Law / United States / 
Utah
HB 452 (2025), mental health chatbot disclosure
In force since .
An AI transparency rule binding private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- User location
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Have the chatbot clearly and conspicuously disclose that it is artificial intelligence and not human, if it simulates the kind of confidential conversation a licensed mental health therapist would have
- Disclose before the user can access the chatbot's features
- Disclose again at the start of any interaction following seven days of non-use
- Disclose again any time the user asks whether AI is being used
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MEASURE 2.8Risks associated with transparency and accountability – as identified in the MAP function – are examined and documented.
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
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- When does a reasonable person believe that a chatbot "can or will provide mental health therapy or help a user manage or treat mental health conditions" under Utah Code 13-72a-101(10)(a)(ii), where the supplier makes no such representation?
- Does a chatbot that mixes scripted prompts with generated replies fall within the exclusion for artificial intelligence technology that only "provides scripted output" under Utah Code 13-72a-101(10)(b)(i)?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
The disclosure duty names no record. It requires the chatbot to disclose its artificial nature at set points in an interaction, and states no duty for the supplier to create, keep, or produce a log of a disclosure or of an interaction.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
A supplier of a mental health chatbot, an AI system that simulates the kind of confidential conversation a licensed mental health therapist would have and that the supplier represents or a reasonable person would believe can provide therapy, must cause the chatbot to clearly and conspicuously disclose it is artificial intelligence and not human.
The disclosure must occur before the user can access the chatbot's features, at the start of any interaction after seven days of non-use, and any time the user asks whether AI is being used. This duty is proactive and recurring, materially stronger than the general Chapter 77 duty, and unamended since enactment even though adjoining definitions and enforcement sections were touched in the 2026 session.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app deploys a mental-health chatbot.
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