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SB1521 • 2026

Artificial intelligence; definitions; requiring operators make certain disclosure; preventative measures for minor account holders; prohibitions; enforcement authority to Attorney General; civil penalty. Effective date.

Artificial intelligence; definitions; requiring operators make certain disclosure; preventative measures for minor account holders; prohibitions; enforcement authority to Attorney General; civil penalty. Effective date.

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Sponsor
Hamilton
Last action
2026-04-29
Official status
HAs read
Effective date
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Artificial intelligence; definitions; requiring operators make certain disclosure; preventative measures for minor account holders; prohibitions; enforcement authority to Attorney General; civil penalty. Effective date.

Artificial intelligence; definitions; requiring operators make certain disclosure; preventative measures for minor account holders; prohibitions; enforcement authority to Attorney General; civil penalty.

What This Bill Does

  • Artificial intelligence; definitions; requiring operators make certain disclosure; preventative measures for minor account holders; prohibitions; enforcement authority to Attorney General; civil penalty.
  • Effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1521 (House): Engrossed (4/7/2026) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1521 (House): Committee Amendment 1 (4/9/2026) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1521 (House): Committee Substitute (4/23/2026) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1521 (Senate): Introduced (1/21/2026) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1521 (Senate): Floor Amendment 1 (3/16/2026) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1521 (Senate): House Amendment to Senate Bill (5/13/2026)

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Amendments

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Plain English: SB1521 FULLAMD1 Cody Maynard-MJ 4/8/2026 1:54:41 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Cody Maynard Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend SB1521 Of the printed Bill Page 2 Section 1 Lines 22-2 Of the Engrossed Bill by deleting subparagraph d and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "d.

  • SB1521 FULLAMD1 Cody Maynard-MJ 4/8/2026 1:54:41 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Cody Maynard Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend SB1521 Of the printed Bill Page 2 Section 1 Lines 22-2 Of the Engrossed Bill by deleting subparagraph d and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "d.
  • is primarily designed and marketed for commercial use by business entities, including for purposes related to customer service, a business's operation purposes, product information and discovery, managing existing services or goods purchased from the business, scheduling, billing and payment, productivity and analysis related to source information, internal research, or technical assistance," On Page 3, Section 1, Line 18, by inserting after the words "not include" and before the words "an app store" the following language: ", an internet service provider,"

Plain English: Req.

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  • 3806 Page 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 STATE OF OKLAHOMA 2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026) FLOOR SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL NO.
  • 1521 By: Hamilton of the Senate and Maynard of the House FLOOR SUBSTITUTE [ artificial intelligence - chatbots - user account - protections - minors - information - enforcement - penalty - codification - effective date ] BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: SECTION 1.

Plain English: Filed

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-29 House

    Engrossed, signed, to Senate

  2. 2026-04-29 Senate

    HAs read

  3. 2026-04-28 House

    General Order

  4. 2026-04-28 House

    Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 90 Nays: 0

  5. 2026-04-28 House

    Referred for engrossment

  6. 2026-04-15 House

    CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Commerce and Economic Development Oversight Committee

  7. 2026-04-06 House

    Policy recommendation to the Commerce and Economic Development Oversight committee; Do Pass Government Modernization and Technology

  8. 2026-03-30 House

    Second Reading referred to Commerce and Economic Development Oversight

  9. 2026-03-30 House

    Referred to Government Modernization and Technology

  10. 2026-03-24 Senate

    Engrossed to House

  11. 2026-03-24 House

    First Reading

  12. 2026-03-23 Senate

    General Order, Amended by Floor Substitute

  13. 2026-03-23 Senate

    Title restored

  14. 2026-03-23 Senate

    Measure passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 0

  15. 2026-03-23 Senate

    Referred for engrossment

  16. 2026-03-02 Senate

    Coauthored by Representative Maynard (principal House author)

  17. 2026-02-24 Senate

    Placed on General Order

  18. 2026-02-19 Senate

    Reported Do Pass as amended Technology and Telecommunications committee; CR filed

  19. 2026-02-19 Senate

    Title stricken

  20. 2026-02-03 Senate

    Second Reading referred to Technology and Telecommunications

  21. 2026-02-02 Senate

    First Reading

  22. 2026-02-02 Senate

    Authored by Senator Hamilton

Official Summary Text

Artificial intelligence; definitions; requiring operators make certain disclosure; preventative measures for minor account holders; prohibitions; enforcement authority to Attorney General; civil penalty. Effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1521 (House): Engrossed (4/7/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1521 (House): Committee Amendment 1 (4/9/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1521 (House): Committee Substitute (4/23/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1521 (Senate): Introduced (1/21/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1521 (Senate): Floor Amendment 1 (3/16/2026)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for SB 1521 (Senate): House Amendment to Senate Bill (5/13/2026)

Current Bill Text

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ENGROSSED HOUSE AMENDMENT
TO
ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO. 1521 By: Hamilton of the Senate

and

Maynard of the House

An Act relating to artificial intelligence; defining
terms; requiring operators make certain disclosure;
directing operators to institute certain preventative
measures for minor account holders; prohibiting
operators from allowing a conversational AI service
to make certain statement; requiring operators to
adopt certain protocol to respond to certain prompts
from users; granting enforcement authority to the
Attorney General; establishing certain civil penalty;
allowing the Attorney General to promulgate rules for
the enforcement of this act; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date.

AMENDMENT NO. 1. Strike the title, enacting clause, and entire bill
and insert:

"An Act relating to artificial intelligence; defining
terms; requiring operators make certain disclosure;
directing operators to institute certain preventative
measures for minor account holders; prohibiting
operators from allowing a conversational AI service
to make certain statement; requiring operators to
adopt certain protocol to respond to certain prompts
from users; granting enforcement authority to the
Attorney General; establishing certain civil penalty;
allowing the Attorney General to promulgate rules for
the enforcement of this act; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date.

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 301 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
As used in this act:
1. “Account holder” means an individual who has an account or
profile to use a conversational AI service;
2. “App” means a software application or electronic service
that a user may run or direct on a mobile device, including
preinstalled applications;
3. “App store” means a publicly available website, software
application, or electronic service that allows account holders to
download apps from third-party developers onto a mobile device;
4. “App store provider” means a person who owns, operates, or
controls an app store that allows individuals in this state to
download apps onto a mobile device;
5. “Conversational AI service” means a generative artificial
intelligence system offered as a software application, web
interface, or computer program that is accessible to the general
public and that is marketed or optimized to meet a user’s emotional
or social needs by simulating interpersonal companionship, emotional
attachment, or romantic human conversation and interaction through
sustained textual, visual, or aural communication. Such term shall
not include an application, web interface, or computer program that:

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a. is primarily designed and marketed for use by
developers or researchers,
b. is a feature within another software application, web
interface, or computer program that is not a
conversational AI service, such as a video game,
c. is designed to provide outputs relating to a narrow
and discrete topic,
d. is primarily designed and marketed for commercial use
by business entities, including for purposes related
to customer service, a business's operation purposes,
product information and discovery, managing existing
services or goods purchased from the business,
scheduling, billing and payment, productivity and
analysis related to source information, internal
research, or technical assistance,
e. functions as a text, voice, or voice-activated virtual
assistant or command interface for a consumer
electronic device, or
f. is used by a business solely for internal purposes;
6. “Generative artificial intelligence system” means a
computer-based system that uses machine learning or similar
techniques involving large language models or deep learning models
trained on one or more datasets and that is intended to generate,
with some degree of autonomy, synthetic content, including, but not

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limited to, images, videos, audio, text, and other digital content,
that emulates the structure and characteristics of such datasets;
7. “Minor account” means an account which has a known minor
account holder;
8. “Operator” means a person who owns, controls, and makes
available a conversational AI service to the public. The term shall
not include, an Internet service provider, an app store provider or
search engine solely because the app store provider or search engine
provides access to a conversational AI service; and
9. “Sexually explicit conduct” has the same meaning as defined
in subsection C of Section 1024.1 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma
Statutes.
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 302 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. An operator shall clearly and conspicuously disclose to a
minor account holder that he or she is interacting with a
conversational AI service and is not interacting with a natural
person:
1. With a constantly visible disclaimer; or
2. At the beginning of each session and appearing at least
every thirty (30) minutes in a continuous conversational AI service
interaction.

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B. For minor account holders, an operator shall institute
reasonable measures to prevent the conversational AI service from
generating statements that would lead a reasonable person to believe
that he or she is interacting with a natural person, including:
1. Explicit claims that the conversational AI service is
sentient or human;
2. Statements that simulate emotional dependence;
3. Statements that simulate romantic or sexual innuendos; or
4. Role-playing of adult-minor romantic relationships.
C. 1. An operator shall not provide a minor account holder
with points or similar rewards at unpredictable intervals with the
intent to encourage increased engagement with the conversational AI
service.
2. An operator shall offer tools for a minor account holder’s
parent or legal guardian to manage the minor account holder’s
privacy and account settings.
D. An operator shall not knowingly or intentionally cause or
program a conversational AI service to make any representation or
statement that explicitly indicates that the conversational AI
service is designed to provide professional mental or behavioral
health care.
E. An operator shall adopt a protocol for the conversational AI
service to respond to a user prompt regarding suicidal ideation or

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self-harm, which shall include making reasonable efforts to provide
a response that refers the user to crisis service providers.
SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 303 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. In the case of a violation of Section 2 of this act, the
Attorney General may bring a civil action in the district court of
Oklahoma County or a district court in the county in which the
violation occurred to obtain civil penalties under subsection B of
this section.
B. Any operator who violates the provisions of this act shall
be subject to a civil penalty of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00)
per violation not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($500,000.00) per covered entity.
C. The Attorney General may promulgate any rules necessary to
enforce the provisions of this act.
D. Nothing in this act shall be construed to create liability
for the developer of a conversational AI which is made available to
the public by a separate operator.
SECTION 4. This act shall become effective July 1, 2027."

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Passed the House of Representatives the 28th day of April, 2026.

Presiding Officer of the House of
Representatives

Passed the Senate the ____ day of __________, 2026.

Presiding Officer of the Senate

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ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 1521 By: Hamilton of the Senate

and

Maynard of the House

An Act relating to artificial intelligence; defining
terms; requiring operators make certain disclosure;
directing operators to institute certain preventative
measures for minor account holders; prohibiting
operators from allowing a conversational AI service
to make certain statement; requiring operators to
adopt certain protocol to respond to certain prompts
from users; granting enforcement authority to the
Attorney General; establishing certain civil penalty;
allowing the Attorney General to promulgate rules for
the enforcement of this act; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 5. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 301 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
As used in this act:
1. “Account holder” means an individual who has an account or
profile to use a conversational AI service;
2. “App” means a software application or electronic service
that a user may run or direct on a mobile device, including
preinstalled applications;

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3. “App store” means a publicly available website, software
application, or electronic service that allows account holders to
download apps from third-party developers onto a mobile device;
4. “App store provider” means a person who owns, operates, or
controls an app store that allows individuals in this state to
download apps onto a mobile device;
5. “Conversational AI service” means a generative artificial
intelligence system offered as a software application, web
interface, or computer program that is accessible to the general
public and that is marketed or optimized to meet a user’s emotional
or social needs by simulating interpersonal companionship, emotional
attachment, or romantic human conversation and interaction through
sustained textual, visual, or aural communication. Such term shall
not include an application, web interface, or computer program that:
a. is primarily designed and marketed for use by
developers or researchers,
b. is a feature within another software application, web
interface, or computer program that is not a
conversational AI service, such as a video game,
c. is designed to provide outputs relating to a narrow
and discrete topic,
d. is primarily designed and marketed for commercial use
business entities, including for purposes related to
customer service product information and discovery,

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scheduling, billing and payment, or technical
assistance,
e. functions as a text, voice, or voice-activated virtual
assistant or command interface for a consumer
electronic device, or
f. is used by a business solely for internal purposes;
6. “Generative artificial intelligence system” means a
computer-based system that uses machine learning or similar
techniques involving large language models or deep learning models
trained on one or more datasets and that is intended to generate,
with some degree of autonomy, synthetic content, including, but not
limited to, images, videos, audio, text, and other digital content,
that emulates the structure and characteristics of such datasets;
7. “Minor account” means an account which has a known minor
account holder;
8. “Operator” means a person who owns, controls, and makes
available a conversational AI service to the public. The term shall
not include an app store provider or search engine solely because
the app store provider or search engine provides access to a
conversational AI service; and
9. “Sexually explicit conduct” has the same meaning as defined
in subsection C of Section 1024.1 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma
Statutes.

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SECTION 6. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 302 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. An operator shall clearly and conspicuously disclose to a
minor account holder that he or she is interacting with a
conversational AI service and is not interacting with a natural
person:
1. With a constantly visible disclaimer; or
2. At the beginning of each session and appearing at least
every thirty (30) minutes in a continuous conversational AI service
interaction.
B. For minor account holders, an operator shall institute
reasonable measures to prevent the conversational AI service from
generating statements that would lead a reasonable person to believe
that he or she is interacting with a natural person, including:
1. Explicit claims that the conversational AI service is
sentient or human;
2. Statements that simulate emotional dependence;
3. Statements that simulate romantic or sexual innuendos; or
4. Role-playing of adult-minor romantic relationships.
C. 1. An operator shall not provide a minor account holder
with points or similar rewards at unpredictable intervals with the
intent to encourage increased engagement with the conversational AI
service.

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2. An operator shall offer tools for a minor account holder’s
parent or legal guardian to manage the minor account holder’s
privacy and account settings.
D. An operator shall not knowingly or intentionally cause or
program a conversational AI service to make any representation or
statement that explicitly indicates that the conversational AI
service is designed to provide professional mental or behavioral
health care.
E. An operator shall adopt a protocol for the conversational AI
service to respond to a user prompt regarding suicidal ideation or
self-harm, which shall include making reasonable efforts to provide
a response that refers the user to crisis service providers.
SECTION 7. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 303 of Title 75A, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. In the case of a violation of Section 2 of this act, the
Attorney General may bring a civil action in the district court of
Oklahoma County or a district court in the county in which the
violation occurred to obtain civil penalties under subsection B of
this section.
B. Any operator who violates the provisions of this act shall
be subject to a civil penalty of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00)
per violation not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($500,000.00) per covered entity.

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C. The Attorney General may promulgate any rules necessary to
enforce the provisions of this act.
D. Nothing in this act shall be construed to create liability
for the developer of a conversational AI which is made available to
the public by a separate operator.
SECTION 8. This act shall become effective July 1, 2027.
Passed the Senate the 23rd day of March, 2026.

Presiding Officer of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the ____ day of __________,
2026.

Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives