Protecting Small Businesses from Predatory Website Lawsuits Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 5
- Latest action
- Feb 3, 2026
What it does
The bill would amend the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to require individuals to exhaust administrative remedies—including notifying the website or app owner and waiting for a Department of Justice investigation—before filing a lawsuit over alleged accessibility failures of consumer-facing websites or mobile apps owned by private entities. It applies to private owners or operators of public-facing commercial websites and mobile applications, mandating a notice period, a 180-day window for compliance, and a 360-day DOJ investigation timeline, after which failure to act is treated as a compliance determination. The goal is to reduce predatory lawsuits by ensuring businesses have a…
AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.
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