Comment by State Health Planning and Development Agency

SHPDA strongly supports HB 1782-HD3-SD1, with comments. This bill establishes targeted safeguards to protect minors who interact with conversational AI services and AI companion systems. It requires clear disclosure that a minor is interacting with AI and not a human, creates protections against manipulative or deceptive design, restricts sexualized and self-harm-related content, requires parental tools and age assurance measures, and provides enforcement through the Attorney General, Office of Consumer Protection, and civil remedies. [...] HB 1782-HD3-SD1 sets common sense rules for AI companies to help keep kids safe. It requires protections against sexual content, messages that encourage self-harm, misleading crisis responses, and it gives parents more tools while making sure companies take steps to know when a user is a minor.