[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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