SB 1521

1  ENGROSSED HOUSE AMENDMENT
          TO
2  ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO. 1521        By: Hamilton of the Senate
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4Maynard of the House
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7An Act relating to artificial intelligence; defining
        terms; requiring operators make certain disclosure;
8directing operators to institute certain preventative
        measures for minor account holders; prohibiting
9operators from allowing a conversational AI service
        to make certain statement; requiring operators to
10adopt certain protocol to respond to certain prompts
        from users; granting enforcement authority to the
11Attorney General; establishing certain civil penalty;
        allowing the Attorney General to promulgate rules for
12the enforcement of this act; providing for
        codification; and providing an effective date.
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15 AMENDMENT NO. 1.   Strike the title, enacting clause, and entire bill
 and insert:
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17"An Act relating to artificial intelligence; defining
        terms; requiring operators make certain disclosure;
18directing operators to institute certain preventative
        measures for minor account holders; prohibiting
19operators from allowing a conversational AI service
        to make certain statement; requiring operators to
20adopt certain protocol to respond to certain prompts
        from users; granting enforcement authority to the
21Attorney General; establishing certain civil penalty;
        allowing the Attorney General to promulgate rules for
22the enforcement of this act; providing for
        codification; and providing an effective date.
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1  BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
2      SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified
3  in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 301 of Title 75A, unless there
4  is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
5      As used in this act:
6      1.   “Account holder” means an individual who has an account or
7  profile to use a conversational AI service;
8      2.   “App” means a software application or electronic service
9  that a user may run or direct on a mobile device, including
10 preinstalled applications;
11     3.   “App store” means a publicly available website, software
12 application, or electronic service that allows account holders to
13 download apps from third-party developers onto a mobile device;
14     4.   “App store provider” means a person who owns, operates, or
15 controls an app store that allows individuals in this state to
16 download apps onto a mobile device;
17     5.   “Conversational AI service” means a generative artificial
18 intelligence system offered as a software application, web
19 interface, or computer program that is accessible to the general
20 public and that is marketed or optimized to meet a user’s emotional
21 or social needs by simulating interpersonal companionship, emotional
22 attachment, or romantic human conversation and interaction through
23 sustained textual, visual, or aural communication.   Such term shall
24 not include an application, web interface, or computer program that:
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1a.   is primarily designed and marketed for use by
2developers or researchers,
3b.   is a feature within another software application, web
4interface, or computer program that is not a
5conversational AI service, such as a video game,
6c.   is designed to provide outputs relating to a narrow
7and discrete topic,
8d.   is primarily designed and marketed for commercial use
9by business entities, including for purposes related
10to customer service, a business's operation purposes,
11product information and discovery, managing existing
12services or goods purchased from the business,
13scheduling, billing and payment, productivity and
14analysis related to source information, internal
15research, or technical assistance,
16e.   functions as a text, voice, or voice-activated virtual
17assistant or command interface for a consumer
18electronic device, or
19f.   is used by a business solely for internal purposes;
20    6.   “Generative artificial intelligence system” means a
21 computer-based system that uses machine learning or similar
22 techniques involving large language models or deep learning models
23 trained on one or more datasets and that is intended to generate,
24 with some degree of autonomy, synthetic content, including, but not
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1  limited to, images, videos, audio, text, and other digital content,
2  that emulates the structure and characteristics of such datasets;
3     7.     “Minor account” means an account which has a known minor
4  account holder;
5     8.     “Operator” means a person who owns, controls, and makes
6  available a conversational AI service to the public.    The term shall
7  not include, an Internet service provider, an app store provider or
8  search engine solely because the app store provider or search engine
9  provides access to a conversational AI service; and
10    9.     “Sexually explicit conduct” has the same meaning as defined
11 in subsection C of Section 1024.1 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma
12 Statutes.
13    SECTION 2.       NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified
14 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 302 of Title 75A, unless there
15 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
16    A.     An operator shall clearly and conspicuously disclose to a
17 minor account holder that he or she is interacting with a
18 conversational AI service and is not interacting with a natural
19 person:
20    1.     With a constantly visible disclaimer; or
21    2.     At the beginning of each session and appearing at least
22 every thirty (30) minutes in a continuous conversational AI service
23 interaction.
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1      B.   For minor account holders, an operator shall institute
2  reasonable measures to prevent the conversational AI service from
3  generating statements that would lead a reasonable person to believe
4  that he or she is interacting with a natural person, including:
5      1.   Explicit claims that the conversational AI service is
6  sentient or human;
7      2.   Statements that simulate emotional dependence;
8      3.   Statements that simulate romantic or sexual innuendos; or
9      4.   Role-playing of adult-minor romantic relationships.
10     C.   1.   An operator shall not provide a minor account holder
11 with points or similar rewards at unpredictable intervals with the
12 intent to encourage increased engagement with the conversational AI
13 service.
14     2.   An operator shall offer tools for a minor account holder’s
15 parent or legal guardian to manage the minor account holder’s
16 privacy and account settings.
17     D.   An operator shall not knowingly or intentionally cause or
18 program a conversational AI service to make any representation or
19 statement that explicitly indicates that the conversational AI
20 service is designed to provide professional mental or behavioral
21 health care.
22     E.   An operator shall adopt a protocol for the conversational AI
23 service to respond to a user prompt regarding suicidal ideation or
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1  self-harm, which shall include making reasonable efforts to provide
2  a response that refers the user to crisis service providers.
3     SECTION 3.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified
4  in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 303 of Title 75A, unless there
5  is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
6     A.   In the case of a violation of Section 2 of this act, the
7  Attorney General may bring a civil action in the district court of
8  Oklahoma County or a district court in the county in which the
9  violation occurred to obtain civil penalties under subsection B of
10 this section.
11    B.   Any operator who violates the provisions of this act shall
12 be subject to a civil penalty of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00)
13 per violation not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
14 ($500,000.00) per covered entity.
15    C.   The Attorney General may promulgate any rules necessary to
16 enforce the provisions of this act.
17    D.   Nothing in this act shall be construed to create liability
18 for the developer of a conversational AI which is made available to
19 the public by a separate operator.
20    SECTION 4.   This act shall become effective July 1, 2027."
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1     Passed the House of Representatives the 28th day of April, 2026.
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1  ENGROSSED SENATE
 BILL NO. 1521  By: Hamilton of the Senate
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                                                   and
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                                            Maynard of the House
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6An Act relating to artificial intelligence; defining
          terms; requiring operators make certain disclosure;
7directing operators to institute certain preventative
          measures for minor account holders; prohibiting
8operators from allowing a conversational AI service
          to make certain statement; requiring operators to
9adopt certain protocol to respond to certain prompts
          from users; granting enforcement authority to the
10Attorney General; establishing certain civil penalty;
          allowing the Attorney General to promulgate rules for
11the enforcement of this act; providing for
          codification; and providing an effective date.
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14 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
15     SECTION 5.      NEW LAW      A new section of law to be codified
16 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 301 of Title 75A, unless there
17 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
18     As used in this act:
19     1.   “Account holder” means an individual who has an account or
20 profile to use a conversational AI service;
21     2.   “App” means a software application or electronic service
22 that a user may run or direct on a mobile device, including
23 preinstalled applications;
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1      3.   “App store” means a publicly available website, software
2  application, or electronic service that allows account holders to
3  download apps from third-party developers onto a mobile device;
4      4.   “App store provider” means a person who owns, operates, or
5  controls an app store that allows individuals in this state to
6  download apps onto a mobile device;
7      5.   “Conversational AI service” means a generative artificial
8  intelligence system offered as a software application, web
9  interface, or computer program that is accessible to the general
10 public and that is marketed or optimized to meet a user’s emotional
11 or social needs by simulating interpersonal companionship, emotional
12 attachment, or romantic human conversation and interaction through
13 sustained textual, visual, or aural communication.   Such term shall
14 not include an application, web interface, or computer program that:
15a.   is primarily designed and marketed for use by
16developers or researchers,
17b.   is a feature within another software application, web
18interface, or computer program that is not a
19conversational AI service, such as a video game,
20c.   is designed to provide outputs relating to a narrow
21and discrete topic,
22d.   is primarily designed and marketed for commercial use
23business entities, including for purposes related to
24customer service product information and discovery,
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1scheduling, billing and payment, or technical
2assistance,
3e.   functions as a text, voice, or voice-activated virtual
4assistant or command interface for a consumer
5electronic device, or
6f.   is used by a business solely for internal purposes;
7      6.   “Generative artificial intelligence system” means a
8  computer-based system that uses machine learning or similar
9  techniques involving large language models or deep learning models
10 trained on one or more datasets and that is intended to generate,
11 with some degree of autonomy, synthetic content, including, but not
12 limited to, images, videos, audio, text, and other digital content,
13 that emulates the structure and characteristics of such datasets;
14     7.   “Minor account” means an account which has a known minor
15 account holder;
16     8.   “Operator” means a person who owns, controls, and makes
17 available a conversational AI service to the public.   The term shall
18 not include an app store provider or search engine solely because
19 the app store provider or search engine provides access to a
20 conversational AI service; and
21     9.   “Sexually explicit conduct” has the same meaning as defined
22 in subsection C of Section 1024.1 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma
23 Statutes.
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1      SECTION 6.       NEW LAW      A new section of law to be codified
2  in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 302 of Title 75A, unless there
3  is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
4      A.    An operator shall clearly and conspicuously disclose to a
5  minor account holder that he or she is interacting with a
6  conversational AI service and is not interacting with a natural
7  person:
8      1.    With a constantly visible disclaimer; or
9      2.    At the beginning of each session and appearing at least
10 every thirty (30) minutes in a continuous conversational AI service
11 interaction.
12     B.    For minor account holders, an operator shall institute
13 reasonable measures to prevent the conversational AI service from
14 generating statements that would lead a reasonable person to believe
15 that he or she is interacting with a natural person, including:
16     1.    Explicit claims that the conversational AI service is
17 sentient or human;
18     2.    Statements that simulate emotional dependence;
19     3.    Statements that simulate romantic or sexual innuendos; or
20     4.    Role-playing of adult-minor romantic relationships.
21     C.    1.   An operator shall not provide a minor account holder
22 with points or similar rewards at unpredictable intervals with the
23 intent to encourage increased engagement with the conversational AI
24 service.
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1      2.   An operator shall offer tools for a minor account holder’s
2  parent or legal guardian to manage the minor account holder’s
3  privacy and account settings.
4      D.   An operator shall not knowingly or intentionally cause or
5  program a conversational AI service to make any representation or
6  statement that explicitly indicates that the conversational AI
7  service is designed to provide professional mental or behavioral
8  health care.
9      E.   An operator shall adopt a protocol for the conversational AI
10 service to respond to a user prompt regarding suicidal ideation or
11 self-harm, which shall include making reasonable efforts to provide
12 a response that refers the user to crisis service providers.
13     SECTION 7.     NEW LAW      A new section of law to be codified
14 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 303 of Title 75A, unless there
15 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
16     A.   In the case of a violation of Section 2 of this act, the
17 Attorney General may bring a civil action in the district court of
18 Oklahoma County or a district court in the county in which the
19 violation occurred to obtain civil penalties under subsection B of
20 this section.
21     B.   Any operator who violates the provisions of this act shall
22 be subject to a civil penalty of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00)
23 per violation not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
24 ($500,000.00) per covered entity.
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1     C.   The Attorney General may promulgate any rules necessary to
2  enforce the provisions of this act.
3     D.   Nothing in this act shall be construed to create liability
4  for the developer of a conversational AI which is made available to
5  the public by a separate operator.
6     SECTION 8.   This act shall become effective July 1, 2027.
7     Passed the Senate the 23rd day of March, 2026.
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