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Utah Code 13-72b-101 et seq.
Enacted
Effective 2027-01-01
le.utah.gov chapter landing page and version metadata (existence and effective date)
Reviewer verification confirms H.B. 438 (2026 General Session), 'Artificial Intelligence Amendments,' enacts new Chapter 72b, 'Companion Chatbot Safety Act,' at Section 4 of the bill; a version of the bill text (3rd/5th substitute) requires operators of companion chatbots to disclose non-human status, comply with the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, meet additional safety and reporting requirements for minor users, and carries a safe harbor provision, structurally parallel to Chapters 75 and 72a. H.B. 438 passed the House 68-1 (2026-02-20) and the Senate 26-1, and was signed into law; the chapter now exists on Utah's live code site. The live code site's own version tag, C13-72b_2026050620270101, gives an effective date of 2027-01-01, which this review treats as controlling over an earlier substitute's internal effective-date clause (2026-08-01), since the code site reflects the bill as finally enacted. The specific disclosure-provision section number and full operative text were not independently re-verified against the final chaptered text in this review. Because the effective date is in the future relative to this document's as-of date, the status is enacted, not in_effect.
Utah Code 13-72a-203
In effect
Effective 2025-05-07
official Utah Code, live codified text, le.utah.gov, confirmed by direct fetch
A supplier of a mental health chatbot, an AI system that simulates the kind of confidential conversation a licensed mental health therapist would have and that the supplier represents or a reasonable person would believe can provide therapy, must cause the chatbot to clearly and conspicuously disclose it is artificial intelligence and not human. The disclosure must occur before the user can access the chatbot's features, at the start of any interaction after seven days of non-use, and any time the user asks whether AI is being used. This duty is proactive and recurring, materially stronger than the general Chapter 75 duty, and unamended since enactment even though adjoining definitions and enforcement sections were touched in the 2026 session.
Utah Code 13-75-103
In effect
Effective 2025-05-07
enrolled bill text, Utah State Legislature (official)
A supplier using generative AI to interact with an individual in a consumer transaction must disclose that the individual is interacting with generative AI, but only if the individual makes a clear and unambiguous request. An individual in a state-regulated occupation must proactively and prominently disclose generative AI use, verbally or in writing as applicable, but only where the interaction meets the statute's high-risk definition (collection of sensitive health, financial, or biometric information, or advice relied on for significant decisions). SB 226 repealed the prior, broader duty at Utah Code 13-2-12 (enacted by SB 149, 2024) outright and replaced it with this two-tier scheme, effective 2025-05-07. A safe harbor at 13-75-104 excuses a supplier whose generative AI clearly and conspicuously discloses its non-human nature throughout the interaction.
