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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 872
H.P. 558 House of Representatives, March 4, 2025
An Act to Ensure Determinations Made by the State Are Free from
Unethical, Unsafe or Illegal Interference by Artificial Intelligence
Reference to the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology suggested and ordered
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative FRIEDMANN of Bar Harbor.
Page 1 - 132LR0829(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §1977 is enacted to read:
3§1977. Artificial intelligence software
41. Office responsible for artificial intelligence software. The office shall create,
5 maintain and ensure the use of a list of approved artificial intelligence software or systems
6 for procurement and use by an agency, administrator, agent, employee or subcontractor of
7 the State.
82. Purchase and use of software employing artificial intelligence. The State,
9 including an agency, administrator, agent, employee or subcontractor of the State, may not
10 purchase or use software employing artificial intelligence unless the software:
11 A. Demonstrably conforms to ethical, legal and safety standards that ensure the
12 software can provide explicable and transparent decision making that guarantees that
13 the State maintains the sovereign, intentional control of the behavior of the software to
14 enable the State to fully comply with constitutional and legal mandates; and
15 B. Guarantees that a resident affected by a decision made by the State with the
16 assistance of the software is afforded the ability to secure due process and has an
17 accessible and affordable way to understand, review and appeal the decision.
183. Office to seek collaboration on use of artificial intelligence. The office shall
19 remain current on the status and advancement of artificial intelligence, in collaboration
20 with the Federal Government, other states, municipalities, other national governments and
21 other public and private organizations, to maintain access to ethical, legal, safe and
22 affordable forms of artificial intelligence to allow the State and residents of the State to:
23 A. Effectively fulfill governmental and civic obligations;
24 B. Guarantee rights under the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Maine
25 and state and federal laws, rules and regulations; and
26 C. Advance economic, cultural and environmental well-being.
274. Ethical, legal and safety standards. The Chief Information Officer shall establish
28 ethical, legal and safety standards under this section by rule pursuant to section 1982,
29 subsection 8.
30SUMMARY
31 This bill requires the Office of Information Technology within the Department of
32 Administrative and Financial Services to be responsible for creating, maintaining and
33 ensuring the use of a list of approved artificial intelligence software or systems for
34 procurement and use by the State. The bill also prohibits the purchase and use of artificial
35 intelligence software by the State unless the State maintains the sovereign, intentional
36 control of the behavior of the software to enable the State to fully comply with
37 constitutional and legal mandates and secures the right to due process by guaranteeing that
38 residents affected by a decision made by the State with the assistance of the software have
39 an accessible and affordable way to understand, review and appeal the decision.
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