Identity clarity
Recurring AI/not-human disclosure and resistance to identity ambiguity.
DisclosureCompanion Chatbot
Care AI Policy Map
A United States heat map of policy signals that shape non-clinical caregiving AI: companion chatbots, mental-health chatbots, AI therapy boundaries, consumer health data, healthcare AI disclosure, and high-risk AI governance.
Caregiving AI sits between ordinary chatbot law, health-data rules, companion safety, and therapy regulation. The map makes that split visible so the case for a national caregiving AI standard is concrete.
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Where regulation is moving
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No targeted rule captured
Adjacent proposal
Direct proposal
Binding adjacent rule
Direct enacted or scheduled rule
50 states plus DC; federal context below.
Official source preferred; tracker items are labeled.
Research map only. Not legal advice.
The laws are close to the issue, but not the whole standard.
State bills are converging on disclosure, minors, self-harm, therapy boundaries, and sensitive data. Caregiving AI needs those controls plus longitudinal relationship safety under family stress, class constraints, and real care decisions.
Crisis response
Self-harm detection, crisis referrals, escalation protocol, and public reporting.
Crisis SafetyMental Health Chatbot
Relationship boundaries
Controls for dependency cues, manipulative engagement, minors, and simulated intimacy.
Minor SafetyCompanion Chatbot
Data and oversight
Consumer health data limits, health AI transparency, impact assessment, and human review.
Consumer Health DataHealthcare AiHigh Risk AiData Governance
No single federal care AI standard yet.
Federal signals are split across chatbot/minor bills, health IT transparency, HIPAA cybersecurity, and sensitive data rules. That fragmentation is the policy argument for a national caregiving AI standard.
ProposedDirect care-adjacent
S.2714 CHAT Act
Federal proposal targeting companion AI chatbots used by minors, including restrictions on access and harmful dialogue.
ProposedDirect care-adjacent
S.3062 GUARD Act
Federal proposal defining AI companions and focusing on minors, non-human disclosure, age verification, and sexual-content harms.
ProposedDirect care-adjacent
H.R.6489 SAFE BOTs Act
Federal proposal including chatbot crisis-resource disclosures and a four-year longitudinal study of chatbot mental-health risks and benefits for minors.
Enactedadjacent
ONC HTI-1 algorithm transparency rule
Final rule updates health IT certification and includes algorithm transparency requirements for certified health IT.
Proposedcontext
HIPAA Security Rule cybersecurity NPRM
Proposed federal rule to strengthen cybersecurity requirements for electronic protected health information.
Enactedcontext
DOJ sensitive personal data final rule
Final rule restricting certain transactions involving U.S. sensitive personal data and government-related data with countries of concern.
Wide scrub, curated publication.
Civic discovery
36 raw civic signals were fetched on 2026-05-20T04:01:09Z. Raw results are treated as discovery, then normalized before publication.
Official-source bias
Published entries prefer state legislature, agency, Federal Register, Congress.gov, or official bill text. Tracker sources are marked where the official source is still being resolved.
Caregiving scope
The map is about non-clinical caregiving AI. Clinical, therapeutic, and health-data rules are included when they shape expectations for support systems used by vulnerable people over time.
Update posture
This is designed as a monitored policy layer. New civic sweeps should feed a review queue before the public map changes tier or status.
Proposed direct bills are kept visible even before enactment because they show where states are defining the risk perimeter.
Pennsylvania PA
Pennsylvania proposals cover chatbot disclosures and minor-focused AI chatbot safeguards.
New Jersey NJ
New Jersey has proposed legislation focused on therapeutic chatbots and social AI companions.
Kansas KS
Kansas has 2026 companion AI chatbot legislation in the proposal layer.
Virginia VA
Virginia proposed an Artificial Intelligence Companion Chatbots and Minors Act in 2026.
North Carolina NC
North Carolina has a tracked 2026 AI chatbot proposal in the public review layer.
Hawaii HI
Hawaii introduced AI disclosure legislation tracked as adjacent to chatbot transparency.
Florida FL
Florida has 2026 companion chatbot legislation focused on platform notice, age verification, protocols, and civil actions.