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SF 2417 Iowa Senate · 2025-2026 Regular Session

A bill for an act establishing requirements and guidelines for conversational AI services, and providing civil penalties, and including applicability provisions.

Iowa's SF 2417 establishes rules for conversational AI services - like chatbots that simulate human interaction - to protect users, especially minors. It requires operators to clearly disclose when users interact with AI (not humans), prevent harmful content (such as sexually explicit material or false romantic interactions), and provide privacy tools for minors and their parents. The law also mandates suicide crisis response protocols and bans AI from misleadingly claiming to offer professional mental health services. Violations can result in civil penalties up to $500,000 per operator, enforced by the Attorney General, with the law taking effect July 1, 2027.
Issues: ✓ TechnologySupports TechnologyMandates AI disclosure, prevents harmful content, provides minors' privacy tools, and requires suicide protocols - aligns with consumer protection regulations in tech policy.95% confidence
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2026
Committee Review
Feb 2026
Senate Passage
Feb 2026
House Passage
Apr 2026
Signed into Law
May 2026
Introduced Feb 19, 2026 Signed May 2, 2026
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What changed between versions

Enrolled → Enrolled with Governor's Action · 3 edits · May 2, 2026
MINOR
The bill text was converted from a line-by-line legislative markup format into a clean, readable final version. The substantive policy content, including definitions, requirements for AI operators, penalties, and the effective date, remains unchanged.
TECHNICAL

Removed internal legislative markup symbols (dashes, page numbers like 'Senate File 2417, p. 2', and line numbers) used to track edits during the drafting process.

Added standard signatures for the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, and formatted the text into continuous paragraphs for readability.

Replaced the fragmented line-by-line text with a standard bill format that groups related sentences together.

Floor votes · Senate Feb 24, 2026

How they voted

47–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 49
Feb 24, 2026
D Democratic15
15 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican34
32 Yea 2
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
14
Key actions
4
Committee
1
May 2, 2026
Signed into law
Signed by Governor.
upper
Apr 15, 2026
Lower · Passed
Passed House, yeas 95, nays 0.
lower
Feb 24, 2026
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate, yeas 48, nays 0.
upper
Feb 19, 2026
Upper · Passed
Committee report, approving bill.
upper
Feb 19, 2026
Introduced
Introduced, placed on calendar.
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

No sponsor information available.