KY HB 641
died on adjournmentAN ACT relating to mental health chatbots.
Kentucky · 2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did KY HB 641 pass?
No. KY HB 641 died when the 2026 Regular Session adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2026-02-23): to Small Business & Information Technology (H)
What is KY HB 641 about?
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to protect consumers using mental health chatbots; define terms; establish prohibitions and exceptions for how suppliers are to handle individually identifiable health information; prohibit supplier from advertising a specific product or service unless that product or service is clearly and conspicuously disclosed; require supplier to clearly and conspicuously disclose that the mental health chatbot is artificial intelligence and provide when this disclosure should appear; provide an affirmative defense to liability and list requirements to achieve that defense; grant enforcement authority to the Attorney General; include severability provision; provide that the Act may be cited as the Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Act.
Who sponsors KY HB 641?
V. Grossl is the primary sponsor of KY HB 641.
Description
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to protect consumers using mental health chatbots; define terms; establish prohibitions and exceptions for how suppliers are to handle individually identifiable health information; prohibit supplier from advertising a specific product or service unless that product or service is clearly and conspicuously disclosed; require supplier to clearly and conspicuously disclose that the mental health chatbot is artificial intelligence and provide when this disclosure should appear; provide an affirmative defense to liability and list requirements to achieve that defense; grant enforcement authority to the Attorney General; include severability provision; provide that the Act may be cited as the Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Act.
- Introduced
- 2026-02-13
- Latest action
- 2026-02-23 — to Small Business & Information Technology (H)
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- V. Grosslprimary
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-02-23
to Small Business & Information Technology (H)
referral-committee
2026-02-13
to Committee on Committees (H)
referral-committee
2026-02-13
introduced in House
introduction
Versions
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Documents
Votes
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Related bills
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