Conversational AI Services Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9757 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9757

    To establish requirements and guidelines for conversational AI
                   services, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2026

Mrs. Miller-Meeks introduced the following bill; which was referred to
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL

    To establish requirements and guidelines for conversational AI
                   services, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Conversational AI Services Act''.

SEC. 2. CONVERSATIONAL AI SERVICES MINORS REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Requirements and Prohibitions.--
            (1) Requirements for minors.--An operator shall clearly and
        conspicuously disclose to a minor account holder that the minor
        account holder is interacting with artificial intelligence
        through either--
                    (A) a persistent visible disclaimer; or
                    (B) a disclaimer that appears--
                            (i) at the beginning of each interaction
                        between the conversational AI service of the
                        operator and a minor account holder; and
                            (ii) at least once every 3 hours of
                        continuous interaction between the
                        conversational AI service of the operator and
                        minor account holder.
            (2) Points and rewards prohibited.--An operator may not
        provide a minor account holder with points or similar rewards
        at unpredictable intervals with the intent to encourage
        increased engagement with the conversational AI service of the
        operator.
            (3) Safety measures required.--An operator shall institute
        reasonable measures to prevent the conversational AI service of
        the operator from doing any of the following for minor account
        holders:
                    (A) Producing visual depictions of sexually
                explicit material.
                    (B) Stating that the minor account holder should
                engage in sexually explicit conduct.
                    (C) Sexually objectifying the minor account holder.
            (4) Requirement for measure to prevent deception.--An
        operator shall institute reasonable measures for minor account
        holders to prevent the conversational AI service of the
        operator from generating statements that would lead a
        reasonable individual to believe that the individual is
        interacting with a human, including any of the following:
                    (A) Explicit claims that the conversational AI
                service is sentient or human.
                    (B) Statements that simulate emotional dependence.
                    (C) Statements that simulate a romantic interaction
                or a sexual innuendo.
                    (D) Role-playing an adult-minor romantic
                relationship.
            (5) Parental supervision.--An operator shall make available
        tools for a minor account holder and any parent or guardian of
        the minor account holder to manage the screen time and account
        settings of the minor account holder.
            (6) Consumer disclosures.--An operator shall clearly and
        conspicuously disclose, using a persistent visible disclaimer
        or a disclaimer that appears after every 3 hours of continuous
        interaction with the conversational AI service of the operator,
        that the conversational AI service is artificial intelligence
        if a reasonable individual interacting with the conversational
        AI service would believe that the individual is interacting
        with a human.
            (7) Suicide and self-harm protocol.--An operator shall
        adopt protocols for the conversational AI service of the
        operator for responding to user prompts regarding suicidal
        ideation or self-harm that includes making reasonable efforts
        to refer the user to a crisis service provider such as a
        suicide hotline, a crisis text line, or other appropriate
        crisis service.
            (8) Mental health care.--An operator may not knowingly and
        intentionally cause or program a conversational AI service to
        make a representation or statement that would lead a reasonable
        individual to believe that the conversational AI service is
        designed to provide professional psychology or behavioral
        health services for which an individual would require
        licensure.
    (b) Enforcement by Federal Trade Commission.--
            (1) Unfair or deceptive acts or practices.--A violation of
        subsection (a) or a regulation promulgated under such
        subsection shall be treated as a violation of a regulation
        under section 18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act
        (15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B)) regarding unfair or deceptive acts or
        practices.
            (2) Powers of commission.--The Federal Trade Commission
        shall enforce subsection (a) and any regulation promulgated
        under such subsection in the same manner, by the same means,
        and with the same jurisdiction, powers, and duties as though
        all applicable terms and provisions of the Federal Trade
        Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) were incorporated into
        and made a part of this section. Any person who violates such
        subsection or a regulation promulgated under such subsection
        shall be subject to the penalties and entitled to the
        privileges and immunities provided in the Federal Trade
        Commission Act.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Account holder.--The term ``account holder'' means an
        individual to which an account or profile to use a
        conversational AI service belongs.
            (2) Conversational ai service.--The term ``conversational
        AI service''--
                    (A) means an artificial intelligence, available by
                software application, web interface, or computer
                program, that is accessible to the general public and
                that has the primary purpose of simulating human
                conversation and interaction through text, audio
                communication, or visual communication; and
                    (B) does not include a software application, web
                interface, or computer program that is--
                            (i) primarily designed and marketed for
                        research and development purposes;
                            (ii) a feature within another software
                        application, web interface, or computer program
                        that does not have the primary purpose of
                        simulating human conversation and interaction
                        through text, audio communication, or visual
                        communication;
                            (iii) designed to provide outputs relating
                        to a narrow and discrete topic;
                            (iv) primarily designed and marketed for
                        commercial use by business entities to assist
                        customers in obtaining services or purchasing
                        goods from the business;
                            (v) functions as a speaker and voice
                        command interface or voice-activated virtual
                        assistant for an electronic device widely
                        available to consumers; and
                            (vi) used by a business solely for internal
                        purposes.
            (3) Minor.--The term ``minor'' means an individual an
        operator knows is, or is reasonably certain is, under 18 years
        of age.
            (4) Operator.--The term ``operator''--
                    (A) means a person who develops and makes a
                conversational AI service available to the public; and
                    (B) does not include a mobile device application
                store or a search engine solely because the mobile
                device application store or search engine provides
                access to a conversational AI service.
            (5) Sexually explicit conduct; visual depiction.--The terms
        ``sexually explicit conduct'' and ``visual depiction'' have the
        meaning given those terms in section 2256 of title 18, United
        States Code.
    (d) Applicability.--This section shall take effect one year after
the date of the enactment of this section.
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