Texas GOP state Rep. Jared Patterson told Newsmax on Tuesday that the bill the state House of Representatives advanced last month restricting social media for minors would “put our kids’ mental health” at the forefront.

Texas House legislators last month advanced a bill that would ban children in the state from creating accounts on social media platforms and would require those platforms to impose age verification for new users.

Patterson told Newsmax’s “National Report” that “this is a real life situation. Our kids are killing themselves at a clip that we’ve never seen before in the history of our state, and it’s time that we put our kids’ mental health on the same level we do their physical well-being.”

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