PanamaProyecto de Ley 181 (ex Anteproyecto 162), Marco Legal de la Inteligencia Artificial (rechazado)
Proyecto de Ley No. 181 de 2024 (Anteproyecto de Ley No. 162) Que Establece el Marco Legal, la Promoción y Desarrollo de la Inteligencia Artificial en la República de Panamá
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Withdrawn: no longer proceeding.
An AI risk obligations rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- This bill was rejected at First Debate and never became law, so it imposes no duty.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Governance, DPIA, Prohibition, Licensing
Who checks it
Audit expectation
periodic
Who audits it
Regulator
What this law does
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This proposal set out a general legal framework for artificial intelligence, defining an AI system broadly and classifying AI uses into four risk tiers (unacceptable, high, limited and minimal), prohibiting the introduction or operation of an unacceptable-risk system, and requiring a developer or provider of a system in a non-minimal risk tier to hold a risk-level certification issued by the Dirección General de Normas y Tecnología Industrial for private-sector applications or the Autoridad Nacional para la Innovación Gubernamental for public-sector ones.
It would have created a National AI Policy led by SENACYT, a High-Level AI Commission, and an audit and supervision function at the Dirección General de Comercio Electrónico, and directed ANTAI to issue guidelines on protecting sensitive and personal data processed by AI systems. Diputado Manuel Cheng Peñalba presented it to the Asamblea Nacional on 28 August 2024 as Anteproyecto de Ley No. 162, and it was later filed as Proyecto de Ley No. 181.
The Comisión de Educación, Cultura y Deportes held its First Debate on the bill on 15 April 2026. The Commission had already approved a separate, unified bill addressing the same subject matter, Proyecto de Ley No. 588, earlier in that same session. The Commission then put this bill's own article 1 to a vote, and the article was voted down.
Under article 147 of the Asamblea's Reglamento Orgánico del Régimen Interno, rejecting an article at First Debate rejects the whole bill, so the proposal never became law.
When LexLint raises it
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