As amended on 6/17/2026: - Requires companion chatbot operators to verify the age of users. - Requires operators to perform comprehensive risk assessments to identify child safety risks. - Requires operators to implement a documented crisis response protocol to reduce the risk that a companion chatbot generates content promoting suicidal ideation, suicide, or self-harm to a child user. - Requires safeguards for child users that include usage reminders and disclosures, age-appropriate risk prompts, and other protective design features. - Requires parent-controlled default settings that limit chatbot use by children, including ephemeral conversations by default, restricted notification hours, and caps of one hour per session and two hours per day. - Requires a child-friendly notice mechanism to that the user is interacting with AI, with periodic reminders during extended use. - Requires measures that prevent the chatbot from encouraging self-harm, suicidal ideation, consumption of narcotics or alcohol, disordered eating, or harm to others, offering mental health treatment, engaging in sexual or abusive content, manipulating or discouraging healthy behavior, misrepresenting themselves as human, or promoting spending, advertising, or overly sycophantic interactions with child users. - Requires offering parental controls. - Prohibits operators from targeting ads to children, misusing children’s personal data, and using manipulative design that interferes with user or parental choice or access to safety and privacy controls. - The original bill made nonsubstantive changes, but the bill was amended on 3/19/2026 to include substantive provisions. The bill amended penalties for chatbots until the 3/25/2026 amendment replaced those provisions with chatbot regulation provisions. - The 4/27/2026 amendment clarifies "covered harm", deletes definition of "personalize", and modifies age verification procedures. - The 6/17/2026 amendment exempts certain educational and employer-related chatbots.
| Date | Chamber | Action |
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Jun 23, 2026 | S | Hearing Scheduled - Judiciary |
Jun 17, 2026 | — | Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. |
Jun 16, 2026 | — | From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 15). |
Jun 15, 2026 | S | Hearing Scheduled - Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection |
Jun 3, 2026 | — | Referred to Coms. on P., D.T., & C.P. and JUD. |
May 27, 2026 | — | In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. |
May 26, 2026 | — | Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 8.) |
May 18, 2026 | — | Read second time. Ordered to third reading. |
| Last Action | Jun 17, 2026 |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Bill Type | Bill |
| Created | Mar 21, 2026 |
| Updated | Jun 18, 2026 |