Law / United States / Idaho
Conversational AI Safety Act
Idaho Code sections 48-2201 to 48-2205
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In force in 288 days, effective 1 July 2027.
An AI transparency rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- If you operate a conversational AI service (an application, web interface, or program accessible to the public that primarily simulates human conversation through text, visual, or aural communication) and a reasonable person could be misled into believing they are interacting with a human, clearly and conspicuously disclose that the service is artificial intelligence.
- Adopt a protocol for the service to respond to user prompts about suicidal ideation, including reasonable efforts to refer users to crisis services such as a suicide hotline or crisis text line, and do not cause the service to represent that it provides professional mental or behavioral health care.
- For a minor account holder, disclose the AI's non-human status either as a persistent visible disclaimer or at the start of each session and at least every three hours; do not use unpredictable reward mechanics to increase engagement; take reasonable measures against sexually explicit content directed at the minor and against statements suggesting the AI is sentient, human, romantically or sexually interested, or emotionally dependent; and offer account and privacy management tools to minors and to the parents or guardians of those under thirteen.
- This chapter does not take effect until July 1, 2027, and creates no private right of action; violations are enforced exclusively by the Idaho Attorney General, and an AI model's developer is not liable for a third-party operator's violation.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionNo
Penalty structure
The operator is liable for whichever is greater: the per-violation civil penalty, capped in the aggregate at $500,000 per operator, or actual damages. Not yet in force; the chapter takes effect July 1, 2027.
- Rule
- Per violation only
- As of
- 6 September 2026
- Currency
- USD
- Fixed cap
- 500,000
- Per violation unit
- Violation
- Per violation amount
- 1,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Idaho Attorney General
What it reaches
Obligation class
Content labelling, Design code
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
An operator, a person who makes a conversational AI service (an artificial intelligence application, web interface, or program accessible to the general public that primarily simulates human conversation through text, visual, or aural communication, with exceptions for developer or research tools, features that are not themselves a conversational AI service, business-internal or business-to-business tools, voice assistants for consumer electronics, and enterprise-only platforms) available to the public, must clearly and conspicuously disclose that the service is artificial intelligence if a reasonable person could otherwise be misled into believing they are interacting with a human.
An operator must adopt a protocol for responding to user prompts about suicidal ideation, including referring users to crisis services, and may not cause the service to represent that it provides professional mental or behavioral health care.
For a minor account holder, an operator must give a persistent visible disclaimer, or disclose at the start of each session and at least every three hours, must not use unpredictable reward mechanics to increase engagement, must take reasonable measures against sexually explicit content and against statements suggesting the AI is sentient, human, romantically or sexually interested, or emotionally dependent, and must offer account and privacy management tools to minors and to the parents or guardians of those under thirteen.
A violation is subject to an injunction and a civil penalty of $1,000 per violation up to $500,000 per operator, or actual damages, whichever is greater, sought exclusively by the Attorney General; the Act creates no private right of action and does not make an AI model's developer liable for a third-party operator's violation. Enacted in 2026 as Senate Bill 1297 (Session Law Chapter 249), signed March 31, 2026, and effective July 1, 2027.
Title 48 Chapter 21 had already been claimed the same session by the Stop Harms from Addictive Social Media Act, so the live Idaho Statutes site carries this Act as Chapter 21 [22] and numbers its own sections 48-2201 to 48-2205, superseding the 48-2101 to 48-2105 numbering in the enacting bill's own text. A narrower 2025 predecessor limited to chatbot disclosure, House Bill 127, died in the House Business Committee.
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Read the law
official Idaho Statutes text, Idaho State Legislature website
enacted text confirmed against Senate Bill 1297's engrossed and signed session records