Law / United States / Michigan
SB 760 (2026), Leading Ethical AI Development for Kids Act
Senate Bill 760, 2025-2026 Regular Session
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Proposed: draft date not recorded.
Before the second chamber, dated 29 April 2026, as of 13 September 2026.
An age-appropriate design code rule binding private bodies.
As of 13 September 2026.
Where it has got to
The text described here is Senate Bill 760 as passed by the Senate, substitute S-1. That print is SB 760 (S-1), published 29 April 2026.
Locally, this stage is House Committee on Communications and Technology.
The stage above is recorded at www.legislature.mi.gov.
Passed the Senate 20 to 17 on 29 April 2026 (roll call 66) and referred to the House Committee on Communications and Technology the same day, with no House action recorded since.
What this law does
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Would bar a chatbot operator from making an advanced chatbot, a generative AI system with a natural language interface that provides ongoing, adaptive responses, available to a minor if it could foreseeably undermine the minor's safety, wellbeing, or development, and would restrict data collection, companionship-simulating design features, and training the chatbot on a minor's inputs absent the minor's parent or guardian's written consent. Passed the Senate 20 to 17 on April 29, 2026; pending in the House Committee on Communications and Technology.
If you get it wrong
Private right of actionYes
Penalty structure
Sought by the Michigan Attorney General; each day of violation is a separate violation for purposes of the fine.
- Rule
- Per violation only
- As of
- 13 September 2026
- Currency
- USD
- Per violation unit
- Day
- Per violation amount
- 25,000
Over one month of continuous breach, USD 761,000.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Michigan Attorney General
What it reaches
Age threshold
18
Covered services
Chatbot operators that make an advanced chatbot, a generative AI system with a natural language interface providing ongoing, adaptive responses, available to a user, excluding narrowly tailored educational tools and basic customer-service systems.
Verification methods
Parental consent, Device signal
When LexLint raises it
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