HB 635

As introduced: - Prohibits operators from making a "companion chatbot" available to minors if it is capable of encouraging or manipulating a minor user to engage in self-harm, suicidal ideation, violence, consumption of drugs or alcohol, or disordered eating, offering unlicensed mental health therapy, participating in an illegal activity, including the creation of child sexual abuse materials, engaging in sexual interactions, encouraging the minor to maintain secrecy about interactions or self-isolate, valdiating the minor over the user's safety, or optimizing engagement to supersede safety guardrails. - Requires operators to disclose that a chatbot is not human upon login and every 30 minutes. - Requires protocols for addressing suicidal ideation or self-harm by a user. - Prohibits training a companion chatbot's model with a minor's data without affirmative parental consent. - Requires reporting adverse incidents. - Establishes these provisions as the "Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Act" and makes violations a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.