SF 3098 Minnesota Senate · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Prohibition from using artificial intelligence to dynamically set product prices

Minnesota Senate Bill SF 3098 prohibits businesses from using artificial intelligence to adjust product prices in real time based on factors like competitor prices, customer behavior, or inventory levels. It directly affects retailers and online sellers that currently use AI-driven dynamic pricing systems. The bill defines artificial intelligence broadly as systems that generate outputs to influence environments and bans AI from setting or controlling prices dynamically. Enforcement would be handled by the attorney general under existing consumer protection laws (Minnesota Statutes, section 8.31). The measure aims to prevent AI from enabling rapid, opaque price changes that could disadvantage consumers.

Issues: ✗ Technology

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Mar 27, 2025 Last action Mar 18, 2026

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Introduction → 1st Engrossment · 5 edits · Mar 18, 2026

MODERATE

The bill was significantly expanded from a single provision banning AI-based dynamic pricing to a comprehensive consumer protection law prohibiting surveillance-based discrimination in both pricing and wages. The new version introduces extensive definitions for terms like 'biometrics' and 'surveillance data' and establishes specific exemptions for insurers and certain worker classifications. It also mandates that businesses using automated decision-making must publish procedures allowing consumers and workers to challenge data accuracy.

Scope change

The bill's scope broadened from solely regulating product pricing algorithms to also regulating wage setting algorithms, covering both consumers and workers.

SCOPE

Added prohibitions against using automated systems to set individualized wages based on surveillance data.

DEFINITION

Introduced new definitions for 'automated decision system', 'behaviors', 'biometrics', 'surveillance data', and 'worker' to clarify the law's reach.

REQUIREMENT

Required businesses using automated pricing or wage systems to publish procedures for data accuracy and allow individuals to challenge decisions.

ENFORCEMENT

Established legal presumptions that make it easier for plaintiffs to prove violations when different prices or wages are offered for the same product or task.

ELIGIBILITY

Created specific exemptions for insurers using risk-relevant data and for employers refusing to hire individuals with no prior work history.

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Committee

Mar 18, 2026

Committee

Comm report: Amended, No recommendation, re-referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection

upper

Feb 26, 2026

Committee

Withdrawn and re-referred to Judiciary and Public Safety

upper

Mar 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection

upper

Mar 27, 2025

Introduced

Introduction and first reading

upper

1 primary · 2 co-sponsors