Key FactsLawmakers who sponsored the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act and the Kids Online Safety Act made a last-minute push to include both pieces of legislation in the fiscal year 2023 funding plan unveiled this week, but neither bill made the final text, which is expected to pass by the end of the week.A coalition of human rights and LGBTQ advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, signed a letter expressing concerns that the Kids Online Safety Act would allow for too much leeway in filtering content and raised the possibility that the legislation could be “weaponized” for political purposes “to censor online resources and information for queer and trans youth, people seeking reproductive healthcare, and more.”News PegCongress is aiming to pass the fiscal year 2023 spending package, what’s known as the “omnibus” bill since it encompasses 12 pieces of legislation, by the end of the week in order to divert a government shutdown.Lawmakers reached an agreement on a deal that will fund the government through the rest of the current fiscal year, which ends September 30, earlier this week, despite pushback from Republicans who wanted to pass another short-term measure that would extend past January 1, when the party takes control of the House and would have more leverage to negotiate a full-year spending package.President Joe Biden, who has not commented on their exclusion from the fiscal 2023 spending package, also urged Congress to “strengthen privacy protections, ban targeted advertising to children (and) demand tech companies stop collecting personal data on our children” in his State of the Union speech this year.That bill, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, has bipartisan support in the House and moved out of committee in July, but outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) never put the legislation up for a vote, and expressed concerns that it could preempt laws in some states where restrictions were already tighter than what the federal law proposed, such as her home state of California."