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ENGROSSED HOUSE
BILL NO. 3544 By: Maynard, Hildebrant, Olsen,
Pae, Bashore, and Stark of
the House
and
Seifried of the Senate
An Act relating to technology; defining terms;
directing deployers to ensure social artificial
intelligence companions are not knowingly made
available to minors; permitting lawful access by
adults; directing deployers to implement protocols to
prioritize safety and well-being of users;
establishing civil penalties; granting the attorney
general rulemaking authority; providing for
noncodification; providing for codification; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
The Legislature finds that:
1. Artificial intelligence systems designed to simulate
sustained interpersonal companionship or emotional attachment may
present unique risks to minors due to their developmental
vulnerability to parasocial bonding;
2. The State of Oklahoma has a compelling interest in
protecting the health, safety, and well-being of minors; and
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3. This act is narrowly tailored to restrict access by minors
to social AI companions while preserving lawful access by adults and
general conversational artificial intelligence systems.
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 10 of Title 75A, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
As used in this act:
1. "Artificial intelligence" means engineered or machine
learning-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and that
can, for explicit or implicit objectives, infer from the input it
receives how to generate outputs that can influence physical or
virtual environments.
2. "Social AI companion" means an artificial intelligence
system primarily designed or marketed to simulate sustained
interpersonal companionship and emotional attachment or romantic
interaction with a user as the system's core functionality. The
term "Social AI companion" does not include:
a. a system used solely for customer service, business
operations, productivity, analysis related to source
information, internal purposes, research purposes, or
technical assistance,
b. a stand-alone consumer electronic device that
incorporates a speaker or voice or text command
interface, acts as a virtual assistant, and does not
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sustain a relationship across multiple interactions
and generate outputs intended to create emotional
attachment with the user,
c. a search engine feature that provides information in
response to user queries and is not designed or
marketed to simulate companionship,
d. a system designed to provide outputs relating to a
narrow and discrete functional topic and not primarily
intended to simulate interpersonal companionship,
e. a system that is not primarily designed or marketed
for companionship where the developer does not control
the specific deployment context in which the system
interacts with end users, or
f. a general-purpose artificial intelligence system that
is not primarily designed or marketed to simulate
interpersonal companionship, including systems used
for education, counseling, research, productivity, or
professional assistance.
3. "Deployer" means any person, partnership, corporation, or
governmental entity that operates, controls, or makes available a
social AI companion to users in this state. A deployer does not
include a mobile application store, search engine, Internet service
provider, or provider of general-purpose artificial intelligence
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models solely because such entity provides access to, hosts, or
transmits a system developed or controlled by another person.
4. "Minor" means a person who is under eighteen (18) years of
age.
5. "User" means a person who interacts with a social AI
companion.
SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 11 of Title 75A, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Each deployer:
1. Shall not knowingly, or under circumstances where the
deployer reasonably should know, make a social AI companion
available to a minor; and
2. Shall implement reasonable measures designed to prevent
minors from accessing a social AI companion.
B. Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict
lawful access to such systems by adults.
SECTION 4. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 12 of Title 75A, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A deployer shall adopt a protocol for a social AI companion to
respond to user prompts indicating suicidal ideation or threats of
self-harm that includes, but is not limited to, making reasonable
efforts to provide a response to the user that refers them to crisis
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service providers such as a suicide hotline, crisis text line, or
other appropriate crisis services.
SECTION 5. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 13 of Title 75A, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Any deployer that violates this act shall be subject to an
injunction and disgorgement of profits directly attributable to the
violation of this act, and shall be liable for a civil penalty of
not more than Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) for each
violation or Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($7,500.00) for
each intentional violation, which shall be assessed and recovered in
a civil action brought by the Attorney General. Each day a
violation continues constitutes a separate violation.
B. The Attorney General may promulgate any rules necessary to
enforce the provisions of this act.
SECTION 6. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
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Passed the House of Representatives the 25th day of March, 2026.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
Passed the Senate the ___ day of __________, 2026.
Presiding Officer of the Senate