ADVOCACY

The law requires AI companion chatbot platforms to disclose that AI chatbots are not human and implement safeguards for suicide/self-harm content, including crisis referrals.

Signed into law

Requires operators of AI companion chatbots to conduct annual child safety risk assessments, implement design and usage safeguards to mitigate risks to minors, and undergo independent audits of compliance. Establishes restrictions on harmful chatbot behaviors, including excessive sycophancy, emotional manipulation, and unsafe interactions with minors.

Passed Assembly Committee, referred to Appropriations

This bill would have banned AI companion chatbots for children if they could encourage harmful behaviors (e.g., self-harm, violence, substance use, eating disorders).

Vetoed

Requires AI companion platforms to disclose chatbots are non-human, implement self-harm response protocols, and restrict manipulative, sexual, and emotionally dependent interactions with minors. Enforced under the state's Consumer Protection Act, including a private right of action.

Signed into law

Requires AI companion platforms to disclose when users are interacting with AI, maintain suicide/self-harm detection and response protocols, restrict certain human-like, romantic, sexual, and emotionally dependent outputs for minors, and creates private right of action for users harmed by violations.

Enacted

Restrains covered chatbots from outputting sexually explicit content, simulating romantic relationships, and following engagement techniques, including excessive praise meant to deepen emotional attachment and reminders for a minor to return frequently.

Signed into law

Creates an AI Bill of Rights to protect Florida residents from harmful practices including a provision that requires parental consent for minors to use AI companions.

Passed in the Senate

Prohibits AI companion platforms from providing chatbots to minors unless it is foreseeable that the chatbot cannot encourage self-harm, offer mental health therapeutic advice, and have sexual interactions with the child.

Passed in the Senate

Establishes requirements to protect minors from AI companion platforms using addictive features and predatory data collection; to refine platform age verification for users; prohibits maintaining accounts for children without verifiable parental consent; creates a private right of action for platform violations.

Passed the House

Establishes safeguards, disclosure requirements, prevents minor use of AI companion chatbots, oversight, and penalties for interactions between minors and AI companion chatbots. Based on Human-like AI Framework.

Enrolled to the Governor

Requires conversational AI service operators to provide disclosures, restrict rewards and engagement features for minors, prevent sexually explicit content and emotional-dependence outputs for minors, and provide privacy and account-setting tools.

Passed the House

Prohibits covered chatbots from making explicit claims that simulate emotional dependence and requires frequent disclosures for minor account holders.

Passed the House

Prohibits minors from accessing human-like AI companions/social AI and requires age verification social artificial intelligence. Provides an exception for therapy chatbots if they have various controls in place; demonstrate through peer-review clinical trial data that the chatbot is beneficial for this use.

Passed the House but failed to advance in the Senate

Requires user account creation before accessing companion AI chatbots, age verification, parental account affiliation if the user is a minor and blocks the minor's access to AI chatbots that allow sexual language.

Introduced

Establishes 'reasonable' age verification requirements for AI chatbots and prohibits AI chatbots that can engage in sexual dialogue or encourage self-harm.

Advanced from Committee

Bans platforms from allowing a minor to access a companion chatbot for recreational, relational, or companion purposes; bans human-like AI chatbots and those that encourage emotional dependence.

Introduced

Prohibits an operator from making a companion chatbot available to a user unless it is incapable of encouraging suicide and self-harm; requires data privacy and transparency protocols; includes provisions for consumer protection. Based on Human-like AI Framework.

Failed to advance in committee

Requires that any chatbot operated or distributed by the deployer does not make human-like features available to minors; implement reasonable age verification systems. Based on Human-like AI Framework.

Failed to advance in committee

Requires that any chatbot operated or distributed by the deployer does not make human-like features available to minors; implement reasonable age verification systems. Based on Human-like AI Framework.

Advanced out of committee; amended into LB1083 but not brought to a floor vote

Requires AI chatbot deployers to implement reasonable age verification systems, verify the age of each user, and ensure that AI chatbots with human-like features are not available to minors. Based on Human-like AI Framework.

Introduced

Prohibits minors from recreational chatbot use and requires disclosure when interacting with AI. Provides civil penalties for violations.

In committee

Requires parental consent for minors to use AI companions; requires AI platforms to take reasonable action to prohibit AI chatbot behaviors that are harmful to minors.

Introduced

Restricts companion chatbots for children unless safety measures are in place to prevent language that encourages self-harm, sexual language, unwanted usage based on optimized engagement.

Introduced

Prohibits chatbot operators from providing unsafe chatbot features unless they determine the user is not a minor. Covered features include simulated companionship, sycophancy, sexual interactions, secrecy or isolation encouragement, and engagement optimization that overrides safety guardrails.

Introduced

Requires covered chatbots to provide a limited-access mode, verify users' age, require parental consent for minors to access restricted features.

Passed Labor, Commerce and Industry