills, SB 191 and HB 4429, are both still active in the Legislature, representing competing approaches to the same question.
Two Competing Bills, Neither Enacted
Michigan is not a state where the topic has gone quiet. Two separate bills are pending at once, representing two different regulatory models.
SB 191 would require a commercial entity operating a website where more than one-third of the content is mature or pornographic to use full identity-based or commercial age-verification methods before granting access, bar retention of identifying information, and give the Attorney General exclusive enforcement authority with a 45-day cure period before a formal action. Civil actions could reach up to $10,000 per violation. It was introduced and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs on March 20, 2025, and no further committee or floor action was recorded through this research.
HB 4429, introduced by five House Republicans (Brad Paquette, Jason Woolford, Jay DeBoyer, Gina Johnsen, and Joseph Fox), takes a different approach: a device-based, or age-signal, model that would place the age-verification duty on operating systems and app stores rather than on individual adult websites. It was introduced May 6, 2025, and has since been discharged from committee and re-referred multiple times, most recently on March 19, 2026, when it was sent back to the Communications and Technology Committee. That procedural movement shows engagement, not necessarily momentum toward passage; HB 4429 has not received a floor vote in either chamber.
The Federal and Multistate Backdrop
No federal law requires age verification for adult content; Congress has considered child-online-safety bills like the Kids Online Safety Act, but none has been signed into law. As of August 2026, twenty-seven states have enacted their own adult-content age-verification statutes, following the Supreme Court's 2025 decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton settling intermediate scrutiny as the applicable First Amendment standard. Several of those states, and several App Store Accountability Act states, use the same device-based model HB 4429 proposes; see the App Store Accountability Act states page for how that model works where it has already been enacted.
What This Means for Michigan Residents
Because Michigan has no adult-content age-verification statute yet, adult websites have no state-law reason to block Michigan visitors or require an age check before granting access. This research did not find Michigan on any published list of states that Aylo, Pornhub's parent company, currently geo-blocks; that finding rests on secondary aggregator reporting rather than a directly confirmed primary source.
This page reflects Michigan's status as of August 13, 2026, based on the Michigan Legislature's own bill-tracking records for SB 191 and HB 4429. Both remain live in the 2025-2026 session, so this page's snapshot could change before the session ends.
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Last updated: 2026-08-13.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there an age verification law in Michigan?
No. As of August 2026, Michigan has not enacted a law requiring adult websites to verify a visitor's age, though two bills, SB 191 and HB 4429, remain active in the Legislature.
What is the difference between SB 191 and HB 4429?
SB 191 would require adult websites themselves to verify visitor age directly, using ID-based or commercial verification. HB 4429 instead places the age-signal duty on device operating systems and app stores, a model closer to the App Store Accountability Acts enacted in other states.
Could Michigan still pass one of these bills?
Yes. Michigan's 2025-2026 session runs through the end of 2026, and HB 4429 in particular has seen committee activity as recently as March 2026. Neither bill has been formally defeated.
Is porn banned in Michigan?
No, and there is no age-verification requirement either. Adult content remains accessible in Michigan the same way it is in any other state without an enacted age-verification statute.
Updates
Independently fact-checked against the cited primary sources
Sources and References
- SB 191 (2025), Michigan Legislature, Bill Status(legislature.mi.gov).gov
- HB 4429 (2025), Michigan Legislature, Bill Status(legislature.mi.gov).gov
- Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, 606 U.S. 461 (2025), Opinion of the Court(supremecourt.gov).gov