Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2671

Introduced
2/3/26  

Caption

Establishing the Kansas community harmed by AI technology act, mandating user accounts and age verification for AI chatbot access, classifying users by age, requiring parental consent for minors, blocking explicit content, protecting age information confidentiality, monitoring for suicidal ideation, informing users of AI interaction, requiring compliance guidance by 2027, outlining enforcement under consumer protection laws and providing safe harbor for compliant entities.

Impact

The proposed regulations in HB 2671 are expected to have significant implications for existing consumer protection laws. It emphasizes the importance of user safety in digital interactions, particularly for minors, by outlining clear compliance requirements for entities offering AI chatbot services. There is a focus on monitoring for mental health indicators, such as suicidal ideation, which could help safeguard vulnerable users when engaging with AI technology. By compelling companies to ensure safe interactions, the bill aims to foster a more responsible use of AI technology within the state.

Summary

House Bill 2671, known as the Kansas Community Harmed by AI Technology Act, seeks to regulate the use of AI chatbots by mandating user accounts and age verification. The bill classifies users by age, requiring parental consent for minors to access AI chatbots, thus focusing on protecting younger users from potential harms associated with AI interactions. Additionally, the bill seeks to block access to explicit content and ensure the confidentiality of users’ age information, addressing public concerns regarding privacy and safety in an increasingly digital environment.

Contention

While proponents argue that HB 2671 is a necessary step to safeguard children and ensure that AI technology is used responsibly, there are concerns regarding the feasibility of enforcing such age verification measures. Critics worry that the bill could unintentionally limit access to technology for legitimate users and infringe on privacy rights. The requirements for parental consent and content blocking may also present challenges for compliance among AI developers and service providers. Balancing innovation in AI technology with adequate consumer protections is shaping the debate surrounding this bill.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS SCR1601

Informing the Governor that the two houses of the Legislature are organized and ready to receive communications.

KS SB4

Requiring all advance voting ballots be returned by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS SCR1604

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property mobile homes.

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

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