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91st General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HSB 611: Establishing requirements and guidelines for chatbots, making appropriations, and providing civil penalties

Became HF 2507 · Its progress continues under the new number.

What it does

This bill establishes requirements and guidelines for chatbots. _____ application, and that accepts open-ended, natural-language, or multimodal user input and produces adaptive or context-responsive output. The bill also details an exception when a service or application is not a “chatbot”. The bill prohibits a person from designing, developing, or making a chatbot available with the knowledge, or with reckless disregard for the possibility, that the chatbot encourages, promotes, or coerces a user to commit suicide, perform acts of self-injury, or perform acts of physical or sexual violence on humans or animals.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

House subcommittee · named January 26, 2026

  • Rep. Austin Harris (R) · austin.harris@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Dan Gehlbach (R) · dan.gehlbach@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell (D) · beth.wessel-kroeschell@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 16 for, 0 against

For: AARP Iowa; Classroom Clinic; Google LLC and its Affiliates; Iowa Association of Area Agencies on Aging; Iowa Association of Rural Health Clinics; Iowa Behavioral Health Association (IBHA); Iowa Catholic Conference; Iowa Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners; Iowa Integrated Health Planning and Advisory Council; Iowa Mental Health Advocacy; Iowa Mental Health Counselors Association; Iowa Nurse Practitioners Society; and 4 more

In plain words

  1. January 22, 2026Filed in the House and sent to the Health and Human Services committee
  2. January 22, 2026House subcommittee named: Harris, Gehlbach and Turek
  3. January 26, 2026House subcommittee named: Harris, Gehlbach and Wessel-Kroeschell
  4. January 28, 2026Subcommittee recommended passing it
  5. February 10, 2026Approved by the House committee
  6. February 10, 2026Committee vote: 21–0
  7. February 16, 2026Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 2507

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/91/HSB611