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Health Care AI Act, AI mental health professional representation prohibition

Tenn. Code Ann. § 33-1-205 (Pub. Ch. 647, 2026)

In force since .

An AI sector rules rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class
Prohibition
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • Do not advertise or represent to the public that an artificial intelligence system you develop or deploy is, or is able to act as, a qualified mental health professional.

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

In the frameworks

NIST AI RMF
  • MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
NIST AI 600-1
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 1.5Safety Decision Frameworks
  • 3.3Access Management
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-1Business need and security risks written down and assessed before deciding to build an AI system.
  • 5.1.4-5End-users told which uses of the system are prohibited.

Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law

Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.

If you get it wrong

Penalty structure

Civil penalty of $5,000 per violation, notwithstanding the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act's general civil penalty limits; enforced as an unfair or deceptive act under that Act.

Rule
Fixed only
As of
Currency
USD
Fixed cap
5,000

What it makes you log

Logging duty

The Act's single substantive duty bars representing an AI system as a qualified mental health professional, enforced as a Tennessee Consumer Protection Act violation with its own civil penalty. Read in full, it states no duty to create, keep, or produce a record of any kind.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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A new section of the mental health code bars a person who develops or deploys an artificial intelligence system from advertising or representing to the public that the system is, or is able to act as, a qualified mental health professional. A violation is a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 and, notwithstanding that act's ordinary civil penalty limits, carries its own civil penalty of five thousand dollars per violation.

The act defines artificial intelligence broadly as models and systems capable of performing functions generally associated with human intelligence, including reasoning and learning.

When LexLint raises it

When your app profile says your app makes health care decisions or deploys a mental-health chatbot.

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