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Michigan
SB 760 (2026), Leading Ethical AI Development for Kids Act
Senate Bill 760, 2025-2026 Regular Session
Before the second chamber, dated , as of .
An age-appropriate design code rule binding private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
Where it has got to
The text described here is Senate Bill 760 as passed by the Senate, substitute S-1. That print is SB 760 (S-1), published .
Locally, this stage is House Committee on Communications and Technology.
The stage above is recorded at www.legislature.mi.gov.
Passed the Senate 20 to 17 on (roll call 66) and referred to the House Committee on Communications and Technology the same day, with no House action recorded since.
What it requires
- Applies to operators of an advanced chatbot, a generative AI system with a natural language interface that provides ongoing, adaptive responses, other than narrowly tailored educational tools and basic customer-service systems.
- Do not make an advanced chatbot available to a minor if it could foreseeably undermine the minor's safety, wellbeing, or development.no control in the NIST Privacy Framework
- Restrict data collection, companionship-simulating design features, and training the chatbot on a minor's inputs, absent written consent from the minor's parent or guardian.NIST Privacy FrameworkCT.PO-P1
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST Privacy Framework
- CT.PO-P1Policies, processes, and procedures for authorizing data processing (e.g., organizational decisions, individual consent), revoking authorizations, and maintaining authorizations are established and in place.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework, and in the NIST Privacy Framework, line by line beside each duty above. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionYes
Penalty structure
Sought by the Michigan Attorney General; each day of violation is a separate violation for purposes of the fine.
- Rule
- Per violation only
- As of
- Currency
- USD
- Per violation unit
- Day
- Per violation amount
- 25,000
Over one month of continuous breach, USD 761,000.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Michigan Attorney General
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Must a chatbot operator that has no age signal or age verification mechanism treat every user as a minor under Section 5(1), given that Section 5(3) says a user's self-identification that the user is not a minor is not sufficient by itself in determining "actual knowledge"?
- Does a chatbot operator owe the Section 5 design-feature and training duties before the attorney general promulgates the rules Section 19 requires, given that Section 5(5) says Section 5 "does not apply until the effective date of the rules initially promulgated under section 19"?
What it reaches
Age threshold
18
Covered services
Chatbot operators that make an advanced chatbot, a generative AI system with a natural language interface providing ongoing, adaptive responses, available to a user, excluding narrowly tailored educational tools and basic customer-service systems.
How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
User location, Data subject residence
Obligation class
Design code, Consent, Retention
Verification methods
Parental consent, Device signal
What it makes you log
Log retention
Section 4(1). Section 4 does not apply until the effective date of the rules initially promulgated under section 19 (section 4(4)).
- As of
- Basis
- Purpose bound
- Prohibits retaining
- Personal data collected to determine whether a user is a minor, after it has been used for that determination; it may not be shared, transferred, sold or disclosed to a third party
Logging duty
Section 4(1) lets a chatbot operator use personal data only to determine whether a user is a minor and requires it to be deleted immediately afterward; sections 4 and 5 apply only from the effective date of the rules the Attorney General promulgates under section 19. Section 5(2) tells the operator which age information to weigh in deciding whether it has actual knowledge, and requires no record of that weighing.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Would bar a chatbot operator from making an advanced chatbot, a generative AI system with a natural language interface that provides ongoing, adaptive responses, available to a minor if it could foreseeably undermine the minor's safety, wellbeing, or development, and would restrict data collection, companionship-simulating design features, and training the chatbot on a minor's inputs absent the minor's parent or guardian's written consent. Passed the Senate 20 to 17 on ; pending in the House Committee on Communications and Technology.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves under-18s.
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