SSB 3011: Establishing requirements and guidelines for chatbots, making appropriations, and providing civil penalties

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.

Senate subcommittee · named January 13, 2026

• Sen. Kara Warme (R) · kara.warme@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Liz Bennett (D) · liz.bennett@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Jeff Taylor (R) · jeff.taylor@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 13, 2026Filed in the Senate and sent to the Technology committee
2. January 13, 2026Senate subcommittee named: Warme, Bennett and Taylor
3. February 13, 2026Subcommittee recommended passing it with changes
4. February 18, 2026Approved by the Senate committee, and given a new number: SF 2417